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Full Season Training

Program
A complete season of training sessions from Barry Gorman and the
Penn State Soccer team

by
Lawrence Fine

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FOREWARD
Coaching championship teams is a challenging and sometimes arduous task. As coaches of teams we are able to experience the highest
of highs and the lowest of lows. One of the main challenges to our profession is to develop and implement training programs that
keep long-term goals as a target, but allow for short-term improvement and flexibility as we train our teams game to game. Programs
such as these are designed through trial and error, and credence has to be given to the experienced coaches who have developed
and refined their programs over many years. One such coach is my friend and colleague Barry Gorman of Penn State University.
The more experienced I have become as a college coach the more I appreciate the work that Barry does with the Nittany Lions.

I have known, worked with, and competed against Barry for many years, and his knowledge of the game is
unsurpassed. Barry’s vast experience as a player combined with his extensive coaching background gives him a unique
perspective on our game. Coach Gorman is not only a great coach, but also a gifted teacher of the game, and how to
coach it. Barry is currently the President and senior coaching staff member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of
A m e r i c a . Th i s p o s i t i o n re q u i re s h i m t o o v e r s e e t h e l a rg e s t c o a c h i n g e d u c a t i o n p ro g r a m i n t h e
c o u n t r y. B a r r y i s a p r o v e n l e a d e r i n c o a c h i n g a n d c o a c h i n g e d u c a t i o n i n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s .

This book is a must for any serious soccer library. From start to finish you will find valuable information on how a season
unfolds and how as a coach we can respond. Barry brings all of his experience and knowledge and shares it with you in
this book. This book can be used as a good guide of how to plan your season, as well as give valued information on practice
and game strategy. Inside this book is the story of a team and their season and   a unique look at their coach, and how he
reacted to the ups and downs. I found it to be both interesting and informative, and I know it will be the same for you.

As people and coaches we are the sum of our experiences. In this journal Barry has done us all a favor by sharing his experience with all of us!

Schellas Hyndman
Head Coach, SMU Soccer

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PRE-SEASON

A1 Attacking Player Path of Player Path of Dribble

D1 Defending Player Path of Ball Target Area

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Tuesday, August 14 - AM
Players always arrive and are properly dressed at least 15 minutes before training begins to begin their individual warm up. They run and stretch on their own
with an emphasis on what their particular needs are.

Diagram 1
At 10:00 am the captains lead them on a 20-minute run and stretch in
two lines. This basically consists of forward jogging, side to side, knees
up, kicking their butts etc with stretching built in after each activity.
Not only does this allow the players to get their bodies warmed up
properly, but it also allows the captains to establish early on who are
the leaders. The coaches stay out of this completely to see how things
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run and also to see who will be the followers.

One line of players puts on black pinnies and the other stays in white.
Each black player gets a ball and partners up with a white. In a 40 x
30-yard grid the partners jog around and pass the ball to each other
with an emphasis on proper pacing of passes and also change of pace in
the runs. This continues for three minutes.
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Diagram 2

Next, one team all start with the ball and they move around and pass
the ball to the other teams players and get it back for a wall pass. This
is NO longer done with the partners. Because of the number of players
in the grid (there are 28 players in this 40 x 30-yard area) the players
must really keep their heads up and communicate in order to make
sure they pass the ball to someone who is ready and not involved in a
different wall pass (keep in mind there are 14 balls going at one time in
this grid). This continues for two minutes at a quick pace and then they
switch roles.

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Diagram 3

The next two-minute period involves a similar activity but now the
black player starts with the ball, does a takeover with the white
player. The white spins off and Black plays the ball to white and
then black gets it back for a wall pass. This is working on dribbling,
takeovers, communications, wall passes and keeping the head up
because otherwise with the number of players in this limited area,
there are likely to be some collisions. This goes on for four minutes
and is done at quite a quick pace.

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Diagram 4

The last step in this progression is black again starting with the
ball and then finding white who plays it back and then spins
off for a double-pass (these types of patterns will be worked on
throughout the season). This also is done for four minutes.

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Diagram 5

Next, we break the groups into six teams (these have been picked
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by the coaches ahead of time). There are three stations and two
teams are assigned to each of the three stations. One station is
a 60 x 44-yard mini field for a 3 v 3 plus keeper tournament that
will take place over the course of the entire week. The reason for
these dimensions is that the length is half of a full field (we play
on a 120 yard long field) and the width is the width of the penalty
area. Since much of what we do consists of breaking the field
into quarters we try to use these dimensions as much as possible
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for small sided games. The way the scoring is kept is that a win
is worth 3 points, a tie is worth 1 point, a loss is worth 0 and a
shutout is worth 6 additional points.
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Diagram 6
At the end of the week, if there is a tie, the tiebreaker is total points
where each goal counts as 2 points and each assist counts as 1
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point (this keeps with the idea of looking for combination play).
The one restriction on this game is that in order to score a goal
everyone (including the keepers) must be on the offensive half of
the field when the ball goes in the goal. This is done to keep the
players attached (too many keepers sit back in their six-yard box
and become shot blockers instead of getting involved and being
real goalkeepers). If a goal is scored and everyone isn’t over the half
44 Yards way line, it doesn’t count. If a goal is scored and a defending player
hasn’t gotten back into his defensive half of the field, the goal
counts as two!

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Diagram 7

The second station is plyometrics. They will do two sets during this
station.

The third station is a dribbling and movement station. Ten coaching

poles or cones (a coaching pole is similar to a corner flag but it doesn’t
have a flag on top and has a rubber top to protect players somewhat
from injuries) are set out in a line one yard apart (there are two
“courses” next to each other) and the players have to slalom dribble
through them.
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Diagram 8
Next, the players get to two gates which they have to play the ball
through and jump over (a gate is simply two big cones with a bar
fastened across the top and it’s approximately two feet high). Next
they go laterally through another line of coaching poles and then
they dribble back at full speed. The second time they go through,
they use left foot only and the third time they use right foot only.
Next they use the bottom of the foot only and the last time they use
the outside of their feet only. The key here is to not hit any coaching
poles and to go as fast as possible while being in control.

Each station lasts 12 minutes and the players can grab some water
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Next, is a three-team (Red, Blue and Yellow) 6 v 6 game with keepers.

Teams stay on for five minute periods unless they are scored on. If
red scores against blue, then red gets the ball again and attacks the
other goal while yellow takes blue’s place on the field and defends.
Subs are made every two minutes on the fly and each team is led and
organized by their captain. This forces them to work together both
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on the field as well as off (the coaches call “subs” and the subs have to
be made right then so things have to be planned ahead of time).

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Plyometrics
Plyometrics are an important part of a soccer players conditioning program. The players who do them seriously and correctly, tend to have a better
first step, jump higher and also are less prone to knee injuries. This particular type of plyometric program is recommended three times a week with
48 hours rest between each time. One of the neat things about this program is that unlike many other programs, nothing is needed except for a
line between 18-20 yards long. It is more important to do each of these things correctly than to do a lot of them. In other words, start slow and do
them correctly rather then rushing through them.

Plyometric Program

1. Slalom jumps back and forth down the line. Small quick jumps
2. Knees to chest maximum height jumping down the line.
3. Facing the line, jumping back and forth doing as many as possible moving quickly down the line.
4. Same as #3 but facing other direction.
5. Hop on right foot going down the line. Go for maximum height
6. Same as #5 but hop on other foot.
7. Long jump down the line. Go for maximum distance. Feet must stay together the whole time
8. Lunge walk down the line
8. Slalom run. Long stride, arc and jump. Must be fluid.
10. Sprint to end of line and back.

Use a line 18 yards long.

Do five sets of the 10 exercises.
After each exercise except the sprint jog back to the beginning.
Feel free to take a one-minute break between each set of plyometrics (each set, NOT each exercise)

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Tuesday, August 14 - PM
Players arrive by 6:15 pm and run and stretch on their own. At 6:30 pm the coaches lead a 15-minute run and stretch (similar to the morning session but this time,
the coaches are in charge to make sure the stretching is done properly).

NOTE: The following circle drills are done often throughout the season to work on various combinations. Diagram 10 is an illustration of how the drill works with
numerous ball being used at the same time. To show the combinations more clearly, diagram 11 and all future diagrams of the circle drill, just a single combination is
shown.

Diagram 10
Half the players form a circle and the other half are in the middle with a
ball. Players in the middle play the ball to a player on the outside (1) and
then make a run to receive it back with a wall pass. This goes on at full
speed for two minutes and then the players in the middle switch to the
outside and the players on the outside go to the middle. Repeat for two
minutes.

Next, the players on the inside play the ball to the outside and it’s one
touched back to the player on the inside who one touches it back to the
same player and spins off to receive the return pass in a double pass (2).
Again, this is done for two minutes and then the two groups switch and it’s
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Diagram 11

Next, the players on the inside dribble toward a player on the outside and
do a takeover and then the player who released the ball spins off to receive
the ball and then one touches the ball back for a wall pass. The person
who started with the ball ends up on the outside and this is done for three
minutes.

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Diagram 12

Next, there are only three people in the middle of the circle and only three
balls. Player 4 plays the ball to player 1. Players 2 and 3 overlap and
player 1 has the option of finding either player 2 or player 3 who then goes
in the middle and finds another three players to go with. While they are
doing this, there are two other groups going at the same time.

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Diagram 13
Next, same basic idea but now player 4 plays the ball to player
1 and then player 4 opens up to receive the ball back from
player 1 who then finds player 3 on the overlap. This works on
opening up the body, overlapping runs, proper passes to feet,
communication (there has to be a lot of communication to
make sure the right people are making runs at the right time).
The last step in this progression is player 4 starting with the
ball and then finding player 1 who plays it back and then spins
off for a double pass (these types of patterns will be worked on
throughout the season). This also is done for four minutes.

The last thing in this progression is for player 3 to then find the
other overlapping player (player 2).
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Diagram 14

Next, the players go in four lines as shown in diagram 12. The

line besides the goal drives the ball to the first person in the other
line and then goes out and defends. The person receiving the
ball goes and meets the ball and attacks 1 v 1 going to goal. The
exercise is done at top speed, it’s a quick moving exercise and
there is a good deal of contact (this was done to raise the level of
intensity of the session and to see who was willing to get stuck in
on tackles). The players switch lines (there are NO keepers in this
activity). This was done for eight minutes.

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Diagram 15
While the field players were doing the circle activity and 1 v 1, the
keepers were doing a shot blocking. deflection, angle, footwork
and conditioning activity. There are three goals (one real goal and
the other two goals are with coaching poles. Goals one and two
are the coaching poles or cones and goal three is a full sized goal.
There are two keepers in the goals and goalkeeper A is responsible
for goal one (and when he is in goal one, goalkeeper B is in goal
three). Then as soon as either goalkeeper A saves the ball from goal
one or goalkeeper B saves the ball from goal three, it switches and
the serve comes from the other side and goalkeeper B saves the ball
in goal two and goalkeeper A saves the ball from goal three. It’s an
intense game and with six balls from each side, requires a great deal
of work from both keepers.
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Diagram 16

Next, is a crossing and finishing activity. Set up on half a field as

shown. The balls start with the two central midfielders and they do
any type of combination play with the lone frontrunner which should
result in a shot on goal. As soon as they are done, the two players on
the left side do a wall-pass with each other then one takes it down
to the end-line and crosses the ball back to the three central players
who have made near post/far post/ 12 yard runs for a finish. As soon
as that is done, the same thing happens on the opposite flank.

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Players not involved rotate in. We put the best players in one group in order to get accustomed to playing together. Lastly, the players knock long
balls to each other in the air. This is simply to get accustomed to playing and receiving long balls. We play this as a game where there are two lines
35 yards apart. They work in pairs and if they play the ball across the middle in the air and the partner receives the ball before it bounces, they get a
point. If the receiver can two touch the ball back to the other player without the ball ever touching the ground, it’s worth 3 points. It’s a six minute
game. This session ended with a 15 minute group stretch/cool down.

Wednesday, August 15 - AM
Diagram 17

Self warm-up from 9:45-10:00 am. At 10:00 am there is a

15-minute stretch and run with the captains leading.

The field players break into two groups to play two

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3 v 3 v 3 games in 20 x 30-yard grids (extra players are rotated

in). Two teams combine to play keep-away against the
other team making it 6 v 3. The team of three players that is
responsible for losing possession becomes the defending team
and the defending team joins up with the other three players so
it is always 6 v 3.
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While this is normally done as a possession game, we used it as a way to work on pressure, cover and balance. We wanted the first defender to
step HARD to the ball and force into the cover of the other two players who are working with him. The balance guy is simply reading the play
from behind and providing balance. Once everyone was on the same page, this turned into a competition by having each team stay on defense
for a two-minute period and they would see how many times they could steal and disrupt play. The two teams possessing the ball see how many
times they could split the defense. The number of stolen passes and disruptions would be added together and then the number of splits would be
multiplied by two to get the total points for each defensive team.

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Diagram 18

While the field players were doing this, the goalkeepers were
working on a separate series. First they went through their normal
progression (sitting, kneeling and catchers position) and then they
did an activity where a server on the top of the penalty area threw
up a high ball (using a medicine ball) to the goalkeepers right. The
goalkeeper would go up and catch it and as soon as he did, a shot
would be hit from that side toward the far post. The keeper would
make the save and then distribute the ball by throwing to his left
to a player waiting out wide. This works on going up for high balls,
far post shots (and the appropriate footwork to make the save) and
distribution. Each keeper did this to both sides (there were 10 balls
from each side).
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Next, we added pressure in front of the keeper by having the waiting keeper challenge for the high ball and then get in the way of the keepers
vision for the shot. He also was there to finish any rebounds. This was done twice to each side. When this was finished, the keepers went and
competed in the 3 v 3 v 3 game as defenders. This was done to make sure they understood the defensive concepts that were being taught. All three
keepers worked together in this.

Diagram 19
Next, we went to three stations. Station One was a continuation
of the 3 v 3 plus keeper competition. Station Two was a repeat
of the dribbling and movement station from Tuesday morning.
Station Three was a 3 v 3 v 3 game but now going to a goal.
So, if team A starts on defense, teams B and C attack a goal. If
team B loses possession, teams A and C attack the other goal.
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If a goal is scored, the defending team stays on defense but

now defends the other goal. We did put in a midfield line (this
was played on a 20 x 30-yard grid). It kept the emphasis on
defending in threes working on the pressure, cover and balance
but now the direction had to be taken into consideration. Each
of these stations lasted 12 minutes with a short water break on
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each rotation.
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In the 3 v 3 game, a greater emphasis was put on the defense since that was the theme for the day. Since the original 3 v 3 v 3 games took longer
than expected to get things going properly, we didn’t have time for our last planned activity and concluded with a 15-minute jog and stretch.

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Players arrive at 6:15 pm and run and stretch on their own for 15 minutes. At 6:30 pm, the players are organized into three lines for a 15-minute
jog and stretch. At the end of the 15 minute period they play a choo choo race (yes that really is what we call it!). The first person in each line lies
down in front of their line and the next person jumps over them and lies down a yard in front of him. The next player runs over each of them and
lies down as the third person. This is a race to see which of the three lines can get all the way down the field first. The players have to work hard
getting up and down and running over each other and it gets quite competitive.

Diagram 20

Next, the players get into one big circle (they are still in their three
colors) making sure that they aren’t next to another person of the same
color. One Black, one Gray and one White went in the middle with a ball.
Now we do the same Circle passing drill as Tuesday evening but now add
the additional variable that they can only work with people in the same
color pinnies. Not only can they only pass to the players in the same
colors as themselves but also, they can only overlap a person of the same
color pinnie.

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This forces players to have their heads up before passing the ball (and since most of this is one-touch, it really means before they receive the ball)
but also the players on the outside must keep their heads up and constantly be looking around to see that they are spread out evenly to make sure
they can overlap a player of the same color in either direction. The way this worked on communication and vision and thought was truly amazing.
The same progression of passes was used as the previous time. As you will see, this activity will be used throughout the whole season with
different patterns and variables added in to try to create habits of looking for the second, third and fourth runners.

Diagram 21
Next, we went to the crossing and finishing activity from Tuesday
evening but now added in four defenders. The three attackers
in the middle go against the two central defenders to get a
shot hit and as soon as this is done, the two wider forwards
go 2 v 1 against the wide defender and get a ball served. The
other three defender’s now work together to shut down the
scoring opportunities (again maintaining the defending in three
mentality).

This was done for almost 35 minutes with two different groups
going to two goals and players being moved around as needed.
The keepers were really tested on their footwork on crosses,
which you will see in the next couple of training sessions. The
players stretched for 10 minutes at the conclusion of training.
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Diagram 22

We start with a 15-minute self run and stretch followed by 20

minutes of a team run and stretch and the choo choo game
as was done yesterday. Instead of one big circle activity like
before, the three lines from choo choo break into three different
circles. Each coach takes a different group and puts them
through their patterns. This was done for approximately 25
minutes.

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Diagram 23

Next, we continued with the stations. Station one is the 3 v 3

competition again. Station two is plyometrics and station three
is a conditioning and finishing station. This had three Coerver
goals and three gates (a gate is simply two cones with a bar across
the top which allows us to have balls played under the gate and
players to jump over it). Start with three balls on the side of the
gate away from the goal. The first player at that gate pushes the
ball through the gate, jumps over it and shoots the ball and then
jumps back over again. He does this with three balls and ends up
on the side of the gate away from the goal. This is a race against
the people at the other two gates (you also can do it with a relay
race where the person then has to sprint and get the balls back for
the next person to go). [Link]

Progressions
The player has to jump over the gate and back two times and then plays the ball through the gate and jumps over and shoots. Again, there are
three balls in a set.

The player jumps over the gate and back then over again and now climbs under the gate, pushes a ball through the gate and jumps over and shoots
the ball.

The player pushes the ball through the gate, runs around the gate and shoots with the outside of the foot (this is working on the technique of
shooting with the outside of the foot). If the player runs around the right side of the gate, he must shoot with his right foot and vice versa.

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Diagram 24

Next, is a crossing and finishing activity. The ball started out at

midfield (on a full field) and is passed out wide to an outside
midfielder who one touches the ball in to a central player and
then runs down the line. The central player plays the ball
toward the end line and the outside player serves the ball to two
frontrunners who are making runs. While helping the keepers,
it also worked on backs playing driven balls and the midfielders
on receiving balls and having their bodies opened up for the next
pass. We added the option that the outside player (or the central
players) could serve the ball at anytime to keep the keepers
guessing somewhat. Once this is done to one side it’s then done
to the other side. This was the last activity of the morning and
the session ended with the players stretching as a group.
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Thursday, August 16 - PM
Diagram 25

This was a full field intra-squad scrimmage between the first

team and the second team. It was 2 x 30-minute halves with
no substitutions except for at half time. Everything was done as
if it was a real game. There was no coaching during the game
and what we were looking for was the things we had been
working on. The first team did an excellent job of attacking with
combination play and did well maintaining the ball but there
were occasional defensive lapses. We were also unhappy with
the speed of play of the midfielders and that will be an emphasis
in the next training sessions as will keepers footwork and
distribution.

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Diagram 26
Self run and stretch starting at 9:45 am and then a 20-minute
run and stretch led by the captains.

The goalkeepers started off working on footwork for lofted

crosses to the far post. A server started out to the keepers right
and there were cones in the middle of the six yard area to show
them exactly the footwork they were to follow. The first step
went away from the server in order to get them to eventually
come forward to meet the ball. Each keeper took 20 balls from
each side.

Next, we added a shot from the opposite side to get the keepers
used to moving side to side. Also added were targets out wide
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Diagram 27

While the keepers were doing that, the rest of the players were in
three groups again doing patterns in three different circles. The
only change today was that the circles were MUCH smaller which
forced them to work quicker and think quicker. All of the patterns
stayed the same but the demand for perfection was raised
significantly.

This lasted 25 minutes.

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Diagram 28

Next, the stations were started up. Today was the last day of the
3 v 3 tournament (interestingly, it went down to the last game
with three teams still in contention to win). Station two was
the shooting exercise with the gates again. This time a greater
emphasis was made on not only doing it quickly but getting a
proper follow through after the shot. This was done by adding a line
in front of the gate that the players had to follow through before
going back for the next ball. There was a noticeable improvement
in the speed and shooting today over the previous days attempts.

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Friday, August 17 AM
Diagram 29

Station three was a passing and receiving exercise that was done
because of the previous days slow play. It started with two lines
10 yards apart (there are nine players in a group) with one ball.
The first person in line with a ball passes to the first person in
the other line and then sprints at them. The person receiving the
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ball must play two touch and if he receives it with his left foot he
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must chop it across to his right foot and then play it back to the
other line with his right foot. The difference was the speed that
was being demanded of the players and the fact that the players
had to spring in the exact path of the ball so if the ball wasn’t
chopped, they would steal it. The other difference in this was that
10 Yards real quickly a second ball was added into the exercise.
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Diagram 30

Now with two balls going at the same time, the players not only
had to chop balls sharply but also had to keep their heads up to
make sure they played the ball into space. ( DO NOT accept it if
the balls hit each other or if a ball is going to be played into an
oncoming player). This forced the players to leave their lines early
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and show for the player who was going to be passing the ball to
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them since they had to be in the space early to receive it. Next, to
complicate matters further, a third ball was added and now players
are really keeping their heads up and communicating because it
was difficult to figure out who was passing to whom. This is an
excellent way to work on vision, technique, conditioning (three
balls with nine players requires a LOT of 10-yard sprints). 10 Yards

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Diagram 31

This station ended with groups of three with two balls per group.
The players were in an equilateral triangle two yards apart and the
two players with balls were serving balls real quickly with their
hands for jumping headers. As soon as the ball was headed the
other player was serving. This forced the player working to do a
great deal of work in a short period of time and also work on getting
their bodies turned and in proper shape.

The last part of the session was a slow 25-minute jog and then a
good 10 minute stretch.

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Diagram 32
This session consists of the 14 players who haven’t made the travel roster.
Practice starts with a run and stretch together as a group led by the
coaches.

The one keeper goes off to work on getting down quicker for low shots
(simple technique issue).
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The 13 field players play 4 v 4 v 4 to goals in a 30 x 20-yard grid. Since

they now know what they have been showing so far isn’t enough to get
them onto the travel squad at this point, they realize they have to pick up
the play significantly in order to stay on the roster.
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Diagram 33

This game went on for 20 minutes at which point they moved over to

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the 60 x 44-yard mini-field for a 4 v 4 game called “Get Out of Here”.
Any time the ball goes over the side line, the team that it went off
of gets off the field and the resting team takes their place. However,
there is NO waiting for this to happen and the team with the throw
in should play quickly in order to try and get to goal before the other
team is set. A team also has to leave the field if they are scored upon.
Any ball that goes over the end line simply goes to the appropriate
team. The reason for this is we want to encourage players to shoot
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and punishing them for missing defeats our purpose. This game
works on communication and team work which is important for this
days session.
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The players then do 60 - 90-yard shuttles (sprint 60 yards and back and then 90 yards and back). They do it with a partner (so one works while the
other rests/times him and then they switch). They do three of these total (which is 3 x 300 yard sprints).

Diagram 34
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Next, we are back to the mini-field and now play 6 v 6 with keepers. The
only unusual rule is that everyone has to be over midfield for the goal to
count (including the keeper). Goalkeepers usually HATE this game because
of the amount of running they have to do but the truth is that by doing
this repeatedly, they get into the habit of supporting their teammates
better both vocally as well as physically.
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After a 15-minute group stretch, the session was over.

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Training starts with the same 14 players running and stretching on their own and then they go on group run/stretch for 15 minutes led by the
coaches. The field players were then placed into two groups. Group A, each with a ball, made a big circle around 12 coaching poles. Group B was
inside of the coaching poles that were placed randomly.

Diagram 35
When the coach says go, the B players run through the poles, pass to
an A player and play a give-and-go before running back through the
poles and finding another A player and doing the same thing. The poles
force the players to work on quick cuts as well as keeping their heads
up at all times. This goes for two minutes and then they switch. The
players go through an entire progression of one touch, inside of the
foot volleys, instep volleys, thigh traps-volley backs, chest trap volley
backs, jumping headers and finally receiving the ball on the ground and
chopping it with the first touch and finding a different player on the
outside who doesn’t have a ball. Between the two groups, this lasted
32 minutes and really was a wonderful workout. If you don’t have
coaching poles, cones work although not as well.
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Diagram 36

Next, we went to a game on the 60 x 44 mini-field where all rules were

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normal except there was a rectangle inside the field (10 yards inside
of each sideline and end line). Outside of this rectangle was unlimited
touches but inside was one touch only. The exception to the one touch
rule was the players get an additional touch when they steal a ball. This
game was done because the previous night when they were playing on
this field, there were too many touches in the middle of the field plus,
they did a poor job of using the width of the field. This forced them 44 Yards
to do a better job of spacing but it also exposed a number of technical
issues.

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Next, the players did shuttles. First they sprinted 10 yards and back three times for a total of 60 yards (everything gets timed so they work with a
partner and one times while the other sprints). Next, is 20 yards and back three times for a total of 120 yards. Next is 10 yards and back then 20
yards and back and then 30 yards and back for a total of 120 yards. This is done three times in a row. Then the whole series is repeated.

The session ended with a 15-minute jog and stretch.

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Diagram 37

Self run and stretch for 15 minutes and then a 15-minute group
run and stretch led by the upperclassmen.

Then in a 40 x 30-yard grid the players were told to simply pass

and move with 5 balls. The hope was that we would see some
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of the patterns we had been working on but unfortunately, this

wasn’t the case at all. After mentioning this to the players we
saw a slight improvement but they did a poor job of playing to
the correct foot and opening up properly. Because the players
still seemed to be a bit tight, we gave them some more time to
stretch.
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Diagram 38

Next they went to the circle passing exercise again but now the
big emphasis was on getting the body opened up properly when
checking to the runner and also playing to this persons correct foot.
The pattern we progressed up to was 4 plays the ball to 1 while
2 and 3 overlap. Player 1 passes back to 4 who checks to with his
body open plays a one-touch pass to 2. Player 2 then passes to
3 who then passes to 5 on the opposite side of the circle. Player
2 keeps his overlapping run going and checks to 5 with his body
opened up and receives the ball with his correct foot. One of the
reasons we are adding these new variations is to see who can listen
and learn.
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Diagram 39

Next, we went to a possession game. The field was made up of a 30

x 40-yard area with small rectangles in the middle. Team A has a
player in each rectangle (there are 4 players on a team) and teams
B and C are in the middle. B and C try to score by passing the ball
into any of the rectangles and receiving a ball back one touch from
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Team A. They play two-minute periods and then switch. This game
is played for a total of 24 minutes. Halfway through, we put in the
condition that the player who played the ball into the rectangle
could NOT receive the ball back but rather it had to be a different
player.

30 Yards This session ended with a 15-minute stretch and run.

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Sunday, August 19 - AM
Diagram 40

Run and stretch on their own led by upperclassmen. Circle drill with a new
variation. Player 4 plays the ball to player 1 and players 2 and 3 overlap
player 1. Player 1 plays the ball back to Player 4 who checked to side on
and he finds Player 2 on the overlapping run. Now, Player 2 finds Player
5 on the outside who next finds Player 1 on the delayed supporting runs.
The reason for this pattern is that the player who has been overlapped in a
game is frequently ignored once the ball is played away so if we can get him
in the habit of making a delayed supporting run (unless he has to stay back
and cover for the overlapping runners) he can be a very dangerous player.

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Diagram 41

This adds just enough of a change to the activity to make it that much
more challenging. Everything else stays the same. The Circle exercise
is one of the most effective ways to work on combination plays. With
two or three balls going at one time, there is a lot of movement, a lot of
talking and a lot of touches. The key is to keep making minor changes to
it based on the teams needs to make them better as well as to keep them
interested. Next is the jumping and shooting exercises. The setup is the
same as has been done previously but now, the jumps are done side to
side instead of front to back (meaning that before the players jumped over
the gate facing the goal and then jumped back backwards, now they are
facing the side of the field and going over that way).
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Diagram 42

Next, we went to a different version of the possession game from

yesterday. It’s a similar set up but now there are only two teams and the
players in the corners are from the two teams. There will be a grey player
in two diagonal boxes and a white player in the other two diagonal
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boxes and the rest of the players are in the middle. Now grey can only
score going into either of the two boxes which have a grey player in it
and white can only score going toward their boxes as well. From the
start, a three-person combination is required to score (meaning, for
white to score, a white player must pass the ball into a box with a white
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player in it and then this person must one touch it to a different white
player.
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On a successful goal, the player who originally passed the ball into the square to start the combination play takes the place of the person in the
square who now is in the middle. The great thing about this game is that we were able to see a lot of the takeovers, wall passes and double passes
that we have been working on. Midway through the game we had to remind the players about the whole defensive concept of defending in threes
and pressuring the ball and keeping it locked into one side. Once reminded that this still works, it became much more effective.

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Diagram 43

The players arrive at 9:45 AM for running and stretching on

their own. This is followed by a team run and stretch led by
the top juniors on the team (this is done to help begin the
leadership for next year).
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The players pair up (one in gray and one in white) with a ball
per pair and work in a 40 x 30-yard grid that is marked into 10
x 10-yard grids. The pairs jog around and pass to each other
while always being in different grids than the other one and
also the person who passes the ball must sprint into a different
grid.
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Next, the whites all start with a ball and while everyone is
moving, they use random grays to do wall passes. Now the rule is
they must find a gray who is NOT the gray who is closest to him.
Again, this is to get the players looking beyond the closest player.
Also, the players must make sprints into another grid after each
pass. This is done for two minutes and then the grays start with
the ball.

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Next, the exact same things were done for takeovers into wall
passes and double passes (double pass and variations off of the
double pass are some of the best ways to get to goal and penetrate
behind a defense).

The emphasis for all of this was on quality of the pass. The keys to
quality passes are:

• Accuracy
• Pace
• Timing
• Disguise

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Diagram 46

Next, the team is broken into two circles. Each circle has two
players with balls in the middle. The players in the middle
call the pattern to be done (whether it be wall pass, takeover,
double pass, overlap etc). This forces the players to start
thinking for themselves.

To make them really start to think, we started to put some

restrictions on them such as having to do a double pass
that involves a third person. All of a sudden, we had a lot of
communication and thought going on and they were able to
figure things out on the fly.

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Diagram 47
The keepers then broke off from the group and warmed up going
with a catch and then sitting, kneeling and catchers positions
before they started working on breakaways. We are trying to get
the keepers to stay on their feet and play big. The coach would
take a big touch in at the keeper (who was standing in goal).
The keeper had to make one of two decisions. If he thought he
could beat the coach to the second touch, he was to attack the
ball. However, if he could NOT beat the coach to the ball, he was
to stay on his feet and really put pressure on the coach to not be
able to get around or over him. There is too great a tendency for
the keepers to go down unnecessarily and to allow players to go
around or over them. This was done repeatedly until they started
making better decisions.
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Diagram 48
While the keepers are working on breakaways, the rest of the group
is set up in a 40 x 40-yard grid with blacks, whites, reds and greys.
The groups of threes in the middle are working by themselves. They
are simply working on combination plays within this limited area
making sure not to have any of the other three groups in the middle
to interfere with them. At any point they want to use or need to use
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a fourth person, they can use any of the players on the outside of the
grid to be their fourth. This makes the groups in the middle work on
combinations, keep their head up, and also look for the longer pass
to a person on the outside. The players on the outside are constantly
shifting to make themselves more available to the players in the
middle. They do this for three minutes and then switch with the
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players on the outside. This is done a total of four times each.
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Diagram 49
60 Yards

Next, we take these four groups of six (and add in the keepers) and go
to the mini field to play 6 v 6. There are a lot of stoppages during this
session for coaching points as we are working on shape and balance.
A huge emphasis was on using the width of the field offensively and
defensively the emphasis was on stepping up hard and attacking
anytime a player received the ball with their back to the goal they are
attacking. Whenever possible, there was a double team on any step
up as well and the player furthest from the ball on offense was left
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open. Teams would stay on for five minute periods and then rotate.

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Lastly, we walked through offensive throw-ins. While many teams don’t spend much time at this, we consider it to be an area that we want to
maintain possession every time. We do this by showing them on a white board what everyones responsibility is and then walking them through it
as well.

Monday, August 20 - PM

Diagram 50
The players do an individual run for 15 minutes then at 6:00 2 Yards
pm do a group run and stretch with captains leading. Groups
of two’s, two yards apart, quick one touch passing (using both
feet). Go hard for two minutes then stretch for two minutes.
Next is the exact same thing but now moving down the field.
Very quick touches. Next is volleys (the person going forward is
working and the server is going backwards). All the way down
and all the way back (they are going from one side of the 18
to the other) then they switch. They do the whole progression
of one ouch passes, instep volleys, inside of the foot volleys,
side volleys, thigh trap volley back, chest trap volley back and
jumping headers. Each person goes down and back and then
switches.
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While the field players are doing this, the keepers go through their sitting, kneeling, catchers position progression. Since they finish first, they work
on goal kicks then punts.

The top 18 players go through dry runs. A dry run is similar to shadow training except there is NO opposition except for the keeper. This starts
with 11 players on the field attacking a goal with a keeper in it. The ball starts with the lone keeper who knocks a long ball out. The opposing
team works on getting behind the ball, winning it in the air and playing it to a specific person. Then the combinations we have been working on in
things like the crossing and finishing activity as well as the circle activities get used at full speed to get to goal. The key is that while many teams
do shadow training or dry runs at half speed, this is being done at full speed to prepare for the game the next day. Any time the ball goes over the
end line for a corner kick, goal kick or goal, or when the keeper makes a save, the keeper quickly distributes the ball and it starts up again. The
challenge in this activity is to take what was successful in a small area previously and apply it on a big field. The keepers rotate into the goal to stay
fresh.

Diagram 51

The remaining players are doing shuttles (for future reference

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this set of shuttles is referred to as S4’s). The runs are done in

pairs with one player running while the other player is resting.
The first one is a 10-yard sprint and then back, this is done three
times to count as one. The second one is 20 and back three
times. The third one is 10 yards and back, then 20 yards and
back then 30 yards and back (that is one shuttle). This 10-20-30
is done three times. Then the whole series gets repeated.
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Then these players played small sided games on the mini field.
(See Diagram 51).

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The top 18 players finished by working on offensive corner kicks and free kicks for 20 minutes and then everyone was involved in a white board
session to review all dead ball situations. Group stretch to end the session.

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Tuesday, August 21 - PM
We played an official scrimmage against an opponent from a major soccer conference.

Wednesday, August 22 - PM
Diagram 52

Wednesday August 22 6:00 PM

There is an open tryout for anyone who wants to come out and try to
make the varsity team.
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There are 22 players at this tryout and they all go on the 40 x 30-yard
grid area to do some passing and movement. Just random passing
with whoever they want and then a short sprint. There are eight balls
for the twenty two of them.
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Diagram 53
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Next, the players are broken into two groups. One group plays 5 v 5
plus keepers on the 60 x 44-yard field (See Diagram 49) and the other
group plays 3 v 3 v 3 in the grid area (See Diagram 53). They do this
for 15 minutes and then switch areas. After this rotation, the top 10
players are taken onto the mini field to play 5 v 5 plus keepers and the
rest are playing 5 v 5 on the grid area. 44 Yards

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Diagram 54

Lastly, all of the players were put in groups of two’s and they were told
to knock long balls. They were put at a distance of 48 yards and were
told to do this with both feet. This was done to see their ability to both
play long balls as well as receive the long balls.
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The top seven players were invited to come to the team training at 3:00
pm on Thursday and the others were invited back to try again Thursday
at 6:00 pm.

30 Yards Group stretch to finish.

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Diagram 55

Individual 15-minute run and stretch. Then at 3:00 pm 15

minutes of group running and stretching. Players play one of
their favorite games, a simple game called 2 v 2 diving headers.
Start with a field that is 20 x 10-yards wide with a goal on each
endline. Put a line down the middle for a midfield line. Team A
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starts with the ball and must stay on their own side of the field.
The players can throw the ball back and forth to each other or
even can run with the ball to the midfield line. In order to score
a goal, the players must head the ball into the opposing teams
goal. If Team B saves the ball (both players on each team can use
their hands to save the goal) they immediately go on the attack
10 Yards and try to score in Team A’s goal.
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Since the only way to score is with a header, the quicker the counter attacks happen, the greater the probability of scoring. When the opportunity
arises, a player might actually save the opponents shot with their head in order to quickly counter with a shot of their own. To watch good players
play this game, you see headers, diving headers, two, three and even four consecutive headers in a row trying to score over the opponents.

This activity works on heading, heading to goal, clearing headers, conditioning, goalkeeping and is also a whole lot of fun. You can have your team
play a 2 v 2 headers tournament by having each team play each other team for a 2 - 3 minute game and keep track of the records.

There are two players on each team and you can have as many games going on at one time as you want.
There are six games going on at one time and they last for three minutes and then the teams rotate.

Diagram 56

The top 16 players now do the crossing and finishing exercise as

seen on Thursday August 16th.

We start by moving the attacking players in a bit closer to speed up

the whole process and also by taking the defense off the field to get
some success. Once the runs are shown to be made properly, we put
four defenders on the field and now the big emphasis for them is to
step up quickly once a ball is cleared as well as to step up anytime a
player receives the ball with his back turned. A coach is specifically
assigned to the defense to get them moving together and working
together when they step up.

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Diagram 57
The top 16 players now do shadow training with an emphasis
on defense. This is done by putting 11 players on the field
and then having the others move around the field and knock
balls to each other. The 11 are asked to work at full speed.

The team plays a flat back four and three midfielders in a

diamond in the middle, so from a defensive perspective, we
need much movement and shifting in order to make sure
everyone is accounted for. Even though we play a zonal
defense, the basic philosophy is always to either go to the
ball or mark a person. So, if the defender is not going to the
ball, he must find a player in his zone or shift his zone over to
mark another player.
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In this shadow play, we force from the outside to the middle because the middle is where the strength of this team is.

This shadow play is different than most as it is done at full speed (although with a number of breaks for coaching points).

After the shadow play, we bring everyone in for a white board session of both offensive and defensive corner kicks and then walk through them on
the practice field.

Diagram 58

Three of the forwards go with the keepers to work on their

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finishing.

There is an arc put around the goal with a three yard radius and
then 16 balls are placed with two servers around 22 yards out
with a shooter on the top of the 18-yard area. Balls get played
into the shooter at a very quick pace and he has to turn and
shoot. The key for the keeper is that he MUST be outside the arc
to make the save. The keepers rotate and the shooters take 16
hard shots in a row. Each went through this three times (total
of 48 shots). Then the shooters receive the ball on their chests
and turn and shoot (16 again). This is done for three sets and
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Diagram 59

Next, the servers go out wide (the forwards leave) and a third
server is now on the top of the D. This time there are six balls
with each side server and 12 with the middle server. The server
on the right starts off with a hard volley at the near post. Again,
the keeper has to be outside the arc in order to play big, he then
retreats back into his goal and comes out to cut off the angle from
the middle server who is chipping. The keeper must be outside
the arc when the ball is served and can make the save either by
coming forward and getting to it before it rises too high or doing
a drop-step and getting back on the ball. As soon as the chip is
saved the other side server volleys a ball to his near post and the
process continues.
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The keeper saves a total of 24 balls (which is a lot of work) and then rotate. Each keeper takes 4 turns of this and then gets a good stretch. This
keeper session involves a lot of coming out to meet the ball and making themselves bigger. It also was designed to make them work harder and
longer than they wanted as part of the toughening up process

6.00 pm - Tryouts
This was the second day of open tryouts and was run the exact same way as the day before. All the players from yesterday returned as well as 12
new players.

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Diagram 60

The players go on a 20-minute group run/stretch led by the

coaches. The players pair up with one player in a white and
the other in gray and with a ball. They start doing wall passes
with random white players and everything is done at full speed.
After going through the standard combinations, we added
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in the issue of disguise and emphasized some more feinting

with the ball as well as creative passes (such as back heals and
outside of the foot balls). This was stopped periodically for more
stretching. The next feature that was added was the chip into
the equation so that after each combination, this forced the
players off the ball to do a better job of being aware regardless
30 Yards of whether they were directly involved in a combination or not.
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Diagram 61
Next, the players split into three groups for stations. One group
did two sets of plyometrics, one did five sets of S5’s (this is shuttles
where they run 60 yards and back and then 90 yards and back, they
MUST come in under 55 seconds for this to count). They do this
in pairs so it’s run one and then rest one. The third group worked
on footwork. They had four coaching poles then a gate and then
two more coaching poles. They start by dribbling through the four
coaching poles then push the ball under the gate and jump over it
and then jump right back over it again and then climb under it and
then dribble to the next two poles and do a figure eight around
them then do the exact same thing going back. They do this three
times; right foot only, left foot, bottom of the shoe, inside and
outside at full speed.
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Diagram 62 Next, the groups stay together and play a 6 v 6 plus keeper
tournament on the mini-field. Games were five minutes long. The
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only condition was that all players must be over midfield for a goal
to count. If any defender is not back over midfield when a goal is
scored, an extra point is awarded for each player not over. To create
a more competitive spirit, we played where the winning team stays
on the field after five minutes. Since the players want to keep
playing, this helps to pick up the intensity even further. There were
a total of six games played. The team that won the most games
got to stretch after the games while the other two teams had to do
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2 x 10-20-30-yard shuttles with a 30 second break in between the
two. Each team shuttle had to be under 21 seconds to count. Team
stretch to end.
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Diagram 63
60 Yards

Individual run and stretch till 10:00 am. Then a 15-minute

group run and stretch.

Team Handball for 12 minutes. Team handball is sort of soccer

with the hands. Players may NOT run with the ball, instead
the only way to progress the ball is by passing the ball to a
teammate. If the ball hits the ground, it goes to the team who
didn’t touch it last. The only way to score a goal is to throw the
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ball to a teammate who heads the ball into the goal. This was
played on the mini-field.

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Diagram 64

We next went to two circles to work on combinations. This time,

the ball started in the middle with Player B and is played to the
outside to Player A. Player B then follows his pass to open up and
support and receives the ball back. Player B then plays the ball to
Player C who then plays the ball to Player A who has overlapped
around Player B. Player B then take a touch or two and then back
heals the ball to Player D who then starts the combination up
somewhere else. This adds in the element of deception in the
passing (the back heel from Player A to Player D) which is an often
overlooked part of the game.

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Diagram 65

Next, we go to a four goal game to work on possession to penetrate.

The field is full width (76 yards wide) and 40 yards long. The
goals are 10 yards wide. In order to score a team must dribble
through the either of the goals they are attacking. This is working
on switching balls quickly and changing the point of attack. Each
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player on each team is numbered 1-7 and whenever a team loses

possession of the ball, the next person in order must take a knee
(meaning that the first time player 1 takes a knee and the second
time player 2 takes a knee). This means the attacking team is
always a player up in the game. When the defensive team wins the
ball, they may NOT go to goal until the player who had taken a knee
40 Yards has touched the ball.
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Diagram 66

Next, we go to the crossing and finishing exercise with some

differences. This time, from the middle, the two midfielders
simply play balls back and forth and then one plays the ball into
the central striker who lays the ball back to the other midfielder
who finds the first midfielder overlapping for the shot.

As soon as this player hits the shot, he steps out to his left and
establishes a double post with the player on the outside. The
ball is played into this striker who then lays the ball off for the
other post player to hit the shot.

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Diagram 67

Next, one of the central midfielders establishes a double post on

the other side for the same thing to happen. This whole thing
is first done without defenders and then with defenders to put
pressure on the players and also to get the defense working
together. Even though the defense knows what the offense is
trying to do, if they work quickly enough and are willing to take
chances, they still will be successful.

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Diagram 68
The keepers were working on playing big, conditioning, breakaways
and near post shots. It starts with two balls on the corners of the
six-yard box (NOT on the end line). There are also two servers on
angles with 6 balls each. The keeper starts facing into the goal and
does two knees to chest jumps while jumping up and touching the
crossbar. He then turns and sprints out and takes one of the two
balls on the ground as a breakaway save. He then quickly gets back
in the goal (that again has a three yard arc in front of it and gets
a ball shot at his near post from the server on the opposite side
as the breakaway was made. He makes this save and then does it
again. The idea was to do this one time but we ended up doing it
four times each because they wouldn’t/couldn’t understand the
importance of not letting up a near post shot.
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Diagram 69

Next, the keepers took shots to the near post and then chips
from 30 yards out. This worked on getting out for the initial
save but also being able to get back with proper footwork in
case they are chipped.

After this was over, the keepers joined the rest of the team for
the crossing and finishing exercise.

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Practice ended with some conditioning. Half the team did catch up runs. This is where the players jog around the field in two lines (led by a coach).
When the coach says GO, the first two people must take off on a sprint and run around the field and catch up to the group from behind. The coach
keeps the big group jogging at a decent pace and the players are really forced to sprint to catch up. Each player makes two sprints. While one group
is doing this, the other group is running the compass. This is where there are eight coaching poles around the center circle. The players are in two
lines and jog one time around the circle. When they get to where they started, they sprint to the first pole and then jog the rest of the way. Then
they sprint around to the second pole and jog the rest. They build up to where they are sprinting all the way around and then they jog one time and
are done.

Then the two groups switch and do the other run. The last run is with half of the group at one sideline at midfield and the other is on the other
sideline at midfield. Two player from each group are standing back to back at midfield and when the coach says GO, they take off running around
the field. The thing that has been added here is that there is now a gate two feet high in each corner. The players have to go over two gates and get
to other groups starting point as fast as possible. The first time they made the run, they had to do it in under 28 seconds. Next they had to do it in
under 27 seconds and the third time they had to do it in under 25 seconds.

This practice ended with a long jog and stretch.

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Diagram 70

Group run and stretch.

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Five minutes of random combinations and movement inside the

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40 x 30-yard grid.

The field players go and do a windows activity while keepers

work on fighting for high balls.

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Diagram 71

Goalkeeping Exercise
This game works best with three keepers of equal ability.

Start with two servers at different angles around 40- yards out
and all three keepers inside the six-yard box. The servers alternate
lofting balls into the 6-yard box and all three players fight for the
ball at one time. The players play a game to 10 points and the
only way to get a point is if they catch a ball CLEANLY (if the ball
hits the ground before being caught it doesn’t count).

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To prevent the keepers from coming forward too soon (which is a tendency for keepers to do in real games), add in the rule that if a ball ends up
going in the goal (either over the keepers or somehow goes past them, the scores get reset to zero).

Done properly, this game is quite grueling as the keepers are constantly trying to get better position and also having three keepers fighting for the
ball at the same time means there will be a fair amount of contact (keep the contact as the type of contact that occurs in real games but do realize
that on lofted balls in the box at high levels, there is a great deal of contact.

To reward the winner, have the winner take a water break once he gets to 10 points and then have the remaining two keep fighting. The second one
to 10 then gets a water break and the last keeper has to get to 10 by himself before he can get a break. This is such a simple game to set up and run
(assuming you have three keepers but if you only have two you can do it with them as well).

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Diagram 72

The windows activity is set up. The groups of two in the middle
each have a ball and are working together in combinations.
This time, they can only use a player on the outside in their
same color for help. They do this for three minutes and then
switch with the players on the outside. The next step is quite
s

difficult. Everything stays the same but now when a player

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on the outside receives the ball, he must play it to the other

person on the outside in the same color who then one touches
it back to a player in the middle from his color. The last step in
this progression is the first player on the outside plays the ball
to another color and he must one touch it to one of his colors
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in the middle who then does a takeover with a player of the
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original color.

Next, everyone goes back to the crossing and finishing activity from the morning. This time the greater emphasis is on the defensive
communication between the defense and the players. Everything is the exact same but now there is a coach assigned to the keepers, one assigned
to the defense and one assigned to the offense and the overall intensity rises significantly.

Group run and stretch and the day is over.

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Individual run and stretch followed by a group stretch and run led by captains. The captains have requested a second opportunity for an individual
run and stretch because of overall soreness and this has been granted.

In an attempt at giving the players a different warm-up and a different voice to hear, a different coach is assigned to run the warm up. Due to a
major misunderstanding, he did the same thing as we’ve been doing (random combinations in a 40 x 30-yard area and then two games of 3 v 3 v
3). The keepers warm-up and then work on proper footwork on backward dives.

Diagram 73

Next, the team gets together for a shooting activity. They start in
the same general set up as the standard crossing and finishing but
now, all of the balls start in the middle of the field. The two center
mids knock the ball back and forth and then one plays a long ball
to an outside player who then does a combination play and gets a
ball served to the three runners in the box. This is first done without
defense and then quickly four defenders are added. If the defense
starts to cheat out wide, the center mids can attack down the middle
using the central striker.

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Diagram 74

Next, we line up with three forwards just outside the 18-yard area
and inside of the width of the penalty area. There are also three
midfielders. The ball gets served in to any of the forwards who job
it is to knock the ball BACK to a midfielder to get a shot hit. The
objective is to get the shots hit from 25-30 yards out and everything
is played on a diagonal. Sometimes the angles don’t work so the
ball gets played into the forward who knocks it back to a midfielder
who has to play the ball diagonal to another forward to knock back
to a midfielder for a shot. Then four defenders were added and the
players really got after it to get to the ball first and knock it back.
The defense was working on shifting quickly and also on clearing
balls and getting out quickly.
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The last part of this progression was to line up in the normal crossing and finishing way and start with the ball in the middle and play the ball long
and either knock the ball back to a midfielder for a shot or take the ball down into a combination and shot or serve. This made the players start to
play the game instead of just doing a drill.

The last thing the team did was five sets of S5’s (the 60-90 shuttle) and because the players knew this was the last thing of a long weekend, they
really pushed themselves hard and had some of their best times ever (in the 47 second range).

Team stretch and then they are done.

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Diagram 75

The team went on a 20 minute jog and stretch led by the

coaches. The field players start off doing one touch working
going back and forth across the mini field. This starts with
players in groups of two with one ball per group. The players
are lined up across the sideline with one player on the sideline
and the other two yards away. They start passing back and
forth with one-touch passes and do this at full speed for a two
minute period. After the 2 minute period is up, the coach says
“Go” and they keep passing one touch back and forth but now
are slowly moving across the field. They do this all the way
across the field and then back. The objective is to get a lot of
touches in and NOT to get across the field quickly.
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When they finish this, they do the same thing with inside of the foot volleys (the player starting with his back to the field is the server and the other
player does the volley’s). When they get to the other side of the field, they switch roles. This is done for inside of the foot volleys, inside of the foot
volleys, thigh trap volley backs, chest trap volley backs, head trap volley backs and jumping headers.

Between each set, the players get to stretch again. While the field players are getting their touches in, the keepers go through their regular warm
up (sitting, kneeling and catchers position).

The goalkeepers then work on footwork across the goal mouth. The
way this was done was to have a server with 12 balls on the 18-yard Diagram 76

line six yards outside the line of the goal and another server, without
balls in the same position on the other side (See Diagram 76).

If the server sees the keeper giving up too much of the near post, he
shoots near post, if this isn’t happening, the ball gets played square
to the second server for a first time shot. The keeper has to step back
toward the goal and readjust his steps to he can get over and cut off
the angle as quickly as possible. The run is almost a U shape run and
is done with a quick drop step with the inside foot.

Each keeper did this three times from each side (it actually took
longer than expected because they were trying to go directly across
to get cut off the angle and weren’t able to get their feet set so we
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Just a side note. None of the keeper training takes place in the goal mouth. We have a special area just for keeper training which we can beat up
all we want. Even if we didn’t have this area, we would move the goals out of the goal mouth and would NEVER do this type of training in the goal
mouth because it will quickly tear up the field)

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Diagram 77

Next, the players all joined together on the practice field. We start
working on a forward and back attack. This basically means we had
three midfielders and three forwards and the midfielders would play
a diagonal ball to a forward and the forward would work on playing
the ball back first time to a midfielder who would either shoot it, or,
if he received it at a bad angle would serve the ball in to the forwards
who are making near/far runs and another midfielder would cover
the 12-yard spot. This was done with no defense.

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Diagram 78

Next, we add in more of a pattern into the attack. Two center mids
play balls back and forth to each other and then one passes the ball
forward to the center forward. The center forward passes the ball
BACK to one of the outside backs (his choice) and then this player
knocks a long diagonal ball to one of the outside forwards who can
do anything he wants. His options include, bringing the ball down
and shooting, knocking the ball back to a midfielder for a shot or
serving the ball to runners.

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Diagram 79

Next, we added in defenders (four backs and two midfielders) to

put pressure on the attack. The only rule is that the two center
midfielders must find the center forward before the attack can begin.
The way players rotate in on this without wasting a great deal of time
is the following: If a player is going replace an outside player, he
just steps off to the side. If he is going to replace a center player he
just kneels down on the field so he isn’t involved in the attack. The
kneeling players really don’t get into each others way and it forces the
players to be aware of what is going on at all times. If a coach is going
to be on the field during an exercise, he puts on a different color pinny
(we use bright orange for this) so that everyone knows he is NOT
involved in the play.
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Next we did S4-s for conditioning (10-10 shuttles three times, 20-20 shuttles three times then three 10-20-30 shuttles.

Training ended with a 15-minute jog and stretch.

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The players jog to the field and then stretch. Next they go on a jog and stretch led by the captains. The field players start off in pairs with one ball
per group. They are doing incremental juggling. This means the first person juggles once over to the second person who juggles it right back to
him, then the first person takes two juggles and plays it over to the other person who also takes two touches. They go all the way up to ten touches
each and then work back down. If the ball touches the ground or the incorrect number of touches is taken, they have to start over again.

Diagram 80

Next the field players go to one big circle with half in yellow
pinnies and half in gray. Two players are in the middle with
balls and they can do any combination they want but can
only work with people in their own color. They are starting
to get comfortable enough with this exercise to try their own
combinations rather than only doing things they have been told.

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Diagram 81

While the field players are doing the above two activities, the
keepers get warmed up and then do the three-goal activity. This is
where the goalkeeper has to protect the main goal (A) plus the two
imaginary goals (B and C) represented by the dotted lines.

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Diagram 82

Next, all of the players went to the crossing and finishing

exercise. The emphasis for the day was on the center forward
and a center mid establishing a double post presence and then
another center midfielder playing the ball in. As soon as this
was established, everyone is live. The key in this activity was
that other than mandating that a pass be played into center
forward before the attack can really begin, everything up is up
to them. One of the keys to the way we coach is to show them
a number of different patterns and ideas, make sure they have
the technical ability to execute them, make sure they understand
when and why to use them and then to give them the freedom to
experiment on their own.
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Next, we walk through all of our free kick options (without defenders) to make sure everyone is on the same page. Then we do the same thing with
our corner kicks. Next, we add in the defense and make sure all of the spacing is still working. We also walked through throw-ins during this time
period as well.

Next we went back to the previous activity, but on every change of possession, we went to live, dead balls (it’s funny but even though these are
college players and we tell them ahead of time that we are going to make random calls, they still get upset if they don’t understand the call such
as if the shot is hit over the goal and we award a corner kick). The complete emphasis was on the offensive dead balls (the first team was attacking
the second team at this point.

Training ended with a cool down jog and stretch

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Diagram 83

10 Yards

10 Yards
The players did a 15-minute stretch and run on their own before
training starts and then go on a 20-minute jog and stretch led
by the captains. Next, the players are in a 40 x 30 grid that is
broken into smaller 10 x 10 grids. They have six minutes to do
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any combinations they want with the one requirement being that
they have to have a 20-yard pass in the combination (this was easy
for them to see because of the 10 x 10 grids). Real quickly they
figured out the need to have either three or four players in the
combinations and this also forced them to add in a chip in order to
get the longer pass in with other players in the way.
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For the next 45 minutes, the first team was on defense (with some players rotating in) and the second team attacked. On every dead ball (shot, ball
out of bounds or just random whistle) the second team would get a free kick or throw in. Some small kinks were worked out in terms of setting up
walls. A huge emphasis was spent on throw-ins (occasionally the first team got to take a throw in and they worked on proper runs and spacing but
most of the time was spent on defending throw ins and making sure no one ever turned their back to the ball. While there were a lot of stops and
starts in this time period when the ball was in play, it was quite intense.

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Here is a brief run down of the pre-game process for a home game.

For a 7:00 pm game the players have to be dressed and in the meeting room at 5:55 pm. On the board is each of the offensive dead ball plays
(corner kicks, free kicks, throw-ins, etc.). Also a list of people in the wall (rather than let people guess who will be in the wall we assigned it by
position). For example, the first person in the wall is the outside midfielder from that side, then the attacking center mid, then the defensive
center mid, then the center forward and then the outside far forward. By assigning these roles ahead of time, when the keeper decides how many
players should be in the wall, there is no question about who the players should be. Also on the board is the starting lineup and this has been up
for a few hours so in case there is any doubt about this, the players can see it right away. A couple of notes were discussed such as the emphasis on
possession to penetration and patience and the need to keep the ball moving. The last thing that was reviewed was the goals for the match. These
were the following:

• Play Simple Safe Smart Soccer

• Refuse to lose and refuse to be scored upon
• Play what is on
• Avoid silly fouls
• Understand causes of frustration.

At 6:10 pm, the players get in the vans (because of the distance from the locker room to the fields, we have two vans to transport the players for
games). At 6:15 pm, the field players go on a run and stretch with an assistant coach, which lasts close to 15 minutes. The keepers go and prepare
by running and stretching on their own then having a catch and then going through the sitting, kneeling and catchers position progression. One
thing that should be noted is that this is done to the side of the 18 yard box to preserve the game field as much as possible. Next, the starting
midfielders and forwards play 3 v 3 in a 15 x 15-yard area while the backs work on serving and receiving long balls to each other. The keepers have
easy shots hit at them from a server and these shots get gradually harder and harder until they are really being challenged. This is done in the goal.
Each keeper warms up equally just in case a change is needed during the game. Next the field players do whatever they want (we consider the
warm-up to be a very personal time and let them do what they feel is needed to prepare. The keepers then work on receiving crosses from each
side and then work on distribution. When the keepers work on distribution, the field players may shoot if they want. The player who takes most of
the free kicks practices these on his own.

At 6:50 pm, the players change into their game jerseys and prepare for the announcements and the start of the game.

Game
Three minutes into the match, our starting keeper was knocked out (a miscommunication between two freshman resulted in a break-away which
the keeper saved but in doing so was kicked in the head). He left the game (he is fine now) and the back-up keeper stepped on the field. This is
the reason it’s so important for both keepers to warm up properly before the game. One of the signs of a mature team is to NOT let this type of
thing effect their performance and we demonstrated this by scoring on a corner-kick two minutes later. This ended up being one of three goals
we scored on corner-kicks (there was a reason we spent so much time on them the past couple of days). We also won possession of every throw-in
we had (which might not seem like a big deal, but the next time you watch a soccer game, watch how little possession is maintained on throw-
ins). We also won over 50% of the other teams throw-ins. The game was a convincing win (we out shot the opponent 19-1) but we didn’t achieve
our goals in that we gave up a late goal (admittedly with most of our starters on the bench but that doesn’t matter). The goal was a result of not
understanding a game situation (we rushed a distribution from the keeper and put a player into a 50-50 ball which is totally uncalled for in a game
where the outcome is already decided). It’s this type of lack of focus that will make it difficult for us to fulfil our season objectives. Also, we didn’t
move the ball as much as we would have liked. This could hurt us Sunday in our next match (against a much better opponent).

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Diagram 84

Training for the seven players who didn’t travel.

The players jogged to the field, then stretched and then the
most senior player there (a sophomore) led them on a jog and
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stretch.

First, the players play 4 v 2 one touch soccer in a

10 x 10-yard grid. This was done because of the lack of quick
play in the game yesterday. This went on for eight minutes and
gave the one keeper time to get warmed up.
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Diagram 85

60 Yards
The players started playing 3 v 3 to one goal with a keeper in the
one goal on the mini field. When the team that was defending
won the ball, they had to get the ball out past midfield (30 yards
out) before they could turn and go to goal. This activity was going
to move on to two touch and then one touch soccer.

However, the defense by these six players was atrocious and there
was an apparent misunderstanding of general basic defensive
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positioning so the change was made to work on defensive
positioning.

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Diagram 86
The players went to the grid area and set up on a 25 x 15-yard area.
They worked on 3 v 3 defensive positioning with the keeper working
on communication by doing the exercise shown in diagram 82, 83
and 84. This allowed the players to better understand the concepts
of pressure, cover and balance.
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Start by having the group working in pairs with one ball per pair.
Have the player with the ball start on one sideline and dribble all
of the way to the other sideline working on various moves as they
go. The second player would be backing off working on proper
defensive stance with their feet constantly moving and feinting.
At no point should a tackle be made and once across the field the
15 Yards players change role and return.
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Diagram 87

As a progression, the six players split into teams of two. Three

black players are on the defense and three white players on
offense. To start with, the three white players are stationery
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passing the ball back and forth, taking three touches. When
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the ball is in the center, the defense needs to adjust to form a

triangle, as in Diagram 83. This triangle allows the first player
to pressure the ball and the two outside players to offer cover
and balance. The offensive players are not permitted to go
forward, but must move the ball quickly to shift the defense.
15 Yards

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Diagram 88

When the ball goes to the outside players, the defenders adjust
accordingly. Once the defenders are happy with their movement
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and roles, the next step is to say after five passes, the offensive
players may leave their positions and try to get the ball to the
other end of the grid. Other variations can be included and the
game can be made as real as possible.

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Diagram 89
60 Yards

The players then went back to the mini field and started playing the
3 v 3 game to one goal again. All of a sudden the defense picked up
tremendously. This game is similar to half-court basketball where
the defending team has to win possession then take the ball outside
the penalty area before they can attack the goal.
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Diagram 90

After being at the field for a total of one hour, the players ended
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with some conditioning. The mini-field was used and eight cones
were put around the field. The players start at cone one and jog
all the way around the field. When they get back to cone one,
they sprint to cone two and jog the rest of the way. When they get
back to cone one, they sprint to cone three and jog the rest. This
goes until they are sprinting around the whole field. Once they
have sprinted the whole field, they have to continue and sprint
all the way around to cone eight and then jog the rest. Then they
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sprint from cone one to cone seven (going around 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and
7) then from cone one to six and continue like this until they end
with a full field jog.
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The reason for training the players when the rest of the team is gone is to keep them sharp so that when and if they get their chance to play, they
are prepared. The other reason is we don’t want them to be content with just being on the team and want them to WANT to be in the top 18 players
and traveling with the team. If they get the weekend off from training because they aren’t in the top eighteen it’s almost a vacation from soccer
and we don’t want them to think of it that way. Note: One coach always stays behind on trips for these training sessions.

Saturday, September 1 - PM
The 18 players who are traveling go out to the practice field at the opponents home and go for a light jog and stretch and then knock some balls to
each other. They then play some 4 v 2 in 10 x 10-yard grids playing one touch and then get a long stretch in. This is the end of the training session.
Much more time was spent jogging and stretching before and after training then with the ball.

Sunday, September 2 - PM
Game
Game today against a nationally ranked opponent. The team goes through the same basic preparation as Friday evening.

The team gets off to a quick start and goes into halftime with the lead. Unfortunately, we are not able to sustain the lead and end up losing the
match. The teams inability to maintain a lead and inability to understand that things need to be done differently depending upon location on the
field and also their lack of understanding of how to play with a lead (this is the third game in a row where we have allowed a goal while leading)
will be something that has to be addressed in training.

Another thing that affected our performance was playing in the rain during the second half. It’s something that we have to be better prepared for.
One of the good things was that we played in front of a large crowd and this will be good experience in the future.

This result is disappointing but certainly not unexpected. It’s a long season and while we always want to win all of our matches, we schedule tough
games early for the opportunity to see what we need to work on.

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Sunday, September 2 - PM
Diagram 91

The six players who didn’t travel jogged to the field and then
stretched and then took another jog and stretch. After knocking
some balls around to get loosened up they started in a finishing
activity. There was one keeper and five servers (including one
coach) each with two soccer balls. The player doing the work has
to run around the middle cone and receives a ball from server one
and tries to finish first time. He then runs around the cone and
receives a ball from server two and finishes first time. He goes
through all five servers and then starts back with server one until
he has hit ten shots.

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The players then switch so there is a 1:4 work to rest ratio. With this big rest, the players are expected to go at full speed and really push themselves
hard in this activity. After each player went through this four times, server three (who was the coach) steps out and now it’s the same thing but this
time, the balls are chipped in and the player has the option of either finishing with one or two touches. The big emphasis was putting every shot on
goal. With one less server each server now serves three balls each.

The players did this three times each.

Next they played 1 v 1 to goal. There are two servers 30 yards out
as shown in diagram 87. Player A is on offense for 10 attacks and Diagram 92

Player B is on defense. Player A checks away and can receive the

ball from either server and go to goal. The players work VERY hard
in trying to get open and then in trying to beat their defender. Each
player rotates so they get 10 attacks on goal and defend someone
else 10 times as well.

The training ended with six X runs. An X run starts in one corner of
the mini field and the players sprint diagonally across the field to
the far corner and then jog across the goal line to the nearest corner
and then sprint to diagonally to the far corner and then jog across to
where they started. That would be one X run.

After the six X runs, the players jog a lap as a cool down and then
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Tuesday, September 4 - PM
The players jogged to the field, stretched and then went on a 15-minute jog and stretch. The points of emphasis for this session is team defense.
Not letting people get behind us defensively and knowing that in the back quarter of the field we need numbers back and NO SILLY FOULS. It was
explained to the players how they have to think differently in the different quarters of the field.

In the back quarter, the emphasis is on complete safety. Absolutely no mistakes are permitted and when in doubt the ball should be cleared
without hesitation. In the defensive quarter (the area between the back quarter and the midfield line) losing possession has to be thought of as
the same as conceding a good scoring opportunity.

The offensive quarter is where a loss of possession means the team is susceptible to a quick counter attack. One of the things that is important for
the players to know is what the consequences are for mistakes.

Diagram 93

The players go on another group run and stretch led by the

captains for 15 minutes followed by some juggling in pairs. If
a person makes a mistake, he does five push ups and then they
start over.

The field players get in groups of four. They pair up within their
groups and the two groups are two yards apart. This is a one-
touch passing activity and the rule is after they make a pass they 2 Yards
go behind their partner. The other rule is if the ball is passed to
them with the right foot, they must pass it back with the left foot.
Any mistake (bad pass or wrong foot pass) results in a five push
up penalty.

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Diagram 94
Next the same thing except now there are two cones one and a half
yards apart. The ball must go between the two cones. Since the
ball must be played with the opposite foot as was played before,
the teams can try to play the ball to the wrong foot of the other
person (this forces them to keep their feet moving and also to use
the outside of the foot). Next the players play soccer volleyball in
teams of two using Coerver goals as nets. The rules are that the ball
CANNOT bounce and it can only be touched three times by a team
2 Yards
(two by any individual player). At the same time the keepers are
going through their regular warm-up and then do rapid fire shots
from 15-yards out on slight angles. They see 12 shots and then rest.
This is done a total of four times each before the keepers start to
work on distribution.
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Tuesday, September 4 - PM
Next, we worked on defensive shadow training. The starting eleven are on the field and are working on shifting properly and also knowing when
to and when not to step up. NOT referring to using an offside trap but rather, knowing when to step up and compress the field defensively. One of
the mistakes teams make is they think that every time a ball is cleared out of the back, they should step up right away to compress the field. The
problem with doing this is that if they step up and DON’T have someone close enough to the ball to pressure the opponent on the ball, it makes it
much too easy for the player with the ball to play the ball back into the space behind the defense.

The key to knowing when to step up is when the ball has been cleared AND there is a player close enough to the person with the ball to put pressure
on the ball and to put their head down. By doing this, you eliminate the risk of the player on the ball finding a player making a run because the
player on the ball would have their head down as a result of the pressure being applied to the ball. So the key to stepping up in back, is when a
defense can put pressure on the ball so as to make it more difficult for the player to hurt them. The other time a defense should step up is when a
player on the ball has his back to the goal he is attacking and is under pressure. Because of his back being to the goal, he will NOT be able to get a
good look on how to attack. In short, it’s a good idea to step up defensively when there is a negative pass (a pass that goes away from goal) AND
when that pass is being pressured. Also when the player with the ball has his back to the goal he is attacking. All other times, it’s dangerous to step
up when the other team has the ball.

We also made sure everyone understood the two triangles on Diagram 95

defense. The first triangle being the defender pressing the ball, the
second defender, B and the player the second defender is marking, C.

The second triangle consists of the ball, the center of the goal and the
player the third defender is marking (the ball, the center of the goal
and D in the diagram).

From a third defenders perspective, he must always know where the Third Defender

second triangle is and make sure he is properly positioned within it.

Next, the team did a 60-90-120-yard shuttles and then three 10-20-
30-yard shuttles followed by a small 6 v 6 tournament (five minute
games for four teams). Practice ended with a jog and a stretch
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The keepers stayed for an hour of working on crosses (both near post and far post). The big emphasis was on getting them to relax and read the ball
and NOT take unnecessary steps.

Evening Team Meeting

This was a brief (35 minute) chalkboard meeting to review everything that was done that afternoon. Besides going through some purely tactical
points including making sure there was no confusion about the second defensive triangle.

The bigger issue that came out was two of the freshman backs who were having problems telling two upperclassmen what to do. Before any
coaches could say anything, the two upperclassman spoke up and told the freshman that for them to be successful as individuals and as a team,
they can’t think of a class system and instead, speak to them simply as teammates and they will respond in kind. Too many teams don’t have this
type of communication and as a result, these types of small problems fester and become bigger problems.

The last thing that was done, was each player was told where they stood on the team. The starters were told what was expected of them and the
subs were told where they were in terms of probability of playing time and also what they needed to do to get into the lineup. The reason doing
this in a big group is to make sure everyone knows where they stand and also where everyone else stands (again, this is a college team, I probably
wouldn’t do this with a U12 team).

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Diagram 96

The players jogged and stretched on their own and then went on a
15-minute run and stretch with the captains.

The players get in one big circle to work on some combinations for
a 10-minute period. The first one is a pass from the middle to the
outside (player A to player B), player A then shows for the return pass
and receives it and player C who is next to player B moves to receive
the first time pass from player A.

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Diagram 97
The next pattern is A to B and back to A while C and D overlap around
B. A passes to C and C passes to E. Players F and G overlap E. Player E
passes to D who finds either G or E .

Next the keepers went to warm up and work on crosses with simple
balls being served far post to work on footwork

The field players continue their warm-up with

3 v 3 v 3 play. The way this game was played was that one team
was on defense for 90 seconds straight and the other teams were on
offense. The defense gets two points for winning a ball and one ball for
disrupting a pass. They lose a point any time they are split.
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Next, we go to the big field and continue to work on shadow play. We started with dry runs with the first team attacking the goal (and no defense).
Their challenge was to use the same type of patterns they had been using in the circle exercise in a regular formation. After doing this for eight
minutes, we added in four defenders. This allowed the attackers (the first team) to play better, so real quickly we added in three midfielders. After
a total of 25 minutes, we switched to where the first team was defending and started right back where we ended yesterday (but without the many
stoppages). Now anytime there was a stoppage, it started with a dead ball or throw in so we could work on defensive dead ball situations.

We ended with two five-minute games. Each was with the starters up a goal with five minutes to go. The reason for this was their inability to
maintain a lead in the second half. We wanted them to realize what the right decisions are both offensively and defensively when in the lead. The
team did a jog and a stretch and the keepers stayed for more crosses and then some rapid fire shots (12 shots in a row real quick from a slight angle
with virtually no time between shots.

Thursday, September 6 - Game

Today’s game was a non conference game against a team within our region. The two things that came out of this match was the need for quicker
movement of the ball and also the need to work on shooting more from a distance.

It’s difficult to determine whether the players understood and were able to apply the concept of stepping up properly because the truth of the
matter is the opponent basically sat back and tried to defend (not terribly successful) so we very rarely had to play balls forward without a true
purpose at all times.

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Friday, September 7 - PM
Diagram 98
The players jogged to the field and then stretch. Then the
coaches lead them on a jog and stretch for 20 minutes.

Players start with a five person passing exercise. Four players

make up a square ten yards apart with one player in the middle.
There are two balls going at one time and the coach dictates the
direction. All balls are played one-touch. This is stressing the
four qualities of a good pass:

• Accuracy
• Timing
• Pace
• Disguise
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When they got accustomed to the activity a third ball was added. Players in the middle rotate after one minute

The starters from the night before go to the practice field and do dry runs 10 v 1. The two rules were there had to be a combination before going to
goal AND only five passes are allowed before a shot must be hit. This worked on playing better balls as well as shooting from a distance.

Next the five pass rule was removed and long diagonal passes were played into corners for a hard serve and finish. The middle players were
encouraged to play balls back to their midfielders for longer shots if that was what was on.

Next the starters play a sniffer game (a finishing exercise). This is a game designed to work on possession, shooting from outside the 18-yard box
and sniffing (finding the rebound etc). (See diagram 99 below).

Diagram 99
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18 Yard

The basic field set up are two 18-yard boxes back to back with a
five-yard buffer zone in between them. There are three players in
the defensive half of the field and two in the offensive half of the
5 Yards

field for each team. Goals can be scored from either half of the field
and only the attacking team can go into the buffer zone (the reason
for the buffer zone was to avoid tackles on shots since that wasn’t
what we were working on and there was no need for risking injury
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18 Yard

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Friday, September 7 - PM
The starters than did a cool-down, which was identical to the five-player warm-up activity. The remaining players played the four-goal game as
done on August 25 and shown in diagram 61. Next, they did circle exercises. In order to determine who could develop into leaders, no directions
were given and they were allowed to work on their own combinations based on what they person with the ball did. Next, they did three sets of
10-20-30 shuttles. They then went to the mini field for small-sided games (no keepers for the first half but then the keepers joined in once the
sniffer game was over. All the players joined back together for a 15 minute group run and stretch as a cool down.

Saturday, September 8 - PM
As the day before a game, this was an easy training session for the players who will be playing. They have a 15 minute jog and stretch with the
captains and then another 10 minutes on their own for stretching.

Everyone started in a 10-minute circle exercise session led by the captains. The only things they were told was to have a four-person combination
with a chip involved in the activity and it worked quite well. While the field players are doing this, the keepers go off to warm up properly since
they know that while dry runs and dead balls are relatively easy for everyone else, it’s quite intense for them.

Next, is 15 minutes of dry runs offensively with the starting team for tomorrow while the rest of the players hit long balls to each other (we consider
the ability to hit and receive long balls a huge part of the game even though we have a great emphasis on maintaining possession so it’s not as if
this is a way to get rid of the rest of the players but rather it’s a big part of what we do). After that we do 15 minutes of defensive shadow training
with the second team against the first team. The big emphasis is on shifting defensively and stepping up when appropriate.

Next we have a 20 minute game where anytime there are five consecutive passes it results in a free kick (and not necessarily from where the
five passes are made). The real purpose of this activity is to work on offensive and defensive dead ball situations and also to get a little bit of
competition going.

After this the 18 players who will dress tomorrow go on a 15-minute jog and stretch and the rest of the players do five sets of 60-90 shuttles and
then they jog and stretch. The intent of this activity was to make it short but sharp and this was accomplished.

Sunday, September 9 - Game

The game today was our first conference match. It was against a team that had some excellent performances in a pre-season tournament and
was one that we were quite concerned with. However, things started well from the very beginning and we were able to coast to a relatively easy
victory. The emphasis on shooting from a distance paid off with two goals (one from a great shot from 25 yards out into the corner of the net and
the other on a hard shot the keeper couldn’t handle and a “sniffer” was there to finish.

The decision making on when to step up and when to hold was much better than it had been previously and we were really pleased with our play
on dead balls (we scored on a corner-kick and a free-kick and defensively had no problems with their free kicks).

The one thing we have to worry about is the 32 fouls called against us at home in this match. The one thing I haven’t done a good job describing, is
that when we do any type of crossing and finishing training with the defense, it’s done at FULL SPEED and has a lot of contact in it. The problem is
that what we are allowing in training was called a foul in this game. This will be addressed in the coming week.

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Tuesday, September 11 - PM
When we got to the field, the coaches led the team in a group run and stretch which lasted almost 20 minutes.

The decision was made to keep this as a very upbeat session so we started off with Team Handball which is simply soccer with your hands. Players
CANNOT run with the ball so the way to progress the ball down the field is by passing to teammates. To score, the ball must be headed into the
goal. While many people would argue that there are a lot of soccer lessons that can be learned through this game, the truth is there are many
other, better ways to teach soccer. Next the field players have fun relay races with the ball (five groups of four). They started with each player in a
group 10 yards apart on a line. The ball starts on one end and is thrown soccer style to the next players chest. He had to receive the ball with his
chest and play it up to his head and then could catch the ball. If he can’t head the ball with his second touch, it starts over. If he successfully heads
the ball he then catches the ball and throws it to the next person who must do the same thing. The ball must go to each of the players and then
must go BACK down the line to where it starts. The first group to do this wins and the others do five pushups.

The next relay race was the same thing but now the ball gets thrown to the first person who chest traps the ball and then heads the ball to the next
person who does the same thing. The ball must go all the way down the line without touching any ones hands and any mistake results in starting
over.

Next they do the same thing but instead of the chest trap they receive the ball with their thigh and then head the ball to the next person.

Next, the players get close together and stand next to each other. The first player must play the ball through the other three players legs and then
run around, collect the ball and pass it back to the front for the next person to go. Each person does this two times and the first team to finish wins.

Next, they do some over and under passing of the ball with the hands and they have to do this while moving down the field 30 yards. So the first
player passes the ball back through his legs to the second player and while the second player is passing the ball over his head to the third player, the
first player is running to get behind the fourth player so it can keep moving down the field.

Diagram 100
While the field players are doing relay races, the keepers are
warming up with their sitting, kneeling, catchers position
progression and then work on footwork across the goal mouth. Two
keepers work at a time with one starting at the far post and the
other keeper is behind the goal by the near post. The server plays
the ball to the near post and the keeper at the far post works his
way across the goal mouth and makes the save. While he was going
across the front of the goal, the other keeper is sprinting around
the back of the goal in the other direction. (See Diagram 96). They
then switch directions and do this for a one minute period and then
rest of a one minute period. They then switch directions and do the
same thing. This was done a total of three times.
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Next, all of the players meet on the practice field and we do our crossing and finishing activity. Then the session ended with jog and stretch. The
keepers stayed 20 minutes longer to work on footwork for crosses. This was done simply by having two servers play balls in (one from each side).

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Wednesday, September 12 - PM
We started with the regular jog and stretch led by the coaches.

In a 40 x 30-yard grid with six balls. The players are instructed to do random combinations. One of the things we have found is that unless
otherwise specified, they tend to always go back to the most simple and common combination which is the wall pass. They need to look for
takeovers, double passes, overlaps, etc. more often. We then specified that they must do combinations with chips involved in them.

Next we put in the requirement that there must be a chip and a double overlap. Slowly, they picked up these requirements.

While the field players were doing this, the keepers were going through their warm up and then worked on saving quick shots from 12 yards out.
Each keeper took 10 shots and then rested. This was done a total of five times each.

Next, was shadow training with an emphasis on the defense. There were six players attacking in a 3-3 formation (three midfielders and three
forwards) and six players defending in a 4-2 formation (four backs and two midfielders). Then we moved over to the 60 x 44-yard mini field and
had a three-team 7 v 7 tournament with six-minute games. The winning team stays on the field. This got the competitiveness we wanted and
after five games we ended training with a jog and a stretch.

The keepers and three field players stayed for an extra hour of training. The field players were a central back and two outside backs. The central
back drives a ball to a player on the outside (he alternates sides), the player on the outside gets one touch to get the ball under control and then
drives a ball to the 12 yard spot (trying to bend it so it bends away from the keeper). The keeper works on making the proper decision as to whether
to come out for the ball or to stay back. The other thing the keeper worked on was when he received the ball, he had to get rid of the ball (either
by punting or by throwing) within three seconds. Our keepers have been taking way too long to release the ball in games and this was working on
them playing fast but not rushing.

Next, the players served balls in from the corner of the 18-yard area to make the keepers make quicker decisions. They caught the ball and quickly
threw the ball to the other side.

Next, the players took corner kicks with the difference being that they were taken from five yards outside the 18-yard area. The reason for this was
to work on the keepers decision making since the ball would get in quicker than if it was coming from the regular distance.

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Saturday, September 15 - AM
Diagram 101

This was the first session back after two days off. Everyone was
at least 20 minutes early for practice. They ran and stretched on
their own and then went on a 15-minute jog and stretch with
their captains leading.

The field players start with a circle exercise. Very quick, very
intense. The combinations changed every two minutes with
no breaks. We started with a simple wall pass and quickly
progressed to two double overlaps with a chip and take over.

With two balls going at one time, it required everyone really

paying attention to what is happening at all times and knowing
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what everyone’s responsibilities are.

While the field players were doing this, the keepers were warming up and then did some work over a gate (two cones, one yard apart with a bar
holding them together two feet high). The keeper would jump over the gate and then back and then do a forward dive. This was done three times
to the right and then three times to the left. Then they would rest.

Next, they did the same jumping but went for high balls. Then they did collapse dives IN FRONT OF THE GATE after jumping and finally they did
extension dives IN FRONT OF THE GATE by diving in front of the gate, it forced them to concentrate on coming forward on their dives.

Next, the team is split into two groups. One group does three sets of plyometrics and the other group breaks into four small groups for conditioning
and shooting. They have three balls, a gate and a coerver goal per group and there is a keeper in three of the four goals. First, the player jumps over
the gate and back three times and then shoots the ball and then goes for the second ball and repeats the same thing. They hit three shots quickly
(Nine jumps over and back) and then the next person goes. (See Diagram 98 Below). Next the player starts on the far side of the goal and jumps
over and back three times and then must crawl through the gate and shoot. This works on getting and staying low for shots.

Diagram 102

Next, a server is on the side of the gate and the player starts five
yards behind the gate. The ball is played forward and the shooter
must hurdle the gate, shoot and then hurdle back over the gate
and then do it again. This is done three times from the right and
then three times from the left side. After this is done, the players
who have been shooting go do plyometrics and the people who
were doing plyometrics come and do this shooting exercise.

Next, everyone goes to the practice field and play a 25 minute

9 v 9 game with the two goals on the top of the 18-yard area’s.
(See Diagram 102). The only restrictions were two-touch in the
defensive half of the field. Practice ended with a jog and stretch.
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Sunday, September 16 - PM
Diagram 103

An intra-squad scrimmage today but first was a written test. The

players had to diagram eight different dead ball situations. They
had to draw the offensive corner kicks from both sides, defensive
corner kicks, free kicks from each side, defensive corner kicks, throw
ins from each side and defensive walls. Plus they had to list who is
assigned to be in the walls by number.

The scrimmage this evening was two 45-minute halves under

the lights on the game field. There were no stoppages of play for
coaching points and everything was done exactly as it would be
done in a regular game. The two teams ended the week with a
group jog and cool down.
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The players go on a team run and stretch led by the captains.
The field players work on the 40 x 30-yard grid area and play a possession game. They played two games to 50 points with the losing team having
to do 10 pushups each.
With a team of 16 players break them into two teams of seven and then have two neutral players who are always on offense. The game is a simple
game of keep away so that if the X’s have the ball, they try to keep the ball away from the O’s. The rules are as follows:

A pass can’t be made to a person in the same grid as the passer

A pass to a person in a bordering grid counts as one point
A pass to a person in a grid two away is worth two points
A pass to a person in a grid three away is worth three points
A one touch pass doubles the passes value (which means a one touch pass to a person two grids away is worth 4 points)
A loss of possession results in a loss of one point
When a team loses possession, if they can win the ball back in the same grid, it’s worth one point.
First team to 100 points (or whatever you choose) wins.

Diagram 104
10 Yards
This game encourages players to maintain possession of the ball,

s
10 Yard
look further than the closest player and spread the field. It also
works on defensive transition (winning the ball back as soon as
possible).
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40 Yard

The hardest part of this game is keeping score. It’s MUCH easier
if you have two scorekeepers (one for each team). If you have a
couple of injured players this is a great way to keep them involved.

There are a number of variations you can add in including points

for combinations, having to play the ball in the direction the
player is facing when they receive the ball and much more.
30 Yards
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Diagram 105
While the field players were doing this, the keepers went off and
went through their sitting, kneeling, catchers position progression.
Then each keeper faced 10 quick shots in a row from 15 yards out
to just get them warmed up completely. Next, everyone met up on
the practice field and they were split into groups of eight (two had
seven) with one keeper per group. Each group went to a goal and
did a 4 person combination/finishing activity. Four players started
in a triangle and could do any combination they want to get a
shot hit from the top of the 18-yard area. Once the shot is hit (and
everyone has followed the shot) they reset and one of the players
steps off, a new player steps on up top and they regain their shape
and start again. Among other things, this works on their ability to
quickly regain their shape.
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Next, we broke into two groups of players (starters and “others”) and did “dry runs” starting at half field and going to goal with no opposition. The
starting group had two keepers and the other group had one. The two keepers alternated in goal when a goal is scored.

Next, the second team came over and defended against the first team. All eleven defending players were in the defensive half of the field so among
other things, this is preparing us for teams that do bring everyone back. The first team works on combinations and getting to goal. The way this
starts, is the ball is in the keepers hands and they have two target players (actually assistant coaches) who are targets out past midfield and wide.
The keeper tries to THROW the ball to either target player and the first team tries to intercept the ball and then goes to goal. If the defending team
gets the ball, they try to find the target players early while the first team tries to high pressure and win the ball back. This was done at full speed for
around 12 minutes and then we switched so that now it’s the first team defending the goal and the second team attacking. Again, this is done for
approximately twelve minutes.

Next, we brought a second goal onto the field and placed it 18 yards past the midfield line (this way, the midfield line represents the top of the 18
for this second goal). We played 7 v 7 with two neutral players who are always on offense. The game is a regular game except that we would call
random dead balls (direct kick, indirect kick, corner kick, throw-ins, etc.). The two neutral players are the two players on our team who are ALWAYS
involved in our free kicks (either directly or as dummy’s). In a 15-minute game we were able to work on every situation we might see in a real game
and were able to make sure everyone both knew them and also could apply them.

Next, the players were broken into three teams. Two played 7 v 7 on the mini-field and the third team did a 10-10-10 shuttle, then a 10-20-30-yard
shuttle then three 10-20-30-yard shuttles. The winning team in the small game stayed on and the losing team did their shuttles while the team
that already ran went to play the game. After all three teams did their running we ended by going back to the practice field and doing three 60-90-
yard shuttles

They went on a slow jog and stretch and then were done.

The keepers stayed and did almost a full hour of work. It started with 12 shots from 12 yards out on angles and then they rotated (only two keepers
were there because the third had to go to class). After each did this three times from each side, we made an adjustment by moving the shots back
to 25 yards out. The restriction was put in that the keepers could NOT dive to make the save (the reason for this is that they had fallen into the habit
that too many keepers have of not moving their feet enough and instead wanting to dive for almost everything. Each faced 20 shots from this
distance and then did the same thing from shots from 20 yards. After convincing them that this really can be done (a hard sell) they found that by
concentrating on cutting of the angle and really moving their feet they could make most saves without diving. We then went to more shots from
closer in and the improvement was tremendous.

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Wednesday, September 19 - PM
Practice starts with the typical jog and stretch. As a way to continue the warming up process, we start off with an eight-minute Team Handball
game followed by 12 minutes of the same circle activity as last Saturday. The only difference is that half of the group is in blue and the other half
are in gray. This means that blues can only pass to blues and grays can only pass to grays. Blues have one ball and grays have one ball. This forces
the players to really keep their heads up and communicate.

While the field players are doing this the keepers go to warm-up properly.

Next, we do almost the exact same thing as yesterday in terms of dry runs with two groups to two different goals. The big difference is that this
time, the emphasis is on finding the center forward who lays balls back to midfielders running through or works double passes and then run
combinations off of that. This was done for 12 minutes and then just like yesterday, the second team was brought over to defend against the
first team. This went on for eight minutes and then we switched and the first team defended against the second team. This also lasted for eight
minutes.

Next we went back to the first team attacking the second team and started calling random dead balls. This was working on dead ball efficiency
as well as field awareness because they had to know how to set up all over the field and how to do it quickly since we were demanding that
everything be done quickly. After 10 minutes of this we switched it around and the first team worked on the defensive side of dead balls.. This was
done for 10 minutes as well.

Diagram 106
Next, we go to a shooting exercise. There are three goals (we used
Coerver goals) with a gate and 6 coaching poles per goal. The
players dribble through the poles (they were set up one and a half
yards apart) and then push the ball through the gate and jump over
it and shoot. There are six players per goal and as soon as a player
goes past the last gate the next person begins. Each player does
this six times. Next, they do the same thing but now push the ball
through the gate, jump over and back and then over again and then
shoot. This also is done six times. Next, they push the ball through
and have to crawl under the gate to shoot. After 6 of these the balls
are put to the side of the gates with a server. Now the players run
through the gates without the ball jump over the gate and hit a first
time shot since the server plays the ball out in front.. It starts with
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work on volleys as well.

The field players finish in a cool down jog and stretch and the keepers move over to the goalkeepers area and face a series of quick shots from 12
yards out. First were 10 shots in a row where the keepers had to do a forward roll and then make a save and then a forward roll and another save.
Each keeper did two sets of these. Then the keepers started in the low part of a push up position and can’t move until the shot is hit. Both of these
activities were done to get the keepers leaning forward with their upper bodies.

Next, the server moves back to 25 yards and they again work on making saves without diving to emphasize moving their feet. Gradually the server
moves back into the 18 and tries to score while the keepers work on doing everything correctly. Next, they spend 15 minutes on receiving crosses
from both sides and end the session practicing goal kicks.

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Thursday, September 20 - PM
We traveled out of state this afternoon and arrived at the playing field at 6:00 pm. We don’t play till tomorrow but the idea is to get a short work
out in on their practice field right away (it’s a theory that we got from the coaches at Ajax. The basic theory is that as soon as you get to a city, go to
the field and get a light workout in so that you can get the travel (whether by bus, plane or car) out of your system. We also want the players to see
the field as soon as possible. Some of the stadiums we play in are very nice (much nicer than ours) and we want them to get the initial experience
out of the way so when it’s time to play, they are comfortable with the environment they will be playing in.

Training started with a 15-minute jog and stretch. Then the keepers went off and went through their regular sitting, kneeling and catchers position
progression. Then they worked on crosses from each side as well as from various angles. The last thing the keepers did was spend almost 15
minutes on goal kicks and punts.

The field players get in four lines (two opposite each other) and pass to the other line and follow the pass to put token pressure on the receiver who
takes a touch away from pressure and then does the same. Next they pass one touch and sprint to the line next to them (not following their pass
but running sideways).

Diagram 107
The next activity is done with the 16 field players. They get in
two teams (black and white) and four black and white get around
the center circle which has two U10 goals on the outside facing
each other. The other four black and four whites are inside the
center circle. It’s a 4 v 4 on the inside and the players can use
their teammates on the outside for support. The last player back
is the keeper and can use their hands. The reason for this game is
it requires quick touches and fast play and lots of vision. Plus the
players had a blast (it was actually very lively as the players really
got into it. When a team scores, the opposing team switches (so
the players on the inside go to the outside and the players on the
outside go to the outside. This game was played for around 20
minutes and then the players stretched and we left.
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Friday, September 21 - Game

We had a game today and played exceptionally well. We out shot what was considered to be a good opponent 22-8 and none of the 8 shots we
gave up were dangerous. The two problems in this game was our inability to finish (we finally scored with 7 minutes left to win 1-0) and also our
propensity to foul (we have committed more fouls than our opponents in every game and in this one it was 28-12. The only other thing we were
unhappy with was our poor execution offensively on our free kicks (we had nine corner kicks and didn’t get a good scoring opportunity our of it till
our goal).

Most importantly, we came out of the game with a win and no injuries of significance.

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Saturday, September 22 PM
Before training began, a representative from the MLS office met with our players to talk with them about what was out there for some of them in
the future. He dealt with the following subjects:

• MLS and single entity • Central Control - Player control, TV and Marketing
• Investor Commitment • Project 40
• Pro Contracts • Number of games between USL/MLS/Project 40
• Education $ and Nike $ • Roster Protection
• MLS vs other leagues • Where will I play?
• Do not chase the $ • Transfer System

Overall this was a very interesting conversation and the players found this to be very helpful.

Next we went out to the field and did the EXACT same training session as Thursday .

After the training we went to see a MLS training facility. The reason behind this to expose the players to what it means to play at the next level
so they have an idea of what some of them are striving for. The interesting thing about this trip was that some players were extremely impressed
while others were surprised that it wasn’t better than what it was and commented that our training facilities are better.

Sunday, September 23 - Game

Our game today was against a highly ranked opponent. We out shot them 19-5 and jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead. The key to this game was field
position (not something you hear about much). We wanted to maintain possession but even more important we wanted to keep the ball in the
offensive half of the field whenever possible. This goes back to some of our training earlier this week and we were quite successful at this. Also, we
were able to keep the ball moving and this allowed us to play well enough to win.

Some of the things we need to work on is improving our dead ball play offensively as well as winning not only the first ball which we are quite good
at but also winning the second ball as well. Also we need to improve our finishing from a distance.

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Diagram 108

Practice starts with the normal jog and [Link] field players
start off with 15 minutes of a circle exercise. The combination
was as follows: Player 1 passes to Player 2. Players 3 and 4
overlap around 2. 2 plays back to 1 who has supported on an
angle. 2 finds 3 on the overlap who then finds 6 on the far side
of the triangle. 7 and 8 overlap around 6 and 6 plays the ball to
4 who continued his run after the overlap of 2. 4 plays the ball
to 7 who then finds 8 on the run.
With two balls going at the same time, this takes a LOT of
communication and thinking

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Diagram 109
While the field players are doing the circle exercise, the keepers go
through their sitting kneeling and catchers position progression.
Then they do an exercise to work on getting their hands lower
on rolling balls. They have a tendency to get their hands behind

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the ball and not behind and below the ball. We lined up balls
one yard apart and the first keeper starts five yards from the first
ball. The second keeper starts 10 yards from the ball directly
across from him keeper 1 sprints to the ball and picks it up and
by getting his hand below the ball properly. He runs through the
ball and then places it down within five yards. He then backs up
to his original position and goes for the second ball. When he 5Yards 10 Yards
gets to the third ball the second keeper can start up and does the
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They each do this two times and then keeper 2 actually plays a simple ball to keeper 1 who picks it up properly and they do this all the way down
the line. Each does this one time.

Next, they hit balls hard doing the same progression down the line.

Finally, keeper 1 gets in the goal and keeper 2 hits hard balls right at him and the improved concentration catching these balls was tremendous.

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Diagram 110

Next, the players break into two groups. One group does two sets
of plyometrics and the other group goes to the grid area for some
shooting. There are four Coerver goals set up with a gate 25 yards
away from each. One player is to the side of the gate and the
player who is working plays a ball to the person beside the gate
and then jumps over the gate and receives the wall pass back for a
one-touch shot and then sprints back over the gate and does this
three times. There are four players going at the same time (one
for each goal) and it’s a race to see who can get his three shots
hit properly and get back to his starting point . Each player gets
two sets from each side and don’t realize that not only are they
working on finishing but also on conditioning.
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Diagram 111

Next, the player to the side of the gate moves down further and
instead of returning the pass for a wall pass, he plays the ball back
(the way a target player might lay a ball back to a midfielder for
a shot).

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Diagram 112
Next, the second team goes to the mini-field and play a small-
sided game while the starters go to the practice field and play the
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following game. It’s 5 v 5 with three players in the defensive half

of the field and two in the offensive half. The only way a player can
cross from the defensive half to the offensive half is if it results in
a shot on goal. Defensively, a player can NEVER cross over into the
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defensive half if they start up front. This game is to encourage a lot

of shots from distances as well as combination play from behind.
There is a 12-yard line which is basically used as an offside line.
44 Yards After a while, the starters switch over to the mini field and the
second team plays this game. Training ends with the two groups
getting together for a group jog and stretch.

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Wednesday, September 26 - PM
Training starts with a jog and a stretch.

The keepers go off to get warmed up. The emphasis for this session is on holding onto low balls. One of the things that too many keepers do is
make the initial save but not hold onto the ball and give up goals on the second ball. In some cases this means balls that should have been parried
or punched but other balls are ones that simply should have been caught and were mishandled.

The reason that some of these balls are bobbled and not caught cleanly includes poor hand position, lack of strength, lack of focus and not looking
the ball into the hands. Once these things are taken into consideration and worked on, the next thing to do is practice catching hard balls. The
bobble game can be played a couple of different ways.

The first way you can do this is to have two keepers 12 yards apart. They try to throw the ball as hard as they can and hit the other keeper’s feet.
The keeper who is having the ball thrown at him tries to catch the ball WITHOUT bobbling it. If he catches the ball cleanly, he then throws the ball
back and tries to hit the other keeper’s feet. If the ball is bobbled, that keeper gets one point (points in this game are bad). If the ball hits the feet,
it counts as two points and if the ball goes through the keeper’s legs, it counts as three points. The first keeper to 10 points loses (a bad throw is a
do over). It’s best to have a third person (could be a resting keeper) act as a judge to prevent arguments.

Next, you can have 10 balls lined up 18 yards from the goal and have a keeper in goal. The server (or second keeper) is hitting balls as hard as she
can right at the keeper. The competition is to see who can hold the most shots (a shot off to the side doesn’t count and is retaken). After 10 shots
they switch roles. Each keeper can do this for three sets and a winner can be determined. The more keepers play these types of games, the more
confident they will get in catching balls.

Too many keepers don’t believe they can catch hard shots and because of this, never make the effort to do so. Once they realize they can catch these
balls, they will be much more successful.

The field players did the exact same circle exercise as yesterday (it actually covers so many things that it didn’t make sense to change it). Next we
do dry runs to goal going 10 v 1 (just a keeper as opposition). The starters do this to one goal and the second team does it to the other goal on the
practice field.

Next, the second team comes over and defends against the first team. The difference here is that the second team is lining up using the formation
of the team that we will be playing on Friday. One of the assistant coaches is working with the second team to try to recreate the looks we will
be seeing on Friday. They use a different formation than we have seen this year so this was very important to do at this time. Next, we switch so
that the second team is now attacking the first team and again is trying to recreate the opponent. Next, the second team runs through all of the
opponents dead ball plays so that nothing will be a surprise in the game. Finally, the first team goes through all of our dead ball plays because
we have not done a good job of executing them in games recently. Next, the first team plays 5 v 5 while the second team does 10-10, 20-20 and
10-20-30-yard shuttles. When the shuttles are done, they switch and the first team does the shuttles.

Training ends with a group run and stretch.

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Thursday, September 27 - PM
The top 18 players are traveling today to their away game, so the remaining five players stay behind and get some training in. These five players go
out with a conditioning coach and work on some conditioning and then finish with a 2 v 2 + 1 30-minute scrimmage .

Friday, September 28 - Game

Today we played our biggest rival. We went into this game knowing that we will most likely see them three times this year (regular season today, in
the conference tournament and in the NCAA tournament). Since both teams have a legitimate chance of making the College Cup this will be a great
test of where we stand.

The game started out fine and 34 minutes into the match we scored the first goal of the game. However, our immaturity showed by giving up a
goal less than a minute later. We start four freshman and NEED our upperclassmen to step up in situations like this. Unfortunately, just like in our
second game of the year, our captains did not step up and assume this type of leadership

Then, 45 seconds into the second half, we made a careless pass in the back and gave up another quick goal. This lack of focus and concentration
cost us the game (yes it’s easy to say we had many scoring opportunities and if we had converted them we could have won, but it’s a lack of focus
that will always cost us when it occurs).

The other thing that showed up today is a slight lack of speed in back when playing against top teams. While we are not slow, we will have to make
some adjustments in back in the upcoming weeks.

We will be traveling home tomorrow, so we will take Saturday and Sunday off and resume training on Monday for two games next week.

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Monday, October 1 - PM
Diagram 113

Training started with a 15-minute jog and stretch. One of

the things you might have noticed is that as the season has
progressed, I haven’t mentioned the players coming early and
warming up on their own. Because of this, the initial jog and
stretch has been inadequate because players must warm up
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before going through a more intense warm-up and stretch. The

team is broken into six groups and spread out around the 60 x
44-yard mini-field. The group starting at the X on the bottom
middle start by running at 3/4 speed to the right till they get to
the corner. When they get there, the next group starts running
so there is always one group running and five stretching. They do
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Diagram 114

Next, cones were placed three yards inside the corner X’s. All
players start at the same time and sprint for 90 seconds. Their
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objective is to try to pass people in front of them and not get

passed by people behind them. They must stay between the
corner and the cone and push themselves as hard as possible.
After the 90 second period, they stretch and then do it again.

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Diagram 115

Next, the keepers go off and warm up and then work on footwork.
One keeper is in goal and the others are servers. Three cones are
spread out in front of the goal (six yards out) and the keeper has to
sprint to the first cone, get a ball hit at them, catch it, return it and
then sprint back to the goal before sprinting to the next cone. This
goes for 60 seconds and then they switch The keepers rotate and do
this three times (each time the serves get harder and harder).

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Diagram 116

While the keepers are warming up, the field players are going
through some simple combinations in the circle activity.

Next, the field players break into two teams of 10 and go on

the mini-field. Five from the dark team and five from the white
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team are on the field and the rest surround the field. The five
dark players in the middle try to maintain possession of the
ball and get as many consecutive passes as possible. If they are
under pressure, they can pass the ball to any of the dark players
on the outside who are limited to one-touch passes. If white
wins the ball, they do the same thing. They play 90 seconds
and then switch with the people on the outside.
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Next, everyone goes over to the practice field and the starters do half-field dry runs to one goal and the second team does the same to the other
goal. The big difference between today’s dry runs and other times we have done it is the emphasis this time was shape in back. The reason for
doing this was to make sure we are not susceptible to counter attacks because of not covering for players going forward. This is a hard line because
on the one hand we consider our backs going forward to be an integral part of our attack and on the other hand we realized in our last game that
we don’t have the speed if we are caught in poor position.

Next, the second team came over and defended against the first team who attacked half field. The two points of emphasis for the first team were
maintaining team shape in the back and also getting back quicker when the keeper had the ball (on all saves, goals and goal kicks, the keepers
looked to play balls out quickly to catch the first team sleeping).

When we switched and had the second team attacking, we also added in dead ball situations to get a greater emphasis on defending free kicks.

Next, we went to the grids and the starters ran their S4 shuttles while the second team played 5 v 5 plus keepers on the mini-field. When the
sprints were over and they had gotten a drink, the two groups switched.

Group jog and stretch as a cool down to end practice.

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Jog and stretch to start practice (and done much better in order to make sure we would not make them do those sprints again from yesterday).

Keepers go to warm up and then work on distribution.

Two groups break into 3 v 3 v 3 games (meaning two teams on offense and one on defense for possession). Each team plays defense for 90 seconds
and the other two teams try to get as many consecutive passes as possible. If the defending team gets the ball, they try to maintain possession (the
longer they have the ball, the less consecutive passes the opponent can get). The teams work hard to see who can get the most passes in a row.
Each team defends twice.

Diagram 117

Next, the players go to the practice field. The full sized goals are
moved up to the 18-yard lines and another line is put 12 yards
from each goal. The players are split into two teams of nine and
play in the middle 60 yards of the field. There is one additional
player on the field who is always on defense in order to take away
space. No one (offense of defense) is allowed into the 12-yard
areas except for keepers or if their team has done a combination
to get to goal. We played five-minute periods and then made
corrections. The theory behind this is that we organized them
into an activity then sat back and observed and finally instructed
between periods. We played five five-minute periods.

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Diagram 118
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Next, everyone went to the mini-field and split into three teams of
six plus keepers. They played five minute games or until a goal was
scored. When a goal was scored, the game is over and the winner
stays on and the loser steps off and the third team plays. In order
for the goal to count, all players must be in the offensive half of the
field.
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Group jog and stretch to end training.

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Diagram 119
Jog and stretch as a warm-up. The team breaks into four teams of
five and goes on the mini-field that has four goals on the outside of
the field. Each team is assigned to one goal to start. A ball is played
into the middle and the teams try to score on any goal EXCEPT the
one they are assigned to. So the objective is to score on any of the
three goals without giving up a goal. When a goal gets scored, all
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teams rotate to the right and now are responsible for defending a
different goal. Also, each time a goal is scored an additional ball is
added onto the field. After the second goal, there would then be 3
balls on the field. After four goals are scored, the game is stopped
and we see which teams let up goals and which didn’t (since this is
was our first time playing this, we only kept track of goals against for
44 Yards a team and not goals scored). Four games of this were played.
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Diagram 120

Next, we play a seven man sniffer game. The field is 60 yards

long and 44 yards wide with a midfield line. Four players are in
the defensive half of the field and three in the attacking half for
each team. The three in the attacking side may NOT come back
into the defensive half of the field. The original idea was that no s
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one from the back could cross into the offensive half either but
since we are encouraging players to look for shots we let a player
from the back cross over to take a good touch for a shot. Once this
was allowed, one player started to go forward and was involved
in combination play so while that wasn’t the original idea of
the game, it ended up working so we let it go. There were three
teams and players rotated on goals or five minute periods. 44 Yards
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Diagram 121
Next, we went to the mini-field and again played with three teams
rotating on goals and five minute periods. The games were very
intense and we were extremely satisfied with the way things
went. Next we went to the grid area and had relay races. They
broke into four groups and had to run between six coaching poles
and then jump over a gate and back and then back through the
poles to the end-line and the next person would go
The second race involved jumping over the gate, back, over,
back, over and then under and then through the poles. The third
race was over, under, over, under, over, under and then through
the poles. The fourth, fifth and sixth races had similar type
combinations. The players sprinted hard, and went over and under
the gates at full speed and had a great time while working hard.
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Diagram 122

The team ended with a jog and a stretch and the keepers and two
forwards stayed for some extra work.

Servers with three balls were on the corner of the six-yard

area and two shooters were on the six-yard area even with the
goalposts. The ball got played across the six-yard area to the far
shooter and the keeper tried to get out and smother the ball. As
soon as the save was made, the other server played the ball across
the goal for the keeper to smother that ball as well. Each keeper
took six shots and then rotated.

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Diagram 123

Each keeper did four sets and then we added another variable.
Another server was added at the top of the 18-yard area so
instead of a ball going directly across the six yard area it could
also be laid back to the edge of the penalty area as well. They did
this three times and then we added the variable of the ball being
played in the air across the six yard area to show them different
possibilities

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Thursday, October 4 - PM
Diagram 124

Good jog and stretch as a warm-up

We played the same four-goal game as yesterday with a few

modifications. The first one was after a goal, the team that scored the
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goal and the team that was scored on switch goals instead of everyone
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rotating to the right. The reason for this was simply to force everyone
to think. The other major changes were in the scoring. Yesterday
we only kept score of goals against. This time a team received two
points for scoring a goal, one point for an assist and lost two points for
allowing a goal.
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Next, we played the 9 v 9 game from Tuesday. The difference was that instead of one full-time defender, we had two full-time defenders in order to
increase the pressure The only time these players played on offense was that each was assigned a team and were on that team offensively for free
kicks. Every five minutes we switched the defensive players and the teams had to adjust to losing a different position player each time.

Next, we played the three-team 7 v 7 sniffer game from yesterday in order to work on defensive shape in the back as well as combination play. This
actually went better than expected and we did this longer than expected because it was determined that it would be better to continue a successful
exercise and end on a positive than to switch to the next activity

Training ended with a jog and stretch.

Friday, October 5 - PM
We had a game this evening and the best way to explain it was that it was a boring game. Whether it was a planned strategy or not, the opponent
ended up defending with ten players behind the ball most of the game. It takes a great deal of patience in order to play against this type of team
and there were times when we demonstrated a lack of focus in the back.

Statistically we dominated but that doesn’t mean it was good enough. We have to learn to hit balls harder in our passes and to simply play quicker .

Sunday, October 7 - PM
A much better showing than Friday. Quicker play against a quicker and better opponent. We had a couple of defensive breakdowns and continued
to show a weakness when having to clear balls out under pressure. This will have to be worked on in upcoming training.

The good news is playing two games on a weekend and having two shut-outs.

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Tuesday, October 9 - PM
We traveled to the location of our next match today and as soon as we got there we went to the field to stretch out.

The main purpose of going straight to the field in this situation is for them to get loosened up a bit after sitting in a bus for five hours. Also, we
want the players to see the field we will be playing on, and become as familiar with the environment they will be encountering as possible. This
means not only checking out the field but also seeing what the locker room situation is like, knowing how far a walk it is to the field from the locker
room and anything else that might come up.

Once on the practice field, beside the game field, the players go on a jog and stretch.

Diagram 125

Next, the keepers warm up while the field players

make four lines around the center circle. There are
four balls in this activity (one at the front of each line)
and the balls are passed wit one touch across the
circle to the opposite line and then the person follows
the pass to the back of the other line. Two balls per
the two lines are going at the same time.

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Next, this is turned into more of a game and while the passes are still hit with one touch, the players are TRYING to hit a player running across from
the other two lines (the balls MUST be played on the ground). This forces players to get their heads up before the ball gets to them as well as to
run with their heads up in order to not get hit by one of the balls. They can’t hit the ball too hard or the person in the opposite line wont be able to
handle it but if they hit it too softly they will never hit a runner.

Next, the players did some shadow play going to goal just to review what we have been working on.

Training ends with another jog and stretch. We are out there for less than 45 minutes and the thing that we spent the most time on was the warm
up and cool down.

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Wednesday, October 10 - PM
We met before the game with the players to talk to them about the importance of this game. It’s against a team with a .500 record but it’s the type
of game we HAVE to win to accomplish our goals. It’s our third game in six days and we have some banged up players but had to convince them of
the importance of winning all games.

Despite what we tried to sell the players on, they didn’t buy it We went out and played our flattest game of the year and for reasons I really don’t
understand, we played soft in every way.

There were technical and tactical problems all over the field but the real problem that has to be addressed is lack of emotion and intensity.

Thursday, October 11 - PM
One of the things that players never seem to understand is that they are more likely to get injured when they play soft than when they go into
everything hard. Because of this, we have a LOT of nagging injuries from the players who played a lot last night.. Since the primary problem was
motivational, we decided to take the nine field players who got most of the playing time (and most of the injuries) and to sit them out of training
and instead, meet with them while the others play.

Everyone went for a jog and stretch and then the nine players met with the head coach while the others went on the practice field and scrimmaged
on a field from the 18-yard box to the 18-yard box playing all forward and all back. The reason for doing this is that the best way to stay in shape is
to play soccer.

The nine players and two of the coaches met to discuss ways to prevent the debacle from last night from happening again. Among the topics that
were discussed included talking to the upper class men about providing better leadership to the younger players and also to work on finding what
motivates the different players. Other topics that were discussed included getting a better warm-up as well as what it will take to get back on the
right track.

The two groups got together afterwards for a cool down jog and stretch.

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Friday, October 12 - PM
The players met for an hour before training so that the players could try to work out things on their own. Also, this was an opportunity for the nine
players who met yesterday to discuss things with the rest of the group.

Training started with a jog and a stretch.

Next, the players got into a big circle for the circle combination activity. In order to keep the players thinking and moving, in a 12-minute period,
they did eight different combinations. It started with simple wall passes, then double passes, then overlaps and takeovers were added. The
changes were made on the fly (meaning the players were being given directions while they were doing the previous combination).

Diagram 126

Next, the keepers went off and warmed up and then did some
footwork activities with two strikers. The two strikers (outside
players) receive balls from the middle server and volley balls to
the goal where the keepers take eight shots and then rotate. This
works on the strikers concentrating on making good contact and
the keepers working on footwork and getting their bodies behind
the ball (the strikers are NOT trying to hit the ball hard but rather
just making good contact).

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While the keepers are doing this, the field players break into two 3 v 3 v 3 games. The big emphasis is on making the transition from defense to
offense and also offense to defense. We did this for 2-minute periods where whoever lost the ball was on defense and they had to work hard to win
the ball back.

Next a group of three stayed on defense for 90 seconds and the other two teams tried to see how many consecutive passes they could make. If the
defense wins the ball, they try to keep the ball while the other two teams try to win the ball back. The two teams play one touch while the one
team has unlimited touches. This became a very spirited activity which is part of what we were going after.

Next we went on the practice field and did dry runs to goal. Even though this was done without defense, it was done at full speed with a greater
emphasis on making the proper runs.

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Diagram 127
Next, in order to prepare for our Sunday opponent, we put our first
team in a 4-4-2 in zones and we put our second team in a 3-5-2
(the formation our next opponent will play). While the players are
not restricted to their zones, they were put out there in order to
show them how they are going to have to shift in order to defend
against this formation. We do not obsess too much on things like
formations but it’s important to make sure they see how it’s going
to look. In the diagram our first team is represented by the white
team and the second team is represented by the black team. We
let them play a regular game but frequently made stops to correct
marking assignments and support positions. This is something
that should be done frequently when preparing for a team using
a different formation than you are accustomed to seeing. Training
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ended with a jog and a stretch.

Saturday, October 13 - PM
We met at the field and the players jogged and stretched.

All that we did today was walk through our free kicks to make sure everyone was on the same page. We spent less than 45 minutes on the field and
then changed and took off for our next destination.

Normally we prefer to practice the day before the game at the opponents facility but because of a football game at their place, we would not
have access to a field. Plus we have been to this school for a tournament earlier so we are quite familiar with the setting. This evening, we had a
meeting to go over the scouting report for our opponents. Plus we reviewed some of what we had talked about this week in our meetings.

Sunday, October 14 - PM
We played a very different game today. Instead of playing down to a weaker opponent, this time we played against another nationally ranked
opponent and had the better of the play. We dominated in terms of field position, possession and statistics. Unfortunately, the only stat that
matters is the final score and that was 0-0.

Unlike after our last game, we now can go back to working on technical and tactical issues and not have to deal with damage control.

While we started off the season finishing well, we have fallen off in that regard recently and that will be a big point of emphasis for next week.

We don’t play again till next Sunday so that gives us plenty of time to recover from some minor injuries and also correct some of these problems.

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Diagram 128
Practice starts with a jog and stretch. We start with 2 v 2 headers.
Start with a field that is 20 x 10-yard with a goal on each
sideline. Put a line down the middle for a midfield line. There are
two players on each team and you can have as many games going
on at one time as you want. Team A starts with the ball and must
stay on their own side of the field. The players can throw the ball
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back and forth to each other or even can run with the ball to the
midfield line. In order to score a goal, the players must head the
ball into the opposing teams goal. If Team B saves the ball they
immediately go on the attack and try to score in Team A’s goal.

Since the only way to score is with a header, the quicker the
10 Yards counter attacks happen, the greater the probability of scoring.
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Diagram 129
Next, the keepers go and warm up with a couple of forwards.
After their regular sitting, kneeling and catchers position
progression, the keepers would take shots from three different
close in angles with a big emphasis on footwork as opposed to
diving.
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While the keepers are getting ready, the field players go into
two 3 v 3 v 3 games. The rules were one team stayed on defense
for 90 seconds and the other two teams tried seeing how many
consecutive passes they could get playing one touch soccer. If the
defense wins the ball, they try to keep possession which prevents
the other two teams from making passes. Each team plays
defense for three periods in this rotation. Each game was played 20 Yards

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Next, eight players who are directly involved in free kicks go on the practice field and work on free kicks. This is done by first working on the striking
of balls (we are getting a lot of free kicks around midfield and closer. In order to cause more problems from the midfield position we want balls to
be played deeper into the box behind the defense. We put a great emphasis on driving the ball in deep rather then lofting it and then to make the
corresponding runs.

While these eight players were working on free kicks, the rest of the team played three 15-minute periods on the mini-field. The first game was
played with two-touch maximum restriction. The second period was played with the all forward and all back rules. The third period was free play.

Training ended with S4’s (10-10, 20-20, 10-20-30-yard shuttles).

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The team is broken into two teams (blue and gray) and each team goes for a jog and stretch by themselves (this is just to force the captains to take a
little bit more responsibilities.

Practice starts with a ten minute Team Handball game. (Greys versus blues)

Next the keepers go to warm up quickly and also work on crosses and distribution.

The players get into a big circle with blues and grays mixed into the circle. They spend 12 minutes going through a progression ranging from wall
passes, to takeovers to overlaps to double passes. The idea is simply to get them moving quickly and making adjustments on the fly. Blues can only
work with blues and grays can only work with grays.

Diagram 130

Next, the field players play 3 v 3 v 3. The difference between

today and yesterday is now we play in a 20 x 20-yard area
instead of a 30 x 20-yard area. The reason for this is to make
the players play quicker and harder in a smaller area. By
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taking away this space, the speed of play increased as did the 20 Yard
level of intensity which is what we were going for. One of
the things we were going for was to get them used to a high
contact situation without losing their composure since we
know our next game will be very physical.

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Next, we go the practice field and play 11 v 11 working on free kicks. The idea behind this is to take the things the eight players worked on
yesterday and try to execute this under pressure with two full teams. In order to make sure the players are balanced out, we would play a free kick
in and then let the defense try to counter attack. We worked on indirect from midfield, from 30 yards out, from 18 yards out from different angles
and corners from each side. We also worked on defending dead balls as well. The reason for this big emphasis is that while we have committed
more fouls in every game than our opponents, we are NOT being hurt because we have dominated field position in almost every game so the free
kicks we are giving up have mostly not been dangerous but we are getting great opportunities to score and not converting them so it makes sense
to spend this time on things that need to be improved.

Next, we go to the mini-field and break into three teams. Two played for a 12-minute period and the other team did plyometrics. The team that
won the game stayed on and the other two teams switched roles.

Each team played for 24 minutes and did two sets of plyometrics.

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Practice starts with a jog and a stretch.

Next, we go right into 3 v 3 v 3 games again (two games and now back to 30 x 20-yard grids). The difference in the rules was that it was two-touch
instead of one-touch. Also if blue is on defense first with gray and orange on offense, and orange loses the ball then it’s blue and gray vs orange.
Regardless of who loses the ball next, blue is back on defense. The idea behind this was to reward a team for winning the ball and also to make sure
they understand the importance of keeping possession. Each team takes three turns in the defensive role for 90 seconds each. The three keepers
are part of this in order to make sure they understand the defensive responsibilities.

Diagram 131

Next, we go to the practice field and start off playing a

5 v 5 sniffer game on a 36 yards long field that is 44 yards wide.
Three players are in the back half of the field and the other
two are in the front. Players are not SUPPOSED to cross over

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the midfield line but we do allow players to cross to go to goal

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offensively.

Next, we add a neutral player in each corner which allows us to

work on penetrating passes and runs off of them. The four neutral
players can be used by either team and are restricted to one
touch.
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Diagram 132

When we added the four neutral players we also told the players
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that they would have to do everything correctly and any mistakes

would not be accepted. This is for any mistake related to lack
of concentration or lack of effort. The first three mistakes each
resulted in a 120-yard sprint for the whole team (we were using the
center of our practice field as the center of the field so they would
sprint from the center of the field to the end line of the full field and
back. After the first three mistakes, they had to run from the center
of the field, to the end line and then to the opposite end line and
back to the center (240 yards).
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Unless you were there you could NOT understand just how specific we were being. If a player should have taken another step to get one yard wider,
it resulted in a 240 yard sprint for the whole team. There were over twenty 240 yard sprints done over the course of the game and since they were
doing everything they could to avoid the running, the intensity was very high. I can honestly say this was one of the most intense sessions in the
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Next, the players go to the mini field and play all forward and all back with two teams and the third team goes on and replaces any team that
gets scored on. The better a team plays, the more they get to play (just like it works in a real game). We end practice with a slalom running and
dribbling exercise.

Next, the field players stretch and cool down and the keepers and four field players remain on the field.. The field players are working on quick
turns and shots and the keepers are making saves from 18 yards out. The keeper stays in as long as they keep the ball out of the back of the goal
and rotate on goals. The turns and shots are hit from different angles and this goes on for 25 minutes.

Friday, October 19 - PM
Practice started with a jog and a stretch and then immediately into 3 v 3 v 3. The reason for doing this same game over and over again is that it’s a
great way to work on defensive organization, as well as possession and transition. If anything, the work today in the 3 v 3 v 3 is even more intense
than yesterday. Part of this is because they don’t want to go through the running again. We then played the two-team keep-away where the
team that wins the ball has to find one of two neutral players before they can maintain possession. This was to work on possession and also quick
transition in finding a target player.

Next, we head over to the practice field and play the sniffer game. Exact same as yesterday but without the mental mistakes. We played without
the neutral players in the corners and rotated the third team in on goals scored. The difference in this game and yesterdays was significant. While I
would NOT encourage the type of negative reinforcement that we did yesterday, doing it occasionally with an older team can be very effective

Next, move the goals back to the 12-yard spots and played 11 v 11 with constant stops for random free kicks (in either direction). The emphasis is
on proper execution. This was first team vs second team and the second team was lined up using the same formation and same system as our next
opponent. We then went to the mini-field and played with three teams rotating in on goals. No specific rules other than good soccer. This went on
for 20 minutes.

Practice ended with a jog and a stretch

Sunday, October 21 - PM
Today’s game was an extremely tough one. It’s the first time all year an opponent had the same number of shots as us (although we had more
shots on goal). While they didn’t have the technical or soccer abilities that we did, they were extremely athletic and intense. As the season
progresses, it is becoming more and more apparent that this is an issue that has to be addressed for next year. One of the keys for college soccer is to
be dealing with the current issues as well as taking them into consideration in recruiting.

We won today in the second overtime period on a corner kick. At least there is some gratification in knowing that all of the time spent on free
kicks this past week paid off. Some of the issues that will have to be addressed in training this week is 1 v 1 defending as well as providing better
support in those situations. Also, we need to get back to our crossing and finishing because we are doing a good job of creating those situations but
not taking advantage of them. The concern from this game is the number of injuries that we suffered as a result of the intensity of the match. This
could effect our training for the week as well.

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Tuesday, October 23 - PM
Players start with a jog and stretch. The keepers go off to warm up and then work on receiving crosses. The reason for working on crosses was
because they actually are doing well on crosses recently and it’s real common to only focus on negatives and by doing this, the strengths tend to get
negated. This started with balls being served in from both sides (each keeper took 10 from each side and did three sets of this). Next, after each
cross (which were served far post) there was a shot hit to what had been the near post. This worked on receiving crosses, footwork, shot blocking,
conditioning and angles.

The field players start off playing 5 v 3 in a 20 x 20-yard area (there are two games going on at one time with no one sitting out because of the
number of injuries we suffered in the game on Sunday). The restrictions started with two-touch and then progressed to one-touch.

Diagram 133

Next, the players play 2 v 2 in the same grid with players on

the four corners acting as goals. The blacks try to score by

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playing between the legs of the whites in the corner and the
whites on the field try to score between the blacks in the
corner.

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Diagram 134

Next, we change to 1 v 1 where now the players in the corners can

be used for support and there now is a player in the middle of the
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line acting as a goal.

20 Yard

As a coaching point you will notice that the previous three activities
are all done in groups of eight to allow for easy transition.

20 Yards
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Next, we split into two groups. The second team goes to crossing and finishing as done in previous weeks.

The first team spent 45 minutes on offensive free kicks. The reason for this big emphasis recently is that because of our ability to possess the ball
in the offensive half of the field, we get an incredible number of dead ball situations which we are NOT capitalizing on, so on a day when we have
people recovering from injuries it was a great time to do it.

Next, we broke into three teams and played on the mini-field. All forward and all back if a team gets scored upon they step off the field and the
other team steps on.

Training ended with a long jog and a stretch.

Wednesday, October 24 - PM
Diagram 135

Training starts with a jog and stretch.

To get things going quickly, we started with Team Handball. s

Next, the players go into the 12-minute circle combination where

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every minute the combination changes on the fly.

Next, we played 2 v 2 games. A player in each corner and coerver

goals as the targets. The big emphasis here is on defensive
positioning and support. (See diagram 135).
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Diagram 136

While the field players are working on combinations and then

defense and attacking, the keepers warm up and then work on
footwork and positioning. The way this was done was one keeper
is in goal and three servers pass the ball back and forth. The keeper
in goal must readjust for proper positioning on each pass. Any time
a server saw the keeper was out of position, a shot gets hit. They do
this for two minutes and then rotate.

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Diagram 137
Next, everyone goes to the practice field and we play
11 v 11. The difference is that we are preparing for the possibility of
an opponent packing it in defensively against us so we put cones five
yards outside the 18 sides and restrict the defense (the second team)
from going wider than this. The way we attacked this was to have the
outside midfielders push inside of the dotted line and had our backs
overlap around them. This is actually a more effective way to attack it
then to have the outside midfielders go wide because we are looking
to unsettle the defense and the overlap frequently can do this.

Next, we took this same set up and worked on offensive and defensive
free kicks.

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Diagram 138

Next, we break into three teams. Two play on the mini-field and the
third does a conditioning and finishing activity. There are two servers
with two balls and two coerver goals for each person working (since
there are only six or seven players per team we only have two set
up). It’s a 20 x 20-yard area and one player sprints around a goal and
receives a ball from a server for a first time shot then sprints back
around for a ball from the other server. They go at full speed for four
shots and then rotate. This was done for four times each.

After each team has played two games and did the shooting and
conditioning activity they stretched and were done.

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Wednesday, October 24 - PM
Training starts with a jog and a stretch. Then the field players break into four teams of five and they play 5 v 5 keep away (two teams on the inside
of a 40 x 30-yard area and two on the outside providing support. This is all about possession.

While the field players are playing 5 v 5 keep away, the keepers warm up and then work on handling long balls that are being played with and
against the wind. It’s an extremely windy day and we are expecting this to be so for our game tomorrow as well so we have to prepare them for this
situation. This is done by simply playing balls in the same direction as our game field. A server plays the ball in the air and then the keeper and a
another player fight for the ball in the air. The keepers have to really concentrate on their footwork to make the proper adjustments.

Next, everyone goes to the practice field and the field players stay in their four teams. They play the sniffer game. Two teams play while one waits
to go on when a goal gets scored. The fourth team works on playing long balls into and against the wind.

Next, we play 11 v 11 having the first team working first into the wind and then against the wind. We work on overall shape and balance in general
flow of play as well as offensive and defensive free kicks.

Next, we switch it around to have the first team go with the wind and do the same thing.

Next, we go back to the mini-field and play 6 v 6 games without restrictions with three teams rotating on goals. The overall level of play looked
quite good.

Training ended with a jog and a stretch.

Friday, October 26 - PM
Today’s game was an interesting one. First of all, we were playing an opponent who we have traditionally struggled against (going into the game
our overall record against them was 5-13-4). Plus it was our senior night which just adds some additional variables that can effect the play in
different ways. Lastly, it was cold, windy and snowing which makes it difficult for us to play our normal style of play.

Our emphasis on dead ball situations paid off today with a goal in the first half off of a set piece. Unfortunately, we were not able to score anymore
as the game turned very defensive and also very “chippy”. Our accomplishments for the game were the fact that we were able to hold on for the
win, we were able to survive what almost became a dirty game without any injuries and without anyone losing their emotions (the opponent
could NOT say that as far as their emotions are concerned as they received two red cards near the end of the game) and we were able to capitalize
on a dead ball situation again.

It’s difficult to walk away from this game knowing what needed to be worked on because it was just one of those games that happen and you are
happy to survive.

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Saturday, October 28 - PM
We traveled today and then went to the field for a brief workout. Training started with a jog and a stretch.

While the field players played a circle game, the keepers warm up and then work on high balls (we are on the game field for tomorrow and on
one side of the field are tan/white buildings that make it difficult to find the ball with that background on high balls so we work on that). Also,
because the field is only 112 yards long, we work on punts, drop kicks and goal kicks to get a feel for where we should set up. While the keepers are
preparing, the team starts doing some shadow play just to walk through some things we wanted to correct in terms of spacing on the far side of the
field.

Training ended with a jog and a stretch.

Sunday, October 28 - PM
Today’s game was interesting in that we were able to see how we handled some adversity.

We gave up an own goal 29 minutes into the game and it’s always interesting to see how a player and a team react to this type of situation. Plus,
in the three games we have fallen behind this year, we have lost all three. To make matters worse, the opponent had started the game by semi
packing it in and trying to get at least ten players behind the ball. This is why we had worked on how to attack this type of style of play this week.

We didn’t really attack them the way we had practiced as we thought we could pressure them with early serves behind the defense to force their
defenders and keepers to make difficult decisions on how and when to play balls. While we were not successful at getting to as many balls as we
would have liked in this type of attack, we did force a number of corner kicks and were able to score on two of them in the second half for the win.

These two goals off of corner kicks means that the last 4 goals we have scored (and the last three game winners) have been the result of dead ball
situations. While some would say that they haven’t been pretty goals, the truth is that when you consider the amount of time we have spent on
dead ball situations in the last couple of weeks, it should give you an idea of why we are successful on them. This goes back to the theory of G.O.L
which stands for:

• Good
• Organized
• Lucky

It also goes back to the old story about the golfer who makes a shot from the rough 120 yards away. When someone mentioned how lucky he was
to make the shot, he replied by saying that the more he practiced those types of shots, the “luckier” he seems to get. The same applies here.

We have to do a better job of possessing the ball and building through the midfield to be successful and that will be a point of emphasis in our
training sessions this week.

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Tuesday, October 30 - PM
Training started with a jog and a stretch.

The keepers go and warm up and then work on reactions by taking rapid fire shots. There were 10 shots in a set and two sets from 15 yards straight
on and then two from a 60 degree angel from the left and then two from a 60 degree angle from the right. This means that each keeper took 60
shots in a short period of time.

While the keepers were doing this, the field players do combinations in the circle exercise for a 12-minute period changing combinations every two
minutes. The big emphasis was on timing and quality of the passes. There was a lot of work on communication in this activity.

Next, we go to the practice field and work on a slightly revised formation. Because of the anticipated style of play of our opponent, we are going
to a 4-3-2-1. To start with, we simply run combinations out of this with dry runs. The idea was to work on using the one player up top as a target
player and to make runs off of him.

Diagram 139

The first combination was having a midfielder (one of the three

players) play the ball up to the one target player who was running
a double-post with one of the two link men (see Diagram 139 ).
The second option was to bypass the target player (using him as
a dummy) and finding a link man running through. Option three
was to switch the point of attack and then do one of the first two
combinations from the other side. Option number three was to
find a player down the line and then get a good serve in to a near/
far runner. This was done by the first team going to one goal at the
same time the second team was going to the other goal (no defense
for either).

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Next, we go 3/4 field with the first team going against four players in from the second team playing as a back four. Because we anticipate
tomorrow’s opponent to play a zone in back that shifts all the way across to compress the field, we have the second team recreating that in back.
After 10 minutes of this, we added in four midfielders and had them defend the same way we anticipated the opponent would play. This went on
for 15 minutes at which point we added two forwards and played against a complete re-creation of the opponent.

Next, we started adding in offensive dead ball situations. Because of the expectation of the opponent bringing everyone back on dead balls, we
worked on being quicker off of all of our dead ball situations. We also worked on early long diagonal balls against this type of defense to get behind
the defense early.

Next, we went to the mini-field and split into three teams to play all forward and all back games switching on goals scored.

Training ended with a jog and a stretch.

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Today’s game was against a team ranked better than us in the top 20 in the nation. We knew they were a defensive team but didn’t anticipate just
how defensive they would be. For all intensive purposes, they packed it in and were hoping for a lucky break to score a goal. At halftime we were
leading 1-0 and had out shot them 9-0. The game ended with a shutout and at best, they had one legitimate scoring opportunity.

Our work with combination play yesterday seemed to pay off although they gave us so much space to work with in the middle of the field, that
they made it quite easy to work the ball around. The one thing that we didn’t do well was finish and that is something we will have to work on in
getting ready for the playoffs.

Thursday, November 1 - PM
Training started with a long jog and stretch. This took almost twice as long as normal because the players who got a lot of playing time yesterday
were quite sore and tight.

The field players worked on simple skill work by being in groups of two and moving back and forth down the field three yards apart with one
person serving the ball and the other person doing one touch passing with the inside of the foot, instep, outside of the foot and then receiving the
ball with the thigh and volleying back, then chest and volley back and then head and volley back. The eight players who played the majority of
the game yesterday did a 30-minute stretch and then went to the practice field and worked on striking balls and bending balls for free kicks. They
did this with no coaches and simply were able to hit a lot of balls to work on things while relaxing. The rest of the players played three 15 minute
periods on the mini field. It was 7 v 7 with no special rules. After the first 15 minute period, they went over and did two sets of plyometrics. After
the second period they took a four-minute break and then went back and played.

The keepers went and warmed up and then played Keeper Wars. Keeper Wars is a fun game that actually works on a lot of goalkeeping related skills
(just don’t tell your keepers that they are accomplishing something or they might not want to play it anymore). Set up two goals, approximately
20 yards apart (the distance will vary depending upon the age/size of the keepers). There is one keeper in each goal. They can either shoot the ball
from the ground, drop kick the ball, or throw the ball into the opposing goal. The opposing keeper tries to make the save. If she makes the save,
then she is shooting on the other goal. It’s a very simple concept but you can make the game harder by changing some rules. For instance, a save
by pushing the ball over the goal or by parrying around the post that results in a corner kick goes back to the other keeper to shoot again. A shot
that results in a rebound can be handled a couple of different ways. Some people play where if the rebound stays on the defensive half of the field,
then the keeper who gave up the rebound gets the ball. An interesting variation is to say that if there is a rebound, then the first keeper to the
ball gets it. This will force the keeper who made the save to bounce back up quickly or get scored upon. Also, it adds some decision making to the
process.

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Friday, November 2 - PM
Today was a travel day (we spent seven and a half hours on a bus to get to the city of our next game which will be played tomorrow). Since the
game will be at 7.00 PM we arranged to train at that same time today. The whole purpose of today’s session was to get loosened up (sitting on a
bus for that length of time can really tighten a player up) as well as to get accustomed to the surroundings. The field itself has a different type of
grass than what we have been playing on so they have to get accustomed to the speed of the surface. Also, this is a great opportunity to get used
to the lights (they are a bit lower than our home field so it’s easier for the keepers and others to lose the ball on lofted serves).

We only spent 35 minutes at the field and all that was done was a long jog and stretch, then hard passes were hit on the ground and then balls
were chipped to get used to everything. The keepers worked on crosses to find what parts of the field they will have the most difficulty with.
Everyone ended with a jog and a good cool down stretch.

Saturday, November 3 - AM
We came back to the field this morning for another short session. There are a number of purposes for this session. The first one is to get another
good stretch. Secondly, we want the players to get more accustomed to the playing surface since it’s faster than what we are accustomed to. Third,
it breaks up the day which on this type of trip is important (the decision had to be made whether to come down on Friday and spend all day waiting
for the game or to drive down on Saturday, and the reason for choosing Friday was because of how difficult it is to get off of a bus and play right
away. The feeling was that this allowed us to be better prepared to play (and the players knew that to get this option in the future as well they had
better perform well). Lastly, this allowed us to do a little bit more shadow play to get ready for what we expect from the opponents. The difference
in today’s shadow play is that instead of having an offense going against a defense, we had the starters in gray and the backups in orange pinnies
and the orange players played right beside the grays. The idea was that if the keeper had the ball and a gray was lazy while the orange player
immediately went to the correct position for support the ball would go to the orange player. At that time, the rest of the players would go into
supporting positions and the ball would be played to the players in the best positions (it didn’t matter if orange played to orange or gray). This
meant that if a player wanted the ball, he would sprint into position because otherwise the ball would get played to his “shadow” instead. The
players were NOT to fight for the ball but instead simply tried to get the ball by getting to better positions. We also did this at the end working on
free kicks and the players who would time their runs correctly would get the ball. It was interesting (but not surprising) that the first team players
almost always got to the correct spot first (that is why they are on the first team). Practice ended with another good stretch.

Saturday, November 3 - PM
This evenings game started off slowly for us as we just struggled to get into the overall flow of the game. This was actually a bit of a surprise
because the warm up went very smoothly. In the 18th minute we scored on a direct kick and it was nice to see it executed exactly as we had
worked on it. The game went back and forth for the rest of the half.

In the second half we exploded for two goals within a minute of each other to put the game away. The third goal was scored off of an indirect kick
so our recent proficiency in scoring off of dead ball situations has continued. The second half turned into a very pretty game of soccer as we were
able to put together combinations at will once we were able to successfully shut down the opponents attack. This game was the last one of the
regular season and we head off for the conference tournament Tuesday. To give you some ideas of how the season has gone so far, we have played
16 matches (18 were scheduled but two were canceled due to the attacks on Sept. 11). We have 10 shutouts to date and had a shutout in all but
one conference game. Also, 14 different players have scored goals for us this season and 17 different players have at least one point. This gives you
an idea of how much we try to get our backs into the attack (the four starting backs all have scored at least one goal and two have multiple goals).

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Monday, November 5 - PM
Training starts with a jog and a stretch.

Next, is an eight-minute Team Handball game to get people moving quickly.

Next, we go to the 12-minute circle exercise in a very small space to make them work and think quickly.

Next, is a 5 v 5 keep-away game with 10 players on the outside offering support. This is done in a 40 x 30-yard area to encourage the players to look
further than what they normally do in keep-away games. The players in the middle stay for a three minute period and they are in for four sets..

Next, we break into two groups. The first group is the starting
team for Thursdays game and the second group is the rest of Diagram 140
the team.

The starters start with a shooting activity. There was one

keeper and five servers (including one coach, which is optional)
each with two soccer balls. The player doing the work has to
run around the middle cone and receives a ball from server 1
and tries to finish first time. He then runs around the cone and
receives a ball from server 2 and finishes first time. He goes
through all 5 servers and then starts back with server 1 until he
has hit ten shots. The players then switch so there is a 1:4 work
to rest ratio. With this big rest, the players are expected to go
at full speed and really push themselves hard in this activity.
Each player did this three times at full speed. The second group
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Diagram 141
Next, the second group does the shooting activity and the first
group goes to a crossing and finishing activity.

A player takes the ball down the sideline and serves the ball
to players making near/far/12-yard runs. As a progression we
added a double pass on the side before the ball goes down the
line for the serve. The emphasis was on making good serves hit
hard and low. The reason the first group didn’t do plyometrics
was to rest their legs while still maintaining the conditioning of
the rest of the players. The starters then go and work on dead
ball situations while the second group does the crossing and
finishing activity above.

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Tuesday, November 6 - PM
Today’s training has to be shorter than normal because we are leaving immediately after the session for a flight to our conference tournament. We
started with a jog and a stretch. We followed this with the 12-minute circle exercise with an emphasis on finding the third man running in each of
the two-minute combinations.

While the field players did the circle activity, the keepers warmed up and then worked on high balls from midfield. The balls were being served so
that they would come down right around the top of the 18-yard area so the keepers had to make decisions of catching, punching or clearing with
their heads or feet.

Next, we broke into two groups. One went to the mini-field and did crossing and finishing. The one different thing that we did today was to have
four dummy defenders. One stood on the corners of the six yard box (the corners where the keepers take goal kicks from). The other two defenders
stood on 45 degree angles four yards further out. The reason for these token defenders was to force the servers to not just play the ball into the box
but to look for seams to play the ball into or over. There was a big emphasis on making near/far/12-yard runs into these seams.

While the one group was doing the crossing and finishing, the other group was doing the shooting activity. After 15 minutes, the two groups
rotated.

Diagram 142

Next, everyone went to the mini-field and we played

9 v 9 with keepers on a 60 x 44-yard area. The purpose for this was
to get them used to playing quickly and in small spaces as well as
9v9 to be accustomed to attacking into confined spaces since we expect
our opponent to pack it on Thursday. This game actually turned into
a fun game where players had fun attempting things they might
not normally do and while this wasn’t what we had planned for, it
actually worked well to end training this way.

Things ended with a quick jog and a stretch .

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Wednesday, November 7 - PM
This was a long trip (four hour bus ride, stay in a hotel, flight, then a 90 minute bus ride) so this was an easy session. Training started with a jog and
a stretch. The players then start knocking the ball just to get loosened up and to get used to the surroundings.

Next, we do shadow play with the second team representing tomorrows opponents. They lined up using the opponents formation and style of play
and we were able to recreate what we expect to see tomorrow. We did this for around 20 minutes. Next, we go through offensive and defensive
dead ball situations to make sure that everyone is on the same page.

For the first time this year, we also worked on penalty kicks because if a conference tournament game is tied after 90 minutes and remain tied after
four 14-minute overtime periods, the game would go to pk’s. However, this is a very difficult thing to recreate because the hard part about penalty
kicks is that you can’t duplicate the pressure in these situations. Training ended with a jog and a stretch.

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Thursday, November 8 - PM
The goals for today’s game were to win, get a lot of players on the field and get it over with without any injuries. We were able to score two early
goals and then control the rest of the game so that we could rest some of our players and also get others some playing time. All three of our goals
were accomplished. The first goal came on a free kick so our ability to score on dead ball situations has continued

Friday, November 9 - PM
The game today was the semi finals of the conference tournament. We went up on an early goal and were playing well but with approximately
10 minutes to go in the first half, an outside back played the ball back to our keeper without looking and there was an opponent right there. Our
keeper came out of the box to try to get to the ball first and mis-hit the ball. The ball went behind him and he fell backwards on it (don’t ask how
this happened because I saw it live and have seen it two more times on tape and still don’t know exactly what happened). His hands ended up on
the ball and he was immediately given a red card. The truth of the matter is that we are a good enough team that with a one goal lead, we still
should have been able to maintain (or even increase) the lead playing a player short. The keeper who took his place has started a number of games
this year and has been named defensive player of the week year in the conference one week so there was no concern about a “second string keeper”
in goal. However, the one thing that has been hurting us all year hurt us again which was a lack of leadership on the field. Rather than following
the game plan put out at halftime to not chase the ball, we made a couple of mental mistakes and ended up losing the game.

Saturday, November 10 - PM
Simply because we are stuck here till our flight Sunday evening, we went out to the field and had a jog and a stretch and then played a small game.
More accurately, it was a 10 v 10 game without keepers in a very small area with two benches as goals. The field was 50 x 35 and was very high
spirited. We did this for almost an hour and the players wanted to stay longer but we had to get off the field at that point. The whole purpose
of this session was to get loosened up and to have the players have fun (and also to occupy them because it’s hard to be in a hotel room all day
without something to do).

Sunday, November 11 - PM
We went to watch the finals today for one simple reason. We wanted the freshmen to see what it’s like to be at the finals and also for them to
know what it feels like to NOT be playing in the final so we don’t make that mistake again next year (when we are the host of the conference
tournament). We left immediately following the match for a long trip home.

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Wednesday, November 14 - PM
Training started today with a jog and a stretch.

As we have been doing a lot recently, we open up with ball work by doing 12 minutes of combinations with the circle activity. The reason I haven’t
been detailing the exact combinations we have been using is that quite frankly, it’s not that important. While it’s important that we continue to
work on combinations (and in this case, all of the combinations were third person running combinations), there are virtually an unlimited number
of combinations that can be done. Rather than worrying about the exact combination, we are simply emphasizing making runs, communicating
and doing everything sharply.

While the field players were doing the circle drill, the keepers went and warmed up. After the basic warm up, they did a catching drill to work on
catching and abdominal muscles.

Next, we went to the practice field and the first team defended for what was originally going to be a 20 minute period. The plan was to work on
low pressure defense (which is where we fell apart in our last game). The second team attacked at full speed and the first team worked on shifting
and defensive angles, as well as the distance from the ball and marking and shape. When the first team would get the ball, they would look to
counter quickly or to simply play the ball forward (at which point they would regroup and start to defend again). The second team was defending
a goal that was actually 30 yards out from where it normally would be because we were not interested in what was going on in the offensive 1/4
of the field so the field was now 90 yards long instead of 120 yards. While we intended for this to last 20 minutes, it actually took over 35 minutes
to get 20 minutes of play in because of constant stoppages of play to correct positioning errors. This was a somewhat frustrating session but very
productive.

Next, we switched it around and had the first team attack the second team. This allowed us to make sure the second team got work defensively and
also were able to work on the first team working on shape and balance in attack.

Next, we broke into three teams. Two played a small-sided game on the mini field and the third team does a shooting activity. There is a keeper in
a goal and four gates set up 20 yards out with three servers and one worker.

Diagram 143

The black player jumps over the near gate, then receives a ball played
by #1 through the gate. The player one touches the ball back through
the gate, jumps over it and then back, then receives a ball from #2
S1
and plays it back and jumps over that gate and back, then receives a
ball from #3 and plays it back and jumps over that gate and back then
S2 S3 jumps over the gate by #1 receives a ball directly at him, takes a touch
to the side and hits a shot. Then the next person goes. Each player
does this a total of five times and then this team goes to the mini-
field and another team comes over. This shooting activity works on
conditioning, passing, receiving and shooting as well as goalkeeping.

Training ends with a jog and a stretch.

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After the team has time to shower and change we get together to watch the first half of our last game. The reason for this is that we believe very
strongly that those who do not learn from their mistakes are destined to repeat their mistakes. One of the things we have to do is teach them to
watch games as a learning opportunity instead of simply as a spectator. One of the things that helps us in watching film is that we edit the tapes so
that any dead situation (ball out of bounds, after a goal, injuries etc) are edited out. It’s somewhat amazing how much dead time there is a normal
college soccer game and to eliminate this dead time on tape saves a great deal of time.

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Thursday, November 15 - PM
Training starts with a jog and a stretch.

Next, we separate into blues and grays. The grays all start with the ball and the move around and pass the ball to blues and get it back for a wall
pass. Because of the number of players in the 30 x 30-yard area the players must really keep their heads up and communicate in order to make sure
they pass the ball to someone who is ready and not involved in a different wall pass (keep in mind there are 14 balls going at one time in this grid).
This goes for two minutes at a quick pace and then gray gives the ball to the blues and this activity is repeated by the blues. The next two minute
period involves a similar activity but now gray starts with the ball, dribbles at a blue, does a takeover (working on communication and takeovers)
and then gray peels off and receives the ball from blue and blue takes off to receive this wall pass back. In short, grey starts with the ball, does a
takeover with blue, gray spins off and blue plays the ball to gray and then blue gets it back for a wall pass. This is working on dribbling, takeovers,
communications, wall passes and keeping the head up because otherwise with the number of people in this limited area, there will be massive
collisions. This goes on for four minutes and is done at quite a quick pace. The last step in this progression is gray starting with the ball and then
finding blue who plays it back and then spins off for a double pass (these types of patterns will be worked on throughout the season).

While the field players work on passing and receiving, the keepers go through a warm-up. Next they take some rapid fire shots to work on
reactions. Each keeper took 10 shots on goal as quickly as possible from 15 yards out. Each keeper took five sets of these shots.

Diagram 144

Next, is a crossing and finishing activity. Set up on half a field.

The balls start with the two central midfielders and they do
any type of combination play with the lone frontrunner which
should result in a shot on goal. As soon as they are done, the
two players on the left side do a wall pass with each other then
one takes it down to the end line and crosses the ball back to
the three central players who have made near post/far post/12-
yard runs for a finish. As soon as that is done, the same thing
happens from the other side. There are two groups doing this
and the players not involved rotate in.

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Diagram 145

Next, we set up a field that is 60 yards long and 44 yards wide

with big goals and a 20 x 20-yard area in the middle as well
as two lines that are 20 yards from the goal. There are four
defenders in the defending thirds of the field defending against
two attackers. In the middle box is a 2 v 2 situation. The players
in the middle must stay in their area. Anyone else is allowed
to go into the wide middle thirds of the field. In order to go to
goal, a player from the middle area must touch the ball. This
exercise is designed to make the center midfielders learn to
open up to receive the ball. It also works on getting our outside
backs to go forward and get into the attack (as this is a big part
of our attack).
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One of the things I want to remind people in using an activity such as this one, is that we use these lines as guidelines. We don’t stop play if a
player crosses over a line (for example if a back goes a step or two into the middle to win the ball). The reason for this is we don’t want to stop
them from playing the game in order to do a “drill”. This is something that we believe in very strongly and is true in all of the activities we use.

Next, we break into three teams. Two play on the mini-field and the third does two sets of plyometrics. Each team plays two games and does two
sets of plyometrics.

Practice ends with a jog and a stretch.

After practice, we watch the second half of the game on video and go over everything that needs to be done better if/when we play next.

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Saturday, November 17 - PM
Tonight was the Senior Banquet. One of the neat things about this program is that the soccer team has over 90 years of history. One of the
presenters at the banquet was a gentleman who was an All America in 1931. Another attendee was a member of the 1950 U.S. National Team that
upset England in the World Cup. This type of history makes the program a special one.

One of the awards that is given each year is for the player who best represents himself, his team, his family and has school on and off the field. The
player who received this award (which is voted on by the players and coaches) was a senior who was a walk on four years ago and now is an integral
part of our program. He grew up in the area and always wanted to play for this university. It’s nice to see someone achieve some of his childhood
dreams.

Sunday, November 18 - PM
Training started with a jog and a stretch.

Today’s session is a quick moving session that combines the things we did on Wednesday and Thursday.

The field players go through their 12-minute circle exercise while the keepers go through their warm up.

Next, we go to the crossing and finishing activity from Wednesday.

This is followed up with 15 minutes of the first team defending against the second team with the emphasis again being shifting defensively and
understanding angles and shape. This was done much better than last time.

Next, we switch it around and have the first team attack the second team. We added in some dead ball situations into this and did it for 15 minutes.

Next, we go to the game from Thursday with the 20 x 20-yard square in the middle. We did a much better job of getting combination play within
the guidelines of the game and after 20 minutes of this, took out the restrictions and went to more free flow play.

Next, we did five sets of 30-60-90-yard shuttles. As an aside, as a coach it’s easy to say “we will do five sets of shuttles” but it’s also easy to forget
that five sets of these sprints is actually over a mile of sprints with turns, and explosions.

Training ended with a jog and a stretch.

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Monday, November 19 - PM
Today was an off day but at 3.00 PM the team got together along with some members of the athletic department to watch the NCAA Soccer
Selection show. Although we felt pretty good about our chances of making the tournament, we didn’t know this definitely. We were happy to hear
not only that we had made the tournament but also received a bye for the first round and would be hosting the second round game.

The overall mood of the team was that now that we knew what we had coming up, it was time to get back to business

Training started today with a jog and a stretch. We then did the same passing combination drill that we did on Thursday, November 15.

While the field players are warming up with combinations, the keepers go and get a warm up in. There is a special emphasis on their body shape as
a tendency has been noticed of one of them diving slightly backwards so making sure the body weight is going forward was reemphasized.

Diagram 146

Next, everyone goes to the practice field to do a shooting and

combination activity. Players 1 and 2 pass the ball back and forth
then when they take a look up either 3 or 4 checks back to the ball
and any combination can be run from there using the four players.
Options include double posts, double passes, wall passes, overlaps
etc. As soon as a shot gets hit, then players 1 and 2 take the place of
3 and 4 and they do a similar combination with players 5 and 6. Two
new players take the spots where 1 and 2 were originally.

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Next, we have the second team attack the first team going three quarters field. The big emphasis for the week is going to be defensive shifting and
making sure that the players understand the importance of marking a man and not space even within our zone defense. As they are constantly
reminded, a space will never score on us but a man can. When the defending team gets the ball they try to counter attack quickly or just clear the
ball and defend again. This goes on for 25 minutes and then we switch around so the first team now attacks the second team.

Next, we play the same zone game as we did on Nov. 15th. This is done to get the players thinking about the responsibilities in the various parts of
the field. Also, it reinforces getting our backs to come forward and join in the attack

Next, we go to the mini-field and break into three teams of six plus keepers. Two teams play while one does S4 shuttles (10-10, 20-20 and 10-20-
30’s yards). In the mini games, it’s not just 6 v 6 but rather each team is playing with four backs and two forwards to get used to playing in a
formation.

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Training starts with a jog and a stretch. Then everyone does the passing and combination activity from November 15.

Next, the keepers go and warm up and work on distribution while the field players get more movement in by playing Team Handball. The winner of
this game was going to be the first team to three points with one point given for a goal scored off of a header. If there is a double header for a goal,
it counts as two points. Forty seconds into the game, there is a triple header for a goal which means three points and the game was over. The field
players then did the circle activity more to allow for the keepers to have time to get warmed up than anything else.

Next, we did the same three quarter exercise as yesterday. We just really want to keep reemphasizing that everything be done properly every time.

Diagram 147

Next, we play almost the same game as yesterday with the

change that there are now outside mids. When the ball goes
out wide to an outside mid, a back can join in offensively
to create a 2 v 1 situation in the attack. A forward CANNOT
follow the back in to defend. This is to force the players to
look for number up situations whenever possible. When
the ball is in the middle of the field a back can join in the
attack for 3 v 2. Now we have players constantly looking for
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Next, we go to the mini-field and break into the same three teams as yesterday. Two teams play and the third team does two sets of plyometrics.
They then rotate so each team plays two games and does two sets of plyometrics.

Practice ends with a jog and a stretch.

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Thursday, November 22 - PM
Training starts with a jog and a stretch. We then do the passing and combination activity from November 15. Next, the field players do
combinations out of their circle exercise. The big emphasis was on finding the third runner. While this is being done in one big circle, the grays are
only passing to the grays and the blues are only passing to the blues so frequently the third man is NOT necessarily real close. The circle exercise is
only done for eight minutes.

Next, we play another handball game to three but this one did last a bit longer. The purpose of playing this game was to keep the movement going
and to keep everything extremely upbeat. While the field players are doing their combinations, the keepers warm up and then work on crosses and
the appropriate footwork for crosses.
Diagram 148
Next, we work on combinations going to goal. The team is broken into
two groups with each group going to a different goal on the mini-field.
First, 1 passes to 2 who lays the ball back for 3 to shoot. Two follows the
shot and then 1 goes to 2 and 3 goes to the line behind where 1 started.
This is done for a while.

Next, 2 checks to the ball, and 1 plays a soft pass in. Two plays it back
to 1 and spins off to receive the double pass back. 1 pushes the ball
down the line and 2 runs it down and chops it back for 3 for a shot. The
keys here is for the initial pass into 2 to be soft to “sucker” the defender
into trying to win it for the double pass to work. Also, 3 must hold back
as this is NOT a cross but rather a ball that is chopped back for the shot.
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Diagram 149

Next, we do a serving and finishing exercise. This is still on the mini-

field so it’s 30 yards to midfield and 44 yards wide. 1 and 2 are servers
in the corners and the rest of the players (3’s) are at midfield. The ball
gets chipped out from 1 and 3 must either finish first or second touch
(the ball may NOT hit the ground before it’s struck so if it’s taken two
touch, it most likely will be a chest and a volley. As soon as the shot
is hit, the player gets back into position and the second ball is played
in from 2 on the other side. This is working on chipping, receiving,
heading, chesting, volleying and goalkeeping. Each player takes a
turn as a server and there is a LOT of great finishing going on here.
This is done on both goals
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Next, the two groups come together and it’s done as a contest to see which team can score more goals with each player from each team getting one
opportunity from each side. The surprising thing is that once we turn this into a competition, the level of finishing deteriorates significantly.

Next, we break into three groups and two play on the mini-field and the third group does some conditioning/movement activities. First the players
have to run slaloms around the cones. This is only a 10 yard area that is being covered but it’s working on sharp cuts and changes in pace. Each
player does this five times. Next, they work on lateral movement by sliding side to side with figure eight movements. Each player does this five
times.

Training ends with a jog and a stretch.

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Friday, November 23 - PM
Jog and a stretch for a warm up.

We then play two games of 3 v 3 v 3 each in a 20 x 30-yard area. This is to work on both possession to penetrate as well as to defend in three’s.

Next, the field players do the circle activity. The one difference this time is that the initial pass in is a chip instead of a driven ball. Everything else is
the same to find the third man running.

While the field players are doing the circle activity, the keepers get warmed up.

Next, the field players play a chipping game. They get in groups of two’s with the two players 38 yards apart. Each is standing in a 5 yard buffer
area. Player one chips the ball to player 2, if the ball is played into the buffer zone and player 2 can receive it with his chest, it’s worth 1 point. If
player 2 can receive the ball on his chest and volley the ball, it’s worth a second point. If player 2 can volley the ball back into player 1’s buffer zone,
it’s worth another point. If player 2 can volley the ball back to player 1’s zone and player 1 can chest it, it’s worth yet another point. If player 1 can
chest it up to his head and then head it, it’s worth yet another point (the most points a team can get is five points which is for a chip into the other
zone, a chest and volley back to a chest and a head. Each player in the group gets to initiate five chips for a total of 10 chips per team. This works on
chipping, receiving, volleying and chesting balls plus the players work hard and have fun.

The keepers are working on crosses from both the end line as well as early balls served in while the field players are doing the above.

Next, we go to crossing and finishing without defenders. This is a very upbeat session with crisp passing and good finishing. Lots of combination
work in this activity.

Next, we go back to the first team defending against the second teams attack on 3/4 field. While the players are getting tired of doing this over
and over again, they have to understand the importance of repetition of proper movement in order to make sure that the correct things are done
in games. Each team attacks for 20 minutes and defends for 20 minutes with the second team taking a lot of random dead ball situations in order
for the first team to get used to setting up quickly for all situations. Offensively, the first team worked on quick combinations and sharp runs in the
box.

Next, we went to the mini-field and broke into three teams of six (plus keepers). Two teams played while one rested. Games were for five minutes
or a goal and winning team stays on (if it’s a tie, the team that won last stays on). Very competitive work.

After the games, we practiced penalty kicks (just broke into two teams and went against each other). The hard part is recreating the pressure but
there is only so much that can be done.

Practice ends with a jog and a stretch.

The whole team went this evening to watch the game where we will play the winner on Sunday. While we have excellent scouting reports on both
teams, there is nothing like seeing a team in person. Most of what we saw was simply a confirmation of what we had been told but we were able
to find some additional pieces of information that will be worked on tomorrow in training.

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Saturday, November 24 - PM
Jog and a stretch for a warm-up.

Today is going to be a short session. We start with a quick warm up circle activity while the keepers get warmed up. Next we go to the practice
field for crossing and finishing. The players know this will be a short day so they really go at full speed and look quite good doing so.

Next, the first team plays defense for 10 minutes total just to work on NOT getting caught up too far when pushed up and to balance out in the
back at all times because of our opponents speed. We also worked on defending a long throw-in since our opponent has a good one. Plus we ran
through the opponents corner kick runs so the first team would see what they look like in defending them. The teams change around and primarily,
the first team works on free kicks and a couple of minor adjustments are made based on the way the opponent lines up to defend free kicks from
different parts of the field.

The two teams compete on penalty kicks again.

Next, we go back to the mini-field and play the three-team game with them rotating on a goal or five minutes.

Training ends with a jog and a stretch.

Sunday, November 25 - PM
The game today was quite interesting. We started off quite slowly and struggled to get into any type of a rhythm at all (partly because the game
was played in the rain). After halftime, we started to play more of our game and statistically completely dominated the match (24 shots on goal to
2 for the opponent and 12 corner kicks to 3 for the opponent). However, statistics don’t matter if you can’t put the ball in the back of the net. The
game went into overtime and finally we scored to win the game.

Some of the things that went well for us was our defensive shape and balance which we had emphasized a great deal all week as well as getting
balls out wide and serving it in (our crossing and finishing activity with combinations). However, the actual finishing part was our problem today
and will have to improve for us to get much further.

Conditioning proved to be a strength today both in terms of players being in shape to keep running but also players being healthy. We have had
very few players miss any time at all due to injury this season and I do believe this is a direct result of our conditioning.

Our next game is next weekend.

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Tuesday, November 22 - PM
Most of the players watched a video yesterday of our next opponent (we left a copy in the locker room for them to watch on their own time) so they
have a pretty good idea of what is in store for them.

Training starts with a jog and a stretch.

The field players go through their recent standard warm up of combination play in the 40 x 30-yard area and then 12 minutes of the circle activity.

While the field players are working on combinations, the keepers get warmed up.

Next, the keepers work on quick recovery. Balls were played in to the 18-yard area for a quick punch and then a second ball was chipped over the
keepers head. This was working on keeping the keepers focused on getting back into position after the first play is done.

Next, everyone goes to the practice field and we go first team defending against second team attacking. The second team lines up using our
opponents formation and style of play. I believe our opponent will be the best team we have seen all year in terms of organization. They play with
three midfielders who stay close together and that means making adjustments so this type of shadow work at full speed allows us to work on this.
Also, it allows us to practice defending against what they do on dead ball situations (based on what we have seen and what our scouting reports
say)

Next, we switch it around and have the first team attack the second team with the second team playing defense like our opponents. The big
emphasis was on playing faster in the middle of the field because of their swarming style of defense.

Next, we play a similar game to what we have been playing with the square in the middle except now there are three center mids going against the
starting two center mids for our team). Also, our starting center mids were also restricted to one-touch soccer to get them playing even quicker.

Diagram 150

Again, the emphasis is preparing for the high pressure in the middle
of the field on our center midfielders, also knowing that they attack
with their outside backs allows us to prepare for these situations.
The players MAY cross lines but must maintain shape and balance.

Next, we go to the mini-field and split into three teams. Two play
and one does S4 shuttles. Each team plays 6 v 6 plus keepers and
each team plays using a 4 - 2 formation.

Training ends with a jog and a stretch.

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Wednesday, November 28 - PM
Training starts with a jog and a stretch. The field players then play the chipping game from Friday, November 23.

We then did the same as yesterday with offense vs defense. Continued emphasis on shape and balance against the opponents system.

Next, we play small-sided games (the reason for these small sided games is to keep them playing and it allows us to work on the same basic shape
and balance as we do in a full sided game). Plus, it lets us make sure that the players see how the exercises and activities that we do carry over into
game situations.

Diagram 151

Next, we do a conditioning activity. Coaching poles are set up as

shown below. The players do figure eights through the poles and end
with a 20-yard sprint past the last cone. This was done five times by
each player.

Training ended with a jog and a stretch.

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Thursday, November 29 - PM
Diagram 152
Training starts with a jog and a stretch. The field players do their
12 minutes of the circle exercise in order to give the keepers time
to get warmed up.

Today, the emphasis is on combination play and finishing. Each

of these exercises are done in two groups going to two goals to
keep everyone involved. The first activity involves a three person
combination with a pass, takeover, hard push and a chop back to
a shot. Player A passes the ball to player B who then executes a
takeover with player C. Player C then takes a hard touch down
the line and chops the ball back for player B to finish. They rotate
with A going to B and B going to C and a new player coming on
for A.
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Diagram 153

Next, we do a similar combination with a double pass. Player

B checks back to the ball and receives a soft pass from player A
player A then gets closer to B and B passes the ball back to A and
then spins off for a double pass. B then chops the ball back to C
for the shot.

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Diagram 154

Next, Player B checks back for the ball just like he did in the previous
exercise and then plays the ball back to player A. Player C makes a
diagonal run to the corner receives the ball and chops the ball back
to player for the first time shot. Since we did each of these shooting
activities at full speed and for a long period of time, we end training
by breaking into three teams and play on the mini-field. This game
was quite intense and had a lot of the combinations that we worked
on in the previous activities.

Training ended with a jog and a stretch and then the team
showered, changed and boarded a bus for the first part of our trip.

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Friday, November 30 - PM
We are now at the site we will be playing tomorrow and the main purpose of today’s session is simply to get accustomed to the surroundings and
get a good stretch. Training started with an individual jog and stretch and then a team jog and stretch.

Next, we play a keep-away game using the center circle of the practice field as boundaries. Three players are in the middle and everyone else is on
the circle. Everything is one touch and if a player loses the ball, he, and the two players next to him, take the place of the players in the middle (this
works on looking further for a pass). If the three in the middle allow 15 consecutive passes, then they stay in the middle for an extra turn.

Diagram 155

The next activity is done with the 16 field players around the
center circle which has two small goals on the outside facing each
other.

It’s a 4 v 4 on the inside and the players can use their teammates
on the outside for support. The last player back is the keeper and
can use their hands. The reason for this game is it requires quick
touches and fast play and lots of vision. Plus the players had a
blast (it was actually very lively as the players really got into it.
When a team scores, the opposing team switches (so the players
on the inside go to the outside and the players on the outside go
to the outside. This game was played for around 20 minutes.
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While the field players are playing these two games, the keepers are working on receiving crosses on both chips and driven balls. Next, they work
on distribution starting with throwing, then dropkicking/punting and finally goal kicks

Training ends with a good long stretch,

Saturday, December 1 - PM
Today’s game (the round of 16) was an interesting tactical game as two teams played very different styles of play. The opponent was very patient
and knocked the ball around in the back a great deal simply probing for an opening. We, on the other hand, want to possess the ball in the
offensive half of the field and put pressure on their backs. We went up in the first half and they equalized early in the second half. With roughly 17
minutes to go in the match, one of our central backs was red carded on a call that we felt was questionable. We still had a couple of good scoring
opportunities but in the third overtime, we gave up a goal to end our season.

While this was a very disappointing way to end a season, from a coaches standpoint, it means we start working on next year right away.

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