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Transformational activities for my U11 team-
The addition of the 4 v 2 + 1 Rondo and the 7 v 3 Rondo to the other exercises (I also added a variation to the 7 v 3 that Ill discuss later)
These poession based activities with a target player in a tight space has led to great improvement with my players ball movement. While the traditional Rondo will always be a key excercise in what I do these drill provide my players with a much better tactical objective that has led to better results on the field as a whole. They simulate the ball movement we are looking for in the context of the game.
I created a variation of the 7 v 3 that has really paid off as well. I split the rectagular grid in half, then I made it at 8 v 3 with two central mids. The same outer shell but with an added center mid. Only one center mid can be in a grid at a time. This extra player simulated the withdrawn forward or attacking mid as well and the defensive mid as another layer and a very important one. My players were always looking for the #9 or the center back to target whether playing the ball forward or back to reset. Now they look for the holding mid or the withdrawn forward much more and are using both to switch the field of play. Our goal scoring output has increased and we have dominated the time of poession in our last 5-6 games since running the new possesion drills and the variation.
My 10 year olds have commented on how much they have helped them as well.
My son’s club team uses something very similar to this and i believe it has helped them tremendously in terms of maintaining team shape, ball distribution, etc., support, finding the center mid, etc.
I have modified the double rondo a bit. We start 4 v 1 +3, after team a has completed 5 passes, team b can send a second defender into the possession game to make it 4 v 2 +2. The game repeats and if the team a is able to complete 5 more passes then the team b can run another defender in. If there is a turnover then the ball is played to the opposing grid where team b possession game begins 4 v 1. In theory this would progress until a team was able to hold the ball beyond 5 passes 4 v4 in a 10 x 10 box. My U11’s have only made it to 4 v 3 thus far.
Eric, for reference, did your original 7v3 a rondo have 5 perimeter players + 2 midfielders vs 3 defenders? I’m trying to understand your progression.
Hi DK-
I used 6 perimeter players but with 4 on the wide side of the rectangle and a single player on the shorter side to simulate looking for the target player (reminder we switched to a 4-2-3-1 due to the players we have) and a single mid. We then added the 2nd mid with the rule that only one can be in an area at a time. Our outside mids have to really run and rondo up
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