Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Seoul Earthquakes - Senior Girls

Warm Up - A (5 mins)

Organisation:

- On arrival 3/4 lines

- Players begin by performing co-ordination excercises

- Players perform each exercise twice and always jog on the way back to the starting cone as follows:

1) Steady jog

2) Sidesteps

3) Skipping one arm above head

4) Dynamic stretches - knee huggers - ice skaters - quad pull push through toes - hamstring swings

5) Jog

6 )Kareoke

7) Zig Zag Shuffle - 2 to the right 2 to the left

8) Jockey (backwards)

9 )Backwards Running

10) Dynamic stretches - Lunges - Walking Calf and Hamstring Stretches

11) High knees into sprint / Small steps into sprint

Technical Practice (20 mins)

Objectives:

- develop ability to dribble and run with the ball

- develop ability to turn and change direction with speed

Organization:

- Split group into 2 teams and then 2 lines, 1 player 1 ball

- On coaches command 4 players dribble at one time towards the middle box, with the ball and stop in the middle box. (Delivering 4 balls to the middle box) Coach then shouts either blue or yellow.

- If coach shouts "blue" the players from the blue team must dribble their ball through any goal without the yellows stealing. The yellows leave their two balls in the square and try and tackle the blue players.

- If the yellows steal they try to score in any goal

- Once both 1v1 situations have finished coach can play in the remaining balls, players play 1v1 / 2v2 until all balls are dead. Players then collect their balls and rejoin the back of the line

Progressions:

Coach can progress the session by:

- Limiting goals from four to two

- Switching to a pure 2v2 by having one line from each team start with balls

- Team must make passes before scoring