Training Units
Level: High
This training unit focuses on the saving technique of the goalkeepers for shots at the middle and top of the goal. Good agility is prerequisite for this. Following warm-up, there will be an exercise which combines the basic goalkeeper movements with coordination ladder drills. In the ball familiarization ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on improvement of fast adjustment from offense to defense movements. Following a warm-up running exercise combined with an adjustment task and a coordination drill, the players practice how to quickly react to signs during the ball familiarization phase. The goalkeeper warm-up ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on step-by-step development of an initial action in outnumbered situations with a positional change from the center back position player to the 6-meter line (second pivot). Following warm-up and a short game, the running and passing paths for the initial action are introduced ...
Level: Medium
It may happen that several players at a time cannot attend a training unit due to illness. This training unit focuses on series of shots and preparatory exercises for five field players and one goalkeeper. The warm-up phase is followed by a short game, the ball familiarization phase and the goalkeeper ...
Level: High
The objective of this training unit is to practice the interaction of the goalkeeper with his defense players. Following warm-up with a short game, the players practice the legwork required for proper defense play during the ball familiarization and the goalkeeper warm-up shooting phases. With the subsequent ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on improving the defense 1-on-1 and 2-on-2 in small groups. Following warm-up and a tag game, the players enter the ball familiarization phase which will involve typical defense movements. This is followed by an individual defense exercise with quick adjustment and the goalkeeper ...
Level: Medium
The purpose of this training unit is to practice how to actively get into physical contact and to collaborate in order to prevent breakthroughs. Following warm-up and a sprint contest, the players defend against the attacking players as a team during the first defense exercise. The following exercise ...
Level: Top
This athletics unit focuses on improving speed strength endurance. After warm-up and a short game, five athletics exercises train the various groups of thigh muscles by moving forwards, backwards, and to the side. This training unit is very intense and can thus be incorporated in preparation periods or season ...
Level: High
The objective of this training unit is to develop a simple initial action after a fast throw-off. Following warm-up and a coordination run exercise, the players practice the basics during the ball familiarization phase and the goalkeeper warm-up shooting. During the three subsequent exercises, the players ...
Level: Low
This training unit focuses on breaking away from man coverage without a ball, by means of running feints. Following warm-up, a sprint contest with changes of direction, and a team ball variant, the players practice quick changes of direction one more time during the goalkeeper warm-up shooting exercise. ...