Individual and small Group Training for Strikers

The exercises of the books are set–up and organized as follow:

• The spaces are set-up with grids that correspond to the attacking areas throughout the field’s final third (18 x 25 metres) each.
• There is always a regular goal with the goalkeeper to finish, wherever the practice starts.
• The striker must always beat an opponent (passive at the beginning and then fully active) before shooting.
• When the defender wins the possession dribbles the ball toward the zone 14 and the striker has 6” to recover the possession and then he can try to score again (to coach the principles of play of recovering the ball in that field’s area).
• The striker may face also a time pressure, when he must score within a fix limit of time.
• The strikers (from 2 v 1 to 3 v 3 practices) may start the sequence inside the same grid or inside different grids or they could be required to overload a specific area to create numerical advantage before shooting on goal.
• When defenders are more than one and they can win the ball, they always have to pass it inside zone 14, as in the 1 v 1 practices, and the strikers have 6” to recover the possession to try to shoot on goal again.
• Even in the small group practices, the strikers may face also a time pressure, when they must score within a fix limit of time.
• All the small group practices include the developments of the team’s possession principles of play while attacking (overlaps, underlaps, blind side run, direct and indirect attacks, cut, triangle passing combinations and 1 v 1 duels before passing).