Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): U9 Girls Red S16- Session 4 (Start Time: 2016-03-24 16:00:00)

Semi to Fully Opposed (20 mins)

Organization:

Same organization as the previous activities.

Instructions:

• Both blue team and red team have a ball but the blue team are the attacking players first

• Both players must stay on their half of the area neither player can cross the cone line in the middle

• Blue wins by stopping the ball in an end zone before the opposition can stop in the area

• Defender is live on blue's first touch.

• If defender wins the ball they try to score in the pug between the two lines

• Each team gets 1:30 to take the role of the attacker

Coaching Points:

- Quality of first touch (Direction - towards goal, Weight)

- Awareness of defender's position

- Be positive, attack goal if possible

- Decision, Turn or Stop start to lose the defender (Scenarios from warm up)

- Protect the ball with your body

- Finish!

Progressions:

P. Use pugg goals to paint the picture of getting behind the defender (end product)

R. Use cone line in the middle to allow-Defender cannot cross-(Attacker trying to dribble through gates)

P-Attacking player can score from either half, if they score from their own half they get 1 point however if they can penetrate and score from the defenders half they get 2 points--(Defenders must stay in their half, if they win the ball they