Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Shooting

Lightning 2.0 (20 mins)

Organization:

- 20 x 30 yard area, split in two

- 3 teams of 4 or more

- goals sized appropriately for the age group and ability, allowing balance of challenge and success

Instructions:

- 3 teams split, 2 teams competing on both fields, 1 team as goalkeepers on fields

- 5 minute matches, 3 matches total

- When your team is out of possession, 1 player must always stay in the attacking half, leaving a 2v1 scenario for the attacking team

- To score points, a shot on goal = 1, a goal = 5, win = 5, tie = 1

- Every time a GK makes a save = 1 pt for their team

- teams rotate after 5 minutes, allowing every team to be GKs once

Coaching Points:

------ Driven shot technique (review)

- Head up to observe target

- Angeld approach

- Head down at point of contact

- Body weight forward, chest down

- Ankle locked, toe down

- Follow through, land on shooting foot

- Eye on ball while striking

- Follow through (land on shooting foot)

- Tamp down momentum if having problems w/accuray

- Goal scoring mentality

- Speed in seizing the opportunity

- reading GK and position of defender in effort to select technique that's appropriate to the situation.

Lightning 2.0 - Progression (20 mins)

Progressions:

- all goals = 1 unless scored off 1 touch which = 5

- Defending GK is allowed to come out and defend

- Goals are made smaller

- Remove points for saves

- Any shots that go wide = minus a point