Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): U10: Possession and Individual Control

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Gregg Megaw

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Name:	Gregg Megaw
City:	New York
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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This session would be beneficial for youth players to recap skills and the tactical elements and in the latter half of the season after covering the desired topics thoroughly. The players will promote competition between players where all techniques will be assessed; players will be awarded points for successful completion of technically clean skills and for hard work.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Screen 1

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Learning Objectives

	Technical Wholistically improve skills associated with keeping possession, passing and recieving
	Tactical Asking questions could the individual move to help teammate on the ball
	Physical Game situational conditioning
	Psychological Can players maintain focus when not in possession
	Social Communication when combining

Screen 1 (15 mins)

Practice 1

Small-sided game, (Whole/Part/Whole) as kids arrive have them play 1v1 into 2v2 max 4v4, where the coach uses restrictions such as every player in the team must touch the ball before the team is permitted to score a goal. Use cones to chamfer the sides so that it is conducive to a u10 field size.

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Practice 2 (15 mins)

Practice 2

Players will then regress from the small-sided game into an individual scenario with a 1v1 ladder which will be played for points. Each ladder will be in 20x30 grids with 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss.

Players will be encouraged to be creative and perform skill moves to beat their opponent. Each player should;

•Dribble with game-speed towards opposing player

•Keep their head up

•Creating space to get to oppositions goal by completing skill moves

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Practice 3 (20 mins)

Practice 3

The players will then move from the individual game situation to working to combine with a partner before getting to the oppositions goal. The grids will be slightly increased and the 2v2 ladder is set out with the 2 sets of players having to score by stopping the ball in between two cones. There are no outs in this game and the game is continuous.

The coaching points for the 2v2 ladder are as follows:

•Players need to recognize the position of the defenders as they attack

•If the 1st attacker has a 1v1 situation encourage the player to attack aggressively with individual ability

•If the 1st attacker carries the ball inside can the 2nd attacker make a run outside to draw the second defender out of position for an overlap, fake overlap or do they look for an take over.

•If the defenders are pulled out of position can the attackers play a wall pass to penetrate?

•In all of the above the attackers must maintain the pace of the attack.

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Practice 4 (20 mins)

Practice 4

This stage will focus on possession with points again being awarded for teams who can keep possession for the longest time. The teams are set out into grids with 4 players per grid. The teams are set out into grids 15x15 yards and each player is given a number (1-4). Grids are set out as below.

The players are passing and moving in a sequence within the grid, when a the coach calls out a number, that player becomes a the defender within another grid, as determined by the coach. The coaching points for the practice include;

•Stress the movement off the ball to help the player in possession

•Ask the question of players should their body position be open or closed when receiving

•Each player should use a vast range of passes

•Can the player disguise the pass by playing the ball into space

The coach can maintain the intensity of the practice by continually awarding points for keeping the ball for a sustained period of time or number of passes.

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Practice 5 (25 mins)

Practice 5

Session finishes with a small-sided game, winning team players get and additional 3 points to see who has been the overall winning player. Coach will continue to emphasise the coaching points from throughout the session but with no restrictions, the coach can now see how much the players have learned and improved the skills taught throughout the season and what players need to be challenged by increasing the difficulty and complexity of the skills or tactical elements of the game and who needs more coaching points, demonstrations or potentially a new method of approach to ensure each player continues to develop.

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