Small Sided Games: Optimum Pitch Sizes for Technical and Physical Development
Channel: Football Network World
Date: 2020-12-15

Increasingly coaches are using small-sided games to develop and prepare players physically, technically and tactically.
But how much thought goes into the number of players used in these small-sided games, the dimensions of the playing area for these sessions and how it transfers to full-size 11v11 competitive matches.

Andrea Riboli - Atalanta Sports Scientist
Sigrid Olthaf - Sports  Scientist and Performance Analysts Liverpool John Moores University
Rui Sa Lemos - Ex-Head Coach Porto U23 

Our three presenters look at how to create small-sided game outcomes that relate to the game physically, Tactically and Technically based around principles of spacing, movement and intensity.