Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): U8 Bethal Park week 6

king of the ring (20 mins)

Activity 

The aliens  begin by dribbling around inside the ring in any direction.Keeping their own ball under close control they must try to knock another aliens ball out of the ring.To be successful alien they must decide who to attack and use defensive skills to knock their ball out, while being aware that they might be attacked from a different angle.Once a alains ball  has been knocked out should collect their ball and walk around the outside of the ring and do the skill the coach says fo that round. 

Toe Taps

Innies 

L-Turn

Scissors

Coaching points 

keeping your head up 

small touches

Bumper Cars (20 mins)

Set up and Activity 

Place one player inside each of the 5x5 yard squares. 4 players dribble around inside the main area.Two defenders – without a ball – look to knock balls out of the grid. Each ball they knock out is worth 1 point.The game stops when they knock all 5 balls out of the area.If a dribbling player wants a rest they can bump a player out of one of the safety zones.When inside a safety zone, if a ball is passed to you and a player runs into your zone you must leave and dribble the ball into the main area.If bumped out of a safety zone you can attempt to bump someone else out but cannot return to your own safety zone. It is important that the first touch takes the player into space and not into danger.Players in a safety zone must try to control any passes into them!

Progression Reduce the size of the safety grids so passes must be more accurate.

-Coaching Points

 -Listening,

 -heads up,

 -small touches 

- FUN