How To Take Football Training Sessions

Hi. My name's Matt Dilworth. I'm a Saturday Intermediate League goalkeeper, and I also run and manage my own Sunday League side.

And today, I'm going to take you through some football basics to help get you started. How to take a football training session. Training sessions are the best chance for you to get your players together before or during season, to work on different things, routines, ball work, etc.

, so you can be best prepared for the coming matches at the weekends. The best thing for training sessions, for a leader, is to plan ahead. Make sure that you know that you've got the basis of what you want to do during the session, how long you want to do each thing for, and make sure that your players aren't standing around in the middle of the winter.

If you're holding them down, freezing cold, and you're still messing around trying to figure out what you want to do, they're only going to become disgruntled and agitated. So, make sure that you've got what you want to do in plan. To start off with, you want a good, thorough warm up.

Different exercises, some ball work, and then have some drills, and have some progression to these drills as well. So if you're starting off a passing routine with a couple of players, build it up, then make it include another player, include a defender. Make sure that there's some progression, something your players can work towards.

It's important that there's always one leader. If you're taking a session, make sure that your players know that you are, and that you've not got a thousand voices trying to speak up, trying to run the session. This only causes confusion, and you'll end up not having a productive training session.

It's also very important to vary your training sessions. You don't want your players turning up every week and doing the same thing over and over again. Players will soon lose interest, and you'll end up with dwindling numbers, and you'll only have a couple of people turning up for training.

Make sure you've got different things to do, different things to work on, and do that differently week by week to keep the interest there and keep the attendance levels high. .