Improving speed play for fast break situations (TU 4)
Description:
The objective of this training unit is to improve free play in fast break situations. Following warm-up and a short game, the players play long passes during the ball familiarization phase which will be further developed in the goalkeeper warm-up shooting exercise. This is followed by a series of shots requiring precise passes. Afterwards, the players practice free play in outnumbered, open situations during fast breaks. A closing game with gradually increasing complexity completes this training unit.
The training unit consists of the following key exercises:
- Warm-up/Stretching (individual exercise: 10 minutes/total time: 10 minutes)
- Short game (10/20)
- Ball familiarization (10/30)
- Goalkeeper warm-up shooting (10/40)
- Offense/Series of shots (10/50)
- Offense/Small groups (15/65)
- Offense/Small groups (10/75)
- Closing game (15/90)
Total training time: 90 minutes
Difficulty:
Publishing information
1st English edition released on 14 Nov 2018
German original edition released on 16 Mai 2016
ISBN: 978-3-95641-288-2
Published by DV Concept
Editors, design, and layout: Jörg Madinger, Elke Lackner
Proofreading and English translation: Nina-Maria Nahlenz
This publication is listed in the catalogue of the German National Library. Please refer to http://dnb.de for bibliographic data.
The work and its components are protected by copyright. No reprinting, photomechanical reproduction, storing or processing in electronic systems without the publisher's written permission.
Key
Equipment required:
- 6-10 cones
- one small vaulting box
- 6 medicine balls
- 1 game of cards
- 8 foam noodles (foam beams)
- 2 ball boxes
- each with a sufficient number of handballs
TU 4-1 Warm-up/Stretching (10/10)
Course:
- The players make teams of 2, with each team having a ball.
- The players crisscross the gym pairwise while doing different running and passing moves (passing with the throwing hand/non-throwing hand/jump shot passes/wrist passes/passes behind the back).
- After some time, the players gradually increase the distance to each other so that they must play long passes in the end.
Afterwards, the players perform stretching/mobilization exercises together.
TU 4-2 Short game (10/20)
Setting:
- Put medicine balls on the floor in front of each goal line, make two teams.
Course:
- The players initially play team ball in the bottom half of the playing field.
- While doing this, the team in ball possession tries to play five passes in a row, avoiding that the other team wins the ball (A and B).
- The players count the passes loudly.
- If a team manages to play five passes in a row, the players immediately start to run towards the other half of the playing field (C), with the player in ball possession initiating the fast break (D).
- By moving in a well-coordinated manner (E) and passing the ball cleverly (F), the attacking players try to get a player into a good shooting position (G), and to eventually finish the action with a shot at the medicine balls.
- The other team tries to interrupt the fast break (H).
- If the attacking players hit a medicine ball so that it rolls into the goal, they get a point.
- After the shot, the former defending team secures the ball at once and starts to pass it in the upper half of the playing field.
- Which team has scored highest when all of the medicine balls have rolled into the goal or out of the playing field?
TU 4-3 Ball familiarization (10/30)
Setting:
- The players make pairs. For each team, position two cones at a large distance to each other (see figure).
Course:
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