Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Spring Season - Stage 1 - Week 6 - Ball control

Screen 1

Warm-up: each player with a ball and one (or two) players without it as taggers.

Players with ball must dribble the ball through the gates to be able to score in the small nets. Each time they score, they get +1 point.

Defenders must try to stop them and, if they steal the ball, they try to score in the small net. If tagger score, player who had the ball loses -2 points.

Variation:

- players must go through two different color gates to score

- players must only use the weak foot to dribble the ball. Tagger can only use the weaker foot to steal and score

- players must go though the gates doing a specific foot skill (roll overs, single scissor, fake drop, etc).

Time:12-15 min

Screen 3

After working on the ball control without pressure, now we go for a ball control that will have pressure: one player between two nets with a ball and two players by the cone without it. When player with ball makes a pass, the other two will make a forward run: player in the front is the attacker and must receive and control that ball even having a pressure from a defender behind him/her. After controlling it, player must try to score in one of the two side nets.

In the begin, to make it more successful, defender can only try to steal the ball after the player had received that ball. 

After, as a progression, defensive player can try to steal the ball since the ball leaves the opposing players foot.

Players rotate positions. 

Time:18-20 min