Coach Assessment: Baboucarr Coker (assessed by Mattar M’Boge)

Session Topic: Defending (Positioning & Recovery)

Date 9.5.14 Group First Team - RDB Venue St Augustine’s High School

Intended Outcomes

What

We will learn how to defend in situations where we are outnumbered, looking at how to approach the player, body shape, and distance. With the attempt to make play predictable.

How

The session will set out to establish the technical information based on defending, and then move this into a game scenario where opportunities for 1v1 will happen, to promote match relevance.

Why

Reasoning behind this is to develop the principles of defending and understand the reasons behind the way we defend in order to build upon this in future matches

Session Plan Illustrations Set up : Input first challenges, /rest breaks will be used to have group discussion on defending principles, using either whiteboard/cones or other visual aid. Match relation: Will reinforce challenges as well as progressing to be more suitable for match, observation. Will highlight areas for learning & transfer of Part practice. Challenges/ Questions

Try to shape your body to be side on,

Try to approach the ball in an arc

Try to be close enough to the all to affect / dictate play.

With your body shapes try to make the attacker play a certain way.

What is the reason for trying to make the attackers play a certain direction?

Part 1 Part 2 Progressions

2v1 attackers vs defenders, both sets of players can switch roles so each gets to practise their defending

Increase overloads to 3v2, 4v3 etc. / Serve from alternate areas

Limit on touches, time limit for attackers to score, size of area, transition to full game

Observations & Notes Feedback

You must consider the relevance in a game situation when you are changing the overloads, for example 3 v 1

in favour of defenders makes it very difficult for an attacker to score.

Try to explain the rules of the game when all the players are together rather than having to explain twice to

different groups.

The size of area was not big enough for the number of players but you made the correct adjustment, well

done. However, when you went to your final overload of 7 v 5 in favour of attackers, the area remained the same.

Keep the tempo of the session high – the transition from one practice to the next should be quick and players should

not be allowed to hang around during this time.

Remember appropriate body position, coaching defending, including approach, shape, technique and

angle. Also remember to praise players for good work.

Good idea to use attackers and defenders in both situations so that attackers practice their defending as well.

Challenges were appropriate in the main but players may need extra challenges the next time this session is

run.

Good progressions throughout and you were willing to experiment as well. Just be careful of making sure it is

realistic to match situations.

Session review for improvement

What went well?

Even better if?

Change (Changes for next

session )

Game at the beginning highlighted what needed to be learnt and the game at the end highlighted the coaching points that had been learnt throughout the session -

good

Could you make challenges to suit individual players? For example, limit on touches, time

limit to score a goal, etc.

Attackers to do more defensive work so they can work together to

gain individual improvements in both elements of attacking

and defending

Be aware of group & individual challenges &

when it is appropriate to use either

Consider realistic

overloads

Coaching set-up allows lots of repetition and focus on technique of defending - good

Praise good defending and prioritise

coaching on defensive side of the game

Good intensity and tempo meant that repetitions were carried out with quality -

good

Give the defenders a motivation to win the ball – for example, one point for every time

they win the ball, clear the ball to target player