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COACHING CARD
Volume 14 | Issue No 3 | PEIL Autumn
Improve one
on one defending
WHAT DO I NEED TO SET UP
THESE ACTIVITIES?
• Cones, Footballs and Bibs
• Whistle
WHAT WILL ACTIVITY LAYOUT
LOOK LIKE?
See Above
SET UP:
• Set up mini grids about 10m x 10m.
Assign four players per grid, two
defenders and two attackers!
• Attackers on one corner of the grid while
defenders on the opposite side of the grid
• Attacker has the ball in their possession
with head facing down
• On the coaches first whistle, the defender
runs from their corner towards the
attacker, on the second whistle attacker
looks up and tries to evade the oncoming
defender
• The aim for the attacker is to get to
the far corner of the grid (where the
defender came from), while the aim
of the defender is to delay the attack
via pushing player onto non dominant
side, deny them forward movement and
dispossess when opportunity arises
NOTE – In this activity, defenders
sometimes 'dive in' too early and get
evaded easily. Important defenders has
good feet, body positioning and hands
in order to have best opportunity to
dispossess their opponent.
