Set Pieces

Transition Free Kick Zone Practice

Practise deliveries and strikes from set positions

Set Pieces

Shooting

Attacking

Transition Free Kick Zone Practice is a 16-minute set pieces drill for 3-16 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, full goals, poles. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.

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Set Pieces

Shooting

Attacking

Technical Practice

Intermediate

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Full Squad

Agility Kit

Youth Friendly

Adult Suitable

Goals Needed

Transition

Duration

16 min

Players

3-16

Pitch size

38 x 34 yards

Ability levels

Intermediate / Advanced

Pitch diagram

Transition Free Kick Zone Practice — Marked area · 38 x 34 yards

Step 1 of 5Take three kicks from each zone in turn.

1. Take three kicks from each zone in turn.
2. Central zones are struck at goal, wide zones are delivered.
3. Runners attack every delivery.
4. Coach serves a loose ball into the middle and both teams react to win it.
5. On every turnover the winning team has six seconds to attack the opposite target.

Cones mark the area
Dashed lines = zones / thirds
Ball
Poles to dribble / run through
C = coach / server
Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble

Objectives

-Practise deliveries and strikes from set positions
-Decide between shooting and delivering
-Rehearse the routine with a wall in place

Setup

1Three marked free kick zones around the edge of the area with a pole wall in a 38 x 34 yards area.
2Mark a second target area at the opposite end so the practice can flip direction instantly.
3Balls at each zone, poles for the wall, keeper in goal.

Coaching instructions

1Take three kicks from each zone in turn.
2Central zones are struck at goal, wide zones are delivered.
3Runners attack every delivery.
4Coach serves a loose ball into the middle and both teams react to win it.
5On every turnover the winning team has six seconds to attack the opposite target.