Connecting to Win: Putting It All Together

Two-time NSCAA Great Lakes Regional Coach of the Year Brent Ridenour shows you a number of games and exercises for teaching team to work together to build attacks. These exercises will enable your players to better understand their roles when attacking and will improve their ability to look up and find their targets.

Coach Ridenour shows several target play exercises that will maintain players' interest level and energy as they constantly move to create space or find the open man. Involving two teams in these exercises adds a defensive element and trains defenders to close down space, while teaching attackers to maneuver around and be more precise with their passes and touches. Your players will gain a better understanding their options and be able to make good decisions.

Learn how to split the field into smaller sections or reduce the overall size of the whole field to work on different offensive and defensive concepts. Challenge your players to move the ball around with confidence and help them recognize their options in game-like situations. Train them to look forward first so that they're not settling for the simple pass, but attacking quickly and efficiently.

Use Coach Ridenour's strategies to enable your team to maintain possession and generate more shots on goal against any defensive pressure or formation.

64 minutes. 2013.