After Mike has had 5 attempts on the long passing exercise, he will move on to the short passing exercise, this involves quick movement of his feet. I will be doing two exercises on short passing. In the first one I will be stood still and Mike will be passing me the ball and I will pass it in another direction he has to get to the ball quick turn on the ball and pass it back to me. We will on be in a small area, the passes will be fast so he needs to be ready to react to where I pass the ball and then give me a good pass. For the next exercise I will be running with the ball and Mike will be running in front of me but backwards so he is facing me, I will be passing him the ball and he can either control the ball and pass it back while we are both running or he can pass the ball back to me first time. We will pass the ball to each other 20 times and then we will swap and he will pass the ball to me while I am running backwards, we will again do 20 passes. This will get Mike shaper when passing the ball and receiving the ball, also improving his passing technique.
After the passing exercises there Mike will be doing my dribbling exercises. This will only be for 30 minutes as there isn’t much Mike can do, without repeating the exercise.
Mike will start with the ball and I will stand off him while he runs at me using lots of skills and speed to get around me. I wont put a challenge in I will just back off. This will improve Mikes dribbling skills and also encourage him to take on players more in game situations. I will only do this 3 times with Mike as it’s not very interesting. After this I will place 10 cones 1 metre apart and Mike has to dribble in between each cone using both feet, and once he gets to the end of the cones I want him to run at the goal keep and either shoot past him or try and dribble past him using tricks. Once Mike has done this, I will have set up objects that Mike has to get over or get round. There will be objects like boxes that Mike has to chip the ball over and sticks in the ground Mike has to dribble round also a tunnel that Mike has to pass the ball through and collect it at the other end, once he receive the ball he has to stop past the goal keeper. This will be Mikes dribbling training complete.
Mike will have a short break to rest before his shooting practice, as he has already been training for one hour fifth teen minutes. To start his shooting exercises I will stand behind Mike, who is facing the goal, and I will throw a ball over his head so he has to react to the ball being thrown. Once he has reacted to the ball he has to run to it and shoot past the keeper. This could happen in a real match, where the ball is played over the defence. This will be done five times. Another exercise is for me to stand next to Mike, while he is facing the goal and I bounce the ball in front on him. Once the ball is at a suitable height Mike has to volley it and try and score, it is his judgement that decides when to strike the ball. Mike needs good judgement as a striker, so this will help him in a match situation.
The third exercise is where Mike passes the ball to me and I lay it back to his right or left and he has to shoot, but there will not be a goal keeper in, instead I will run tape across the goal like shown below.
Once I have passed the ball back to Mike he has to shoot into the part of the net I say, for example I can lay it off to his left and tell him to shoot in section 2, and this means he has to shoot low and in the right hand corner. Mike will have to get his shots accurate if he is to succeed in my training. Mike will have 10 attempts on this and I will count the amount he gets in the designated areas and I will see if he improves through out the six week training programme.
This will be Mike Friday training session almost complete, as he has to do a warm down this will get his heart rate back to normal and remove any lactic acid still in his muscles.
