Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Attacking Exercises to Improve Decision-Making
By Ray Power
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In soccer, attacking sessions are loved by players. The chance to be creative, attack, and score goals is hugely prized by players at all levels of the game.
The final piece of soccer is creating and scoring goals, and it has the reputation of being the most difficult part of the game – not many other sports can commonly offer results that do not involve a single goal or point being scored.
Many coaching sessions are flawed when it comes to linking attacking practices to the actual game of football. Too often players are placed in queues, waiting their turn, before dribbling around a static, predictable line of cones and shooting from a fixed position. The Attacking edition of The Deliberate Soccer Practice series attempts to address this by evoking the concept of real game ‘returns.’ Utilising the exercises in this book, players will learn how to finish, the intricacies of forward play, and how to develop attacking skills in a purposeful way – all within the context of what they will face on game day. Most of all, the players will love them!
Aimed at football coaches of all levels, but with a particular emphasis on coaches who work with youth players, 50 Attacking Football Exercises to Improve Decision-Making is comprised of 50 practices, and carefully designed to be adaptable to suit the needs of the players you work with. The exercises will challenge them and give them real-world decisions to make.
About Ray Power: Ray Power is a former Academy Coach, Academy Manager and FA Coach Educator. He is now the Technical Director in Tanzania, working alongside Sunderland AFC, and the Tanzanian Football Federation as coach educator and Elite Football Academy manager. Ray also leads extensive talent identification projects in the country. Ray is also a former teacher and author of several other books based around youth soccer development.
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Deliberate Soccer Practice - Ray Power
Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Attacking Football Exercises to Improve Decision-Making
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Published in 2016 by Bennion Kearny Limited.
Copyright © Bennion Kearny Limited.
ISBN: 978-1-910515-70-9
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Feedback
Bennion Kearny Soccer Coaching Books
Deliberate Practice & Attacking
What is Attacking Football?
Four Phases of the Game
‘Critical Attacking’
Mastering the Ball
Returns
Conclusion
Ball Mastery
1: Ball Mastery
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2: Ball Mastery - Gates
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3: Carbon Copy
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4: Dribbling Chaos
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5: Dribble for Points
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6: Attacking Space with the Ball
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7: Ball Juggling
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8: Football Tennis
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9: Aerial Mastery
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10: Ball Mastery Mash-Up
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Preparing to Finish
11: Dribbling Game
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12: Dribble into 1v1s
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13: Running with the Ball SSG
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14: Penetrative Passing
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15: Forward Runs & Penetrative Passes
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16: Switch Play & Dribble
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17: Change the Point of Attack SSG
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18: Crossing SSG
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19: Crossing to Finish
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20: Outnumbered in Attack
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21: Combination Play in Final Third
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22: Finding Space
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23: Playing Between the Lines
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24: Beating the Block
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25: Attack Quickly
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26: Counter-Attack SSG
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27: Constant Counter-Attack SSG
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28: Attack & Counter-Attack
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29: Set & Finish
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30: Set & Shoot SSG
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Finishing
31: Lone Striker Finishing
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32: Lose Marker to Finish
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33: Finishing when Outnumbered
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34: 2v2 In / Around the Box
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35: 2v2v2 In / Around the Box
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36: 3v3 Finishing
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37: Outnumbered Finishing
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38: Attacking to a Finish
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39: 4v4+4
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40: Finishing Square
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41: Four Goals
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42: Big Goals & Small Goals SSG
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43: Back-to-Back Goals SSG
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44: Shooting Chaos
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45: Long Range Shooting
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46: Intense Finishing
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47: Head / Volley to Score
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48: Bingo Card Finishing
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49: Zone Finishing
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50: Critical Finishing
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