Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): U9 Ball Control (1.5h)

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Philip Persson

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Name:	Philip Persson
City:	Niskayuna
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Tag Game

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Tag Game (10 mins)

Organization:

Each player as a pinnie, all players inside the area.

Instructions:

• Attackers have a pinnie in their shorts (pinnie must be on the right or the left side and must hang down to at least the knee)

• Defenders start with out a pinnie

• When the defender pulls out an atackers pinnie they become the attacker.

• Each player Starts with 10 points, they lose a point if their pinnie gets pulled

• The goal is to finish the game with all 10 points

Coaching Points:

1) Identifying gaps in defense to penetrate

2) Identifying defenders position

3) Recognize how to protect the pinnie-(Position the body in between the ball and opponent)

Progressions:

P-Add More Defenders

P-Decrease size of area

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical Movements

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Technical Movements (10 mins)

Organization:

One ball per player

Instructions:

The coach will demonstrate various ball control movements (inside, outside of the foot or toe taps) and let the players practice them for a little while

Coaching Points:

-Keep the ball close to your feet

-Avoid colliding with the other players

-Ball control

Progressions/Regressions:

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Knock out (Fully Opposed)

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Knock out (Fully Opposed) (15 mins)

Organization:

Same as previous

Instructions:

• Same as previous activity but players are attempting to knock the other players soccer balls out of the area

• Each player starts with 3 points, if their ball gets knocked out they lose 1 point, once a player gets down to zero points they put their ball in the safe zone and play only defender

• In order to come back into the game the player must perfrom ball mastery

-toe taps (basic)

-continuous scissors (advanced)

Coaching Points:

1) Identifying defenders position

2) WHEN and HOW to protect the ball

3) Head up to observe available options

4) Position the body in between the ball and opponent

Progressions:

1. Players get into 2 teams and have to knock each others soccer balls out of the area, team to knock out other teams ball 1st wins

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Fully-Opposed (goal scoring mentality)

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Fully-Opposed (goal scoring mentality) (15 mins)

Organization:

• Ball per player

• 1,2, or 3 players without a ball to be defenders (hold pinnie in hand)

Instructions:

• Players with a ball attempt to dribble around in the area, maintaining control of their ball and preventing the defending players from stealing it or knocking it away

• Defending players (players holding a pinnie) attempt to steal the ball from one of the players in possession and score at any of the goals on the outside

• If the defending player steals the ball and scores, they give the pinnie to the player who they stole the ball from to become the new defender, they then retrieve the ball they scored and enter the

game as a dribbler

• If the defending player steals the ball but does not score, either because they miss the goal or because the opposing player stole it back, then they continue to play as the defender and attempt to

steal someone else's ball

Coaching Points:

1) Keeping ball close

2) Finding the gaps

3) Size and direction of touches get through gaps

4) Awareness of space and position of the defender turning if gap is to small or to escape pressure

5) Defenders-when they win the ball can they find the spaces and gaps to penetrate and score a goal

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Free play

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Free play (30 mins)

Organization:

3 vs 3 with 2

Instructions:

• Free play

• Players organized in a 2-1 or 1-2 to allow ample spaces for running with the ball and penetrating using the dribble.

• Restarts

-All restarts are a dribble in or a pass in, but are still in direct

Coaching Points:

1) Recognizing moments to penetrate

2) Creating traingle as big as possible (width/length/depth) to help create gaps to penetrate

3) Encourage players who find and exploit gaps in between defenders

Progressions:

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