Developing an effective soccer practice session plan goes beyond running the same drills over and over again.
Depending on the age group and skill level of your players, it is often necessary to adopt a more specialized approach.
This helps maximize every player’s individual potential.
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Key moments are what makes soccer games so exciting.
Moments when a player executes an outrageous skill or when a defender makes a last ditch goal-line clearance.
Instances where a playmaker threads a perfect through ball, or an attacker scores a brilliant goal – fans of the game absolutely love those.
One of these moments is when a player scores an “Olimpico” — one of the rarest types of goals seen in soccer.
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Gegenpressing is basically the German version of the term “counter-pressing”.
For people who know what the term means in soccer, it’s fairly obvious how the name ties in.
The counter-pressing style of play has a long history of use in modern soccer, but we can trace its roots back to the earlier years of the game.
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Total Football is a tactical theory of football where every outfield player is not restricted to a fixed role or position, and involvement in ALL phases of play is most crucial instead.
That’s a very simplistic explanation… but we’ll get into more detail soon.
The key point to note at this stage is that the Total Football system allows for extreme levels of tactical and positional fluidity, like no other system out there.
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An attacking midfielder traditionally occupies the space between the midfield and the attack.
They operate in that free role behind the striker/s as a playmaker or a shadow striker.
Originally, attacking midfielders were the number “8” of the team.
However, modern soccer has changed things a little bit, they’re number 10s now.
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