Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Legacy Pre Season Clinic - Day 2

Overview and Set Up

Legacy Pre Season Clinic

Day 2 - 2010-2005's

Location: Lower Level Field

Times: 7:15 - 8:30 PM (75 Minutes)

Staff: Ray, Matt, Kyle, Joey

Equipment Needed

 - Cones, size 4 and Size 5 balls, small sided goals, bibs

Overview:

75 Minutes Total - All exercises focusing on technique and explosive movement

Warm Up Game (15 Minutes)

Technical Work (18 Minutes)

Technical Dribbling Game (18 Minutes)

2v1 to small goals (18 Minutes)

Players will rotate, coaches will work through progression with the different groups.

All coaches will set up the same way.

Technical Work

Technical Work Set Up

18 Minutes

20 yard grid with 6x6 grid in the middle

No more than 3 in a line.

Each exercise work for 1 minute, rest 30 seconds x 3. Make every 1 minute game a competition. Every turn and pass back is a point.

1. Player dribbles into middle cone, any turn, pass back to teammate. 

2. Player dribbles at speed into middle cone, performs inside foot chop right foot, passes back. Next time player goes, switches to inside left foot. 

3. Player dribbles at speed into middle cone, performs step over turn (Revelino). ie: Step over with right foot, turn right, take with outside of right foot. Passes ball back to teammate.

4. Player dribbles at speed into middle cone, performs Cruyff turn, passes ball back to teammate.

Coaching points:

1. Dribbling at pace, ankle locked, toe pointed down, using nearly outside of foot.

2. Touches under control, smaller as we get closer to cone

3. Selling fake with entire body

4. Proper technique on turns

 a. Revelino - driving foot past the ball, selling the fake with entire body

 b. Cruyff - using the inside of the foot to turn closer to the big toe, not the heel, to hook the ball.

2v1 to goals

2v1 to goals

18 minutes

Set Up: 20x20 grid, split in half diagonally

mini goals set up on opposite end lines,  

2 even teams

Explanation of Game

Attacker A plays ball into Attacker B, who has checked back to the ball. Defender moves into the grid with Attacker B. Game is now 2v1 going to mini goal. If ball crosses diagonal line, ball is out. If defender wins ball, ball is dead.

Play 3 minute game and rotate roles. Keep score

First game - No coaching

Before second game - give coaching points

Second game - coaching players during the flow of the game but not stopping

Before third game - additional coaching points, point out something you liked, something that needs improvement

Scoring:

+1 for scoring on mini goals

Bonus points awarded by coaching for creative skill to beat defender (your decision, we want to encourage players to be as creative as possible, not worrying about making mistakes)

Coaching Points - want to ask leading questions to the players, not telling them the answer but guiding them.

- Progressing from the last game, we are adding an additional attacker. Now attacker has to make a choice on when to pass, when to dribble, when to shoot. What determines this choice?

- How do we commit defenders

- How do we move defenders where we want them to go? Dribbling away from the space that we want to go to draw defender out of it

- Quick decision making, have an idea of how we want to set up defender before receiving the ball