Support Play - Busy Bees
Support a player in a box before moving on. Only 1 defender in a box. Score in white goals at the end. Need to move the ball from one end to the other. Need to dribble it through goals or shoot?
Start with 5vs2 to allow the players to get used to it
Move to 4vs3 when they are used to it to provide additional challenge.
Busy Bees always move to support a player in the box. Number of support plays equals number of goals.
Introduce other goals - Coach calls out blue goals to change the dynamic and direction of the game - additional challenge. Introduce wingers to provide support at the wings. Have 3 seconds unchallenged on the wings. Introduce zones? - central, left and right zones.
Use two halfs of 7 players and then switch to full size game 7vs7. Keep same principles in full size game.
Learning points:
Support play
Always be thinking about moving to support even if you don't have the ball. A busy bee!
Think about supporting from different directions the ball. No option to play forward - move the ball sideways or back.
Questions - don't give the answer!: group discussion.
What do you have to be thinking even if you are not going to the box where the player is?
Change the colour of the goals at each end and give the attacking team the objective of scoring at a specific colour goal.
At what other points in the game can we be busy bees - e.g. corners, free kicks, throw ins, defending. Support play is an important principle of play! What happens if we don't support players?
Support
Supporting the player in possession through the movement of players off the ball. Important coaching points to be associated with support are: angles, timings, distance of the support provided
Width
Provding options (laterally) across the pitch. This creates larger gaps between defenders which, in turn, create opportunities to exploit the space and play forwards. The idea is to make the pitch big, look for gaps and play through or arround the opposition.
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