Block 3 - Travelling with the Ball

 

As we return from the Christmas and new year break, we move into block three of our season long technical training syllabus. 

 

Block three see’s sessions focus on Travelling with the ball, focussing on a variety of technical themes including:

 

- Dribbling in tight spaces

- Dribbling to avoid pressure

- Travelling into space

- Travelling and combining/adding an end product (pass, shoot etc.)

 

Each session will always begin with players focussing for a short 10-15 minute period on our 8 core ‘FFE Ball Mastery’ moves. These moves are a crucial element of player technical development, it is proven that over time, repetitive competition of the same move at speed, using both feet improves players relationship with the ball, making them more comfortable and confident with the ball at their feet, thus enabling them a better foundation to develop more complex techniques and skills. 

 

Following the ball mastery, the session focus will switch to the travelling theme for the evening and will remain for the remainder of the session through unopposed practices, partially opposed practices and then ultimately opposed small sided games. The design of sessions this way enables players more opportunities to practice the particular technical element, whilst adding more pressure and realism as they develop a better understanding and grasp of the techniques. 

 

As always, the coaches will work closely with players to ensure a clear understanding along with providing feedback via their profiles on the FFE hub too. 

 

We hope you enjoy the next block of sessions, see you all soon.