AGILITY (with the ball): Print-Ready Session 06

Why Agility is so important for futsalers

Futsal is a dynamic sport with very often changing game situations and roles of players. At one point your team is in posession of the ball and you are in attack. In two seconds the ball gets intercepted and now you have to become a defender.

Each situation and each role make players take different decisions and also - use different skills. Futsal skills are not just technique (passing, shooting, receiving), but also such skills as endurance, speed, agility, strength, reaction etc. In fact, with out agility for example, futsal player would not be able to improve his receiving and passing skills much. So my message is this: remember - all skills are interconnected and interdependant from each other.

Futsal player must be a complete athlete, who has many different abilities, many different skills developed. Today will will talk about agility. Agility in futsal is one of the most important skills to train. Agility in futsal coaching should be divided into overall agilty and special agility. Overall agility is usually improve with such methods as different gymnastic exercises, diffrent dynamic games (such as basketball or voleyball, for example), relay.

Overall agility is very well improved also with the help of well-known exercises, but in new environment. For example - different surface, different directions, different obstacles etc. Special agility is improved with the help of the ball and this also should be a well-known exercise, but in new environment. For example players can be put in conditions, where they would have to use their technical, physical and mental skills in order to get out of a difficult situation in a game.

Objective: FUTSAL AGILITY (with a ball)

Structure of this training session:

• Warm-up drill (in this case - two)
• Preparation drill
• Main drill

We are going to take a look at 4 drills, which will help players to improve their agility. In this particular training session the main focus will be on improving agility with a ball.

When you take this set to a training session, drills should be used in the exact same sequence, as they are provided in this tutorial. Use warm-up drills in the beginning of the training session. Then in the main part of the training session use, at first - preparation drill. Then move on to the main drill.

Sequence of 4 drills

These are not just some random passing drills, but instead these are the drills, which are connected together. You have a thought-through sequence of 4 drills:

• two drills for a warm-up - the objective of these drills is to prepare player's muscles and player's decision-making for a training session, which concentrates specifically on agility training.
• preparation drill -  the objective of this drill is to prepare players to the main drill of this training session.
• main drill - the objective of this drill is to put player's into a match situation; dynamic and fun game will be simulating situations, which occur during a match and team players to deal with them.

These drills may not be the only ones, which you will use in the certain training session, although, make sure, that these three drills are certainly in it. Consider these three drill to be like a main carcass of the training session. 

It is also very important to use these drill in the training session exactly in the sequence, which they are presented with. 

Each drill consists of:

• good visualization on a tactics board
• instruction on, how to set-up the drill and also it's intensity and duration
• detailed instructions of the sequence of the drill

What do you get:

• Life-time Access to a PDF file
• 5 pages long PDF file - instructions for a training session and 4 drills
• Language - English

How to use the material:

Instructions and drill are made in a way, so it's easy to print them out and take to a training session. Materials are A4 format. You can also use these files on digital devices.

If you want to be maximum efficient with your preparation on a training session, then these are the materials, which will give you the best result possible.