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These articles are on the NASL website:

• Breakaways - A Defensive and Attacking Exercise by Ken Gamble
• Jeff Pill's Practice Session on Small Group Defending
• 2v2 Defensive Introduction
• 2v2 Development - Second Defender Support
• Working the Ball out of the Back
• Defensive Shape and Dynamic Runs by Lawrence Fine
• Counterattack from Defending Corner Kicks
• Angle of Approach by Forwards Pressuring Defensively by Lawrence Fine
• Staying Compact Defensively by Lawrence Fine
• Defensive Recovery
• Exercise of the Day - Numbers Up/Down
• Exercise of the Day - Offside Trap Training
• Exercise of the Day - 5v5v5 Transition
• Flat Back Four Defense - Zone 101
• Flat Back Four Defense - Zone 102
• Flat Back Four - Clarifications to Zone 102
• 1v1 Defending - Taking Possession
• 1v1 Defending - Recovering
• 1v1 Defending - Maintaining the Mark
• 1v1 Defending - Containment
• 1v1 Defending - Turning
• 1v1 Defending - Defensive Presence
• 1v1 Defending - Reducing the Angles
• Flat Back Four - Individual Footwork
• Flat Back Four - Individual Close Down
• Flat Back Four - Individual - Support
• Flat Back Four - Individual - Recovery
• Flat Back Four - Individual - Double Team
• Exercise of the Day - Stop The Through Ball
• Building A Zonal Defense Structure (.PDF)
• Emphasize (Fun) Defense
• Practice Tip - Defensive Positioning - Sideways
• Exercise of the Day - Recovery
• Exercise of the Day - Shifting D
• 1v1 Defending - Pressure
• Zonal Defending by Tony DiCicco
• No Tackling 1v1
• Two Target 1v1
• Beat the Ball
• Anticipating Play
• Flat Back Four Training Part I
• Flat Back Four Training Part 2
• Exercise of the Day - 1v1 Transition
• Exercise of the Day - 1v1
• Teaching Legal Charges
• Training Players How to Compress During Play
• Rules for First Defender
• Flat Back Four - Off-Ball Positioning
• Flat Back Four - Implementing
• Flat Back Four Defense - Communication
• Defending Tactics in the Back Third by George Perry: Canterbury School
• Defensive Commandments (as soon as possession is lost)
• First and Second Defender
• King of 18 - Transition from Offense to Defense
• Defensive Soccer Thoughts
• Compressing the Field (Defense)
• Jeff Pill's 1v1 Individual Attacking and Defending Practice Session
• Individual Attacking and Defending by Lawrence Fine
• Animal Ball by Lawrence Fine
• Offensive and Defensive Spacing Activity by Lawrence Fine
• Training the Outside Backs by Lawrence Fine
• Dribbling Exercise Including First and Second Defenders
• Spread Offensively, Compact Defensively
• Training Defensive Compactness
• Training the Featured Player and an Exercise on How to Defend Against The Featured Player - FineSoccer.com

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These articles are on other websites:

• Tackling
• Practice Session - Double Teaming

• Run the Gauntlet

• End all

• Closing down

• Closing down and facing the attacker

• 3 v 3

• 4 v 2 stop forward play
• 5 v 3 working to win the Ball back
• 3 Seconds to recover
• When 1 becomes 5
• Support in Order
• Defending a fast frontrunner
• Zonal Defending
• High Pressure
• Defending the overlapping run
• Defensive role of the outside mid
• Giving chase
• Defending the throw in
• Defending the wall pass
• Defensive Headers
• Protection Offensive and defensive techniques
• Break-away - Closing
• Teaching Defense
• Teaching Defense - Steal The Bacon
• Sheparding
• Defensive Recovery
• Close Down
• Pushing It Wide
• Marking / Transition
• Second Defender
• Mark Your Own Man
• Shoulder charge
• Communication
• First defender
• Second defender
• Defending duals
• 1v1 halves
• Man-marking game
• Basic marking
• Stop Players Turning
• Stop Forward Play
• 4v2 Plus 2
• 4 Goal 4v4