TABLE 1.

Usual soccer training session of young soccer players during intervention.

	Exercise	Duration (min)
Technical drills	– Ball control, ball pass, ball conduction and dribbling, feints and moves, positional rotations, combination passing, crossing, ball kicking, ball heading.	~ 20
Tactical drills	– Defending Functional Drills: Functional soccer training for specific defending positions in soccer (like centre defenders, outside backs, etc). – Attacking functional drills: Functional soccer training for specific attacking positions (like centre forwards, wingers, attacking mid-fielders etc). – Corner kicks situations. – Penalty kicks.	~ 20
Small-sided games (SSG’s) with or without goal	– Keeper and with or without change of soccer rules (e.g., one touch pass, only heading goals) – Attacking SSG’s: One team is coached on a specific coaching objective, (e.g. Coaching Forward Runs, Creating Space, etc). These games may also involve ‘floater’ players or support teams to achieve coaching objectives. – Defending SSGs: One team is coached on a specific coaching objective, e.g. compact defending. These games may also involve ‘floater’ players or support teams to achieve coaching objectives.	~ 20
Simulated competitive games		~ 30