⚽️👇 Activity Instructions Below 🎨 Animation Created Using The... Tactics App In this unopposed finishing drill, four players are positioned in a diamond shape on the edge of the penalty area. The drill focuses on quick passing combinations and movement to create shooting opportunities. Players work through various combinations, ensuring that all four players are involved in the build-up before a shot on goal. The ball is played between the players in different sequences, such as one-touch passes, wall passes, or quick give-and-go’s. After completing the combination, the player receiving the final ball takes a shot at goal. This drill emphasizes precise passing, movement off the ball, and clinical finishing.show more

⚽️👇 Activity Instructions 🗣️ This is a Progressive Rondo... from Drill Library. This 3-grid rondo focuses on encouraging players to switch play effectively by utilizing the free player. In either of the end grids, the possession team will have a 3v1 advantage, while in the narrow central grid, they will play with a 2v1 overload. The aim is to create quick, dynamic play by using the space and the free player to maintain possession and shift the ball efficiently between the grids. 🎨 Animation created using The Tactics Appshow more

⚽️👇 Activity Description Below This is a Breaking Lines... practice from Drill Library. In this drill, players work on breaking defensive lines through quick ball movement and intelligent positioning. The aim is to find and pass to two teammates who are positioned beyond the opposition’s defensive line, replicating scenarios that occur in real match situations. The setup includes 3 players in possession versus 3 defenders in a locked central grid. The 3 attackers must circulate the ball quickly, using clever movement and combination play to disrupt the defensive structure. The team shape resembles a 2-3-3-2, with 3 defenders trying to block access while 2 target players wait beyond the line to receive a penetrating pass. ✅ Click below to view 700+ specialised & adaptable training activities ↙️ 💻show more

Understanding how the types of passes and movement in... the half spaces is important for creating goal-scoring opportunities. This combination and finishing pattern practice introduces players to these ideas.show more

Ajax Y Passing Drill❌❌❌ A simple passing practice used... by clubs such as Ajax & Barcelona to work with players on their passing and receiving skills, plus much more! • 3 Different variations within the video, however there are many more that you can use • Work on players passing weight & accuracy and ensuring they are passing to their teammates correct foot to allow them to receive the ball comfortably and then play at speed⏲️ • Working with players on their first touch so that it sets up their next action whether that is to put the ball in the correct place to then pass off their second touch or if they need to set their touch to then dribble or run with the ball🎯 #SundayShare The Coaching Family Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Sporting Resource SessionShareshow more

Brazil Passing Y Activity 🇧🇷 Focus: quick combinations, sharp... movement off the ball, disguise in the final pass, and finishing into mini goals. 📷 Full breakdown at UPHQ Watch | App Store & Google Play #footballcoaching #footballtraining #uphq #brazil #worldcup2026show more

⚽️ Cutback Small Sided Game 🗣️ This is a... practice from drill library. This small-sided game is played with 4v4 teams and 4 neutral players positioned at the 4 corners of the grid, known as the 'cutback' zones. The objective is to score 1 goal to win the game. After each goal, the losing team will switch with the neutral players, ensuring that both teams get equal opportunities in different roles. The neutral players are restricted to 1 touch, and the team in possession is encouraged to use them to create goal-scoring chances through quick cutbacks, crosses, or switching the play. The attacking team should aim to exploit the neutral zones to stretch the defense, pull defenders out of position, and open up space for a final delivery into the box. The defenders will need to be aware of their positioning and try to prevent passes into the neutral zones by maintaining close coverage on their opponents.show more

Interesting drill: In this one, the players cannot score... off the initial shot. Instead, they can only score off the rebound, which is aimed to get the players to drive the net and not rely on a strong first shot.show more

This goal is a coaching problem, never mind Zitha... diving in when he should have kept the shape. Four Chiefs players around a Stellies player and no pressing the man on the ball. How Chiefs plays without the ball is a coaching issue.show more

4v4+4 Possession➡️Crossing & Finishing🎯 • Make 5 passes in... the central area before you can break out into the wide areas • 2v2 in attacking box with wide players as crossers🎯 • If there is a goal, the team who conceded swap roles with the outside players and winners stay on Great practice with quick transitions and opportunities to work on breaking lines and working with attackers on making forward runs to join attacks at speed⚽️ Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Sporting Resource The Coaching Family SessionShareshow more

Golfers are strange 😂 When playing a Ryder Cup,... the crowd is going ballistic and the players love it and hit the ball with all that noise going on But a robot moving a few inches WHILE you are looking down at the ball and it’s “in the way” 😂 Focus on your shot and ignore the robotshow more

• Player A starts with ball on outside triangle... and passes deep to B • Player B bounces the ball back to C • Player C plays the ball to D • Player D plays to E and the pattern repeats • Players follow their pass Today's session is an inner/outer passing triangle... 🔺👨‍💻show more

Transfer Game⚽️ • Complete 4 passes before you can... transfer the ball to the other side • Must play into the middle player before you can transfer, they can set you back to then pass into the other side🎯 • If the defending team regain the ball they can score in the mini goal Rotate players around so that they all get an experience of being in possession and pressing players, highlight specific players to be the transfer player in the middle which helps them work on their development or strengths🗒️ Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Sporting Resource The Coaching Family SessionShare @_otlfcshow more

This is what the future of football will look... like, at least in the teams I coach. A mix of positional players- who give the team depth & support under the ball and functional players who are free to migrate to the ball zone. Moving actions aren’t exclusive to functional playersshow more

Hexagons and Octagons Those who follow football and coaching... will be well aware that there are trends that emerge and become the great break through in coaching, only to vanish quite quickly. A few stick around and become a staple. Such as the rondo, or the 4v4+4 Guardiola rondo variation. One that did not stick around in the coaching collective consciousness that possible should have was Thomas Tuchel’s use of hexagonal and octagonal playing areas in training sessions. Tuchel explained that cutting off the corners and angling the pitch forced “sharp diagonal” passes that would help break the press. The positioning of players outside the hexagon/octagon or players close to the edges will be manipulated into an open body shape by the angles of the pitch. Players are impacted by environmental constraints and embodied cognition, where the geography of the playing area influences their actions. This influence spreads to the creation of triangles and diamonds within the playing area due to the “funnel” like nature of the playing area. We can use the cut outside angles by placing bounce or target players on the exterior, influencing the movement and organisation internally. The inside players will not have to move wide as those areas are occupied. The internal players will seek to create passing angles using the positioning of the outside players and their internal team mates. The diamonds and triangles will appear. If we leave the spaces on the outside empty players can move to fill the spaces. These act as free spaces to receive from the goalkeeper or open spaces for attackers to overlap into, encouraging attacking combination play and crosses. A different way of using the space is to remove goals and goalkeepers from the ends and place bounce/target players on the outside. Players now can combine with the outside players, when they do so they are then free to finish into the outside goals. The condition can be extended to combining with the target player in the opposite side of the pitch before scoring, adding an element of switching play. The hexagon and octagon are versatile spaces that help to replicate aspects of the game. By funneling the spaces we impact players body shape, ability to play forward quickly, team shape (or small group shapes), players cutting in, defending centrally, the types of combination used and the angles of line breaking pass (diagonals). The angles are hugely significant for teams that value combinations and possession football, Straight passes and receiving angles are much easier to intercept and carry high risks for being counter attacked. Short diagonals can bypass players and attacking shapes, creating angled connections. If an angles pass is given away there is still a risk of being counter attacked but there is more chance of having players around the ball to regain possession. To counter press. The question that emerges is should we then be using hexagons and octagons more? If they are of greater benefit than squares and rectangles, why use them? Should all pitches, including those of a small sided nature be hexagonal? Can the rondo square be replaced by the rondo octagon?show more

Don’t be like this player. So many players still... don’t use boost efficiently, even though boost management is the most important skill in the game. A good guideline is to save boost for when you’re making a play on the ball and use your movement to get to the ball. Here is a player who uses all of his boost to chase the ball, and when he ends up low on boost, he keeps chasing anyway. This leads to him bumping his teammate and giving up an easy goal.show more

Baresi steal the ball from Platini in such blistering... way, dribbled past two players and create a shot opportunity out of nothing. no defender that ever played the game comes close to his geniusshow more

Too many players guard the ball passive. We need... our players to impact and disrupt the ball - No Comfy QBs. Here’s our 3-part progression: #1. 12 Seconds of Hell A continuous 4sec–4sec–4sec rep to teach layered ball pressure: 4 sec of ball tracing: hand above the ball (not across body), pressure passers, pop back on rips. 4 sec of live dribble: small space containment, stunt and recover. 4 sec of dead ball pressure: vocal pressure “DEAD DEAD DEAD,” limit vision, force back foot passes. #2. Man in the Middle A simple drill that goes back to childhood. 2 passers, 15 ft apart. No overhead passes. Defender must slap the ball to start each on-ball rep. If they force a deflection, errant pass, or movement from the receiver → passer is in the middle on defense. #3. Fake Game 1v1 with only 1 or 0 dribbles. Forces defenders to pressure and disrupt without getting blown by. If they sag too much, they give space for an easier shot or downhill free dribble. If they pressure, they learn to force wide and force tough shots. We call it HEAT. Every defender's heat is different, but everyone needs to impact the ball in some way. No spectators or statues on the ball waiting to be attacked.show more