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Team Play in Football

Team Play in Football

Jason Ryan

Manager, W

exford Senior

Football Team

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1. Team Plays

2. Tactics

3. Styles of Play

What is the difference?

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Who decides team plays?

Traditionally

-Coaches

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Who decides team plays?

Traditionally

-Coaches

Players

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Must Know Your Players

What are their strengths?

�Skill levels, physical, mental, tactical

awareness, experience etc.

What are their weaknesses?

�Skill levels, physical, mental, tactical

awareness, experience etc.

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“You do not just

tell them. . . . . .

you show them

the reasons”

Vince Lombardi

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Who decides team plays?

Traditionally

-Coaches

Opposition

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Opposition m

ust be studied

�What are their strengths and

weaknesses?

�Where can your team exploit their

weaknesses?

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Who decides team plays?

Traditionally

-Coaches

Conditions

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Conditions

�Significance of game

�Time of year

�Weather

�Venue

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Team Plays canbe

changed/adapted

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Implementation of Team Plays

�Decide what you wantto develop

Prioritise –Clear coaching points

�Clear goals in every session

�How will it be facilitated into training

sessions? Time management

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Team Plays

�Kick outs

�Using the full width of the pitch

�Using the big man

�Pressurizing defenders

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Kick Outs –Breaks and Clean

�Reacting to the breaks

�Clean possession

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Kick Outs –Breaking Ball

�Reacting to the breaking ball

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Kick Outs –Clean Catches

�Timing run and use of body

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Kick Outs –Clean Catches

�Communication

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Kick Outs in Summary

�Communication

�Understanding

�Practice

“Individual commitment to a group effort

–that is what makes a team work”

Vince Lombardi

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Using the W

ings & Switching the Play

�Skill or awareness?

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Using the W

ings & Switching the Play

�Skill or awareness?

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Using the W

ings & Switching the Play

�Reduce variables -Wideman

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Using the W

ings & Switching the Play

�Reward awareness-4Goal Game

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Use the Big Man

�No pressure

�Token pressure

�Real pressure

�Game situations

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Use the Big Man

�No pressure

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Use the Big Man

�Token pressure

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Use the Big Man

�Real pressure

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Pressurizing Defenders

�Time to reorganise

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Pressurizing Defenders

�Remove distractions

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Pressurizing Defenders

�Game related

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Pressurizing Defenders

�Modifiedgame –End Zone

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1.What do you want to achieve?

2.Why is it important?

3.How will you implement it?

4.When will you practice it?

5.Who will be involved?

Checklist for Coaches?

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“The challenge for the coach

is to create the right

environment for learning to

occur.”

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Thank you