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SESSION: defensive cover and balance

    FA regional education coordinator, Paul Quinn, delivers a coaching session focusing on defensive cover and balance with a group of grassroots players aged 5-11.

    Key objectives

    During this session players will develop their understanding of:

    • how to protect the goal as a team
    • making play predictable
    • identifying cues to press the ball
    • how the defensive positioning of the first player affects other individuals in the team.

    3v3

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    6v6

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    Gauntlet

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    QUESTIONS

    After you have watched this session, ask yourself the following questions:

    • How would you adapt or tweak the practice to make it appropriate to your own players?
    • What additional challenges could you set to make the practice easier or harder for individuals or your group?

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