HANSI FLICK, POSSESSION REACHING SPACES

📝 1. Description of exercise

Possession exercise with tactical directionality, where teams must take the ball to pre-established areas that represent key spaces according to the game idea (between lines, inside lanes, zones of progression, etc.). In addition to maintaining possession, intentionality and tactical orientation are required, favoring the reading of the game, the rational occupation of space and structured defensive pressure.

📐 2. Organization and Development

• Two teams face each other in a medium or large space, delimited by specific areas (rectangles, lanes, sectors).

• The objective is to get the ball into one of these spaces to score a point (e.g. between the lines or third man).

• You can set assigned receivers that must receive within these zones for the point to be valid.

• To prevent the defense from focusing exclusively on zones, an alternative scoring criterion is also introduced: after a certain sequence of consecutive passes (e.g. 6 passes), scoring also takes place.

• This forces defenders to actively press, not just cover zones, and encourages dynamic possession.

🎯 4. Tips or main aspects

• 🎯 Possession with purpose: it is not about conservation for conservation's sake, but about moving towards strategic areas.

• 🧭 Collective tactical reading: players must identify which zone to attack and when to attack it.

• Total defensive concentration: combine zonal marking with active pressure depending on the situation.

• 🔄 S tructured mobility: avoid accumulation and favor offensive and defensive positional balance.

🔄 3. Variants

• Change target zones (interior, lateral, deep zones).

• Limit the number of touches according to the area of the field.

• Include interior or exterior wildcards.

• Introduce mandatory pressure zones for the team without the ball.

• Increase number of players needed in previous sequence to score (2nd and 3rd man).