Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Red Bulls Youth Programs - Dora the Explorer

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Daniel Solli

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Name:	Daniel Solli
City:	Port Chester
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Dora Goes Exploring

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Dora Goes Exploring

Organization:

20x20 yard area

Players Line Up Behind The Line

The Story:

- Dora the Explorer is excited to go on an adventure and she wants you to join in!

- Ask players if they are ready to go on an adventure with Dora?!

- Have kids pretend to put on the 'imagination cap' and tell them that they are now in a jungle. Introduce the rules to 'On the River" and 'On the Bank.'

Instructions:

1. All players stand behind line created by Coach and listen for instruction.

2.When the coach calls out ‘In the River’ all players must jump over the line (marked out between the cones) towards the coach into the River

3. When the coach calls out ‘On the Bank’ all the players jump away from the coach back over the line onto the Bank

4. The coach attempts to catch out the players by quick comm ands that sometimes repeat – ‘In the River,on the Bank, in the River, in the River!’

5. If a player jumps in the wrong direction, they join the coach on the boat

Coaching Points/Questions:

1. Feet together when jumping

2. Arms out to balance

3. Eyes and Ears on Coach

Regressions/Progressions:

- Speed of Call Outs

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Boots Banana Tag

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Boots Banana Tag

Organization:

20x30 yard area

Story:

Dora's best friend Boots wants to play a game with you.

Boots loves TAG! Especially freeze tag, but Boots is a Monkey so when he tags you he wants you to turn into his favorite fruit! A Banana!

Instructions:

Boots players dribbling around and must tag the other players by passing the ball into their ball. If a player is tagged, the pick up their ball, place above head, open legs for a teammate to peel the banana and pass a ball through their legs then they are back in the game.

Coaching Points/Questions:

1 - change of direction

2 - head up, where is the space?

3 - change of speed

Regressions/Progressions:

- add cones to avoid

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Swiper Caught Swiping

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Swiper Caught Swiping

Organization:

20x20 yard area

Story Theme:

- Oh No! Swiper saw all the fun you were having with Boots and now wants to steal all your bananas!

- We don't want Swiper to take Boots favorite fruit for him. It's up to us to stop Swiper from Swiping!

Instructions:

Swiper must try to steal balls from all the other players. If swiper steals your ball, you must become a Swiper and steal other players balls.

Coaching Points/Questions:

1 - head up

2 - change of speed

3 - how hard to kick the ball

Regressions/Progressions:

- Coach Cannot Jump. etc.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Helping Map Explore

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Helping Map Explore

Organization:

20x20 Grid

Story/Theme

- Map needs your help to paint all the beautiful places that are on his map! He needs your special paintbrushes (soccer balls) to paint and explore the area and tell him all you see!

Instructions:

Phase I: NO CONES ON FIELD

- Each player needs a ball at their feet.

- Players soccer ball turns into their favorite color paintbrush (ask players)

- Players are shown boundaries on the map and are instructed to help paint the entire field their color paint brush.

- 45 - 60 seconds rounds x 2 -3 times

PHASE II: CONE GATES

- Map LOVES all the painting youve been doing!

- He needs a couple areas to be painted just a bit more so that Map is even bigger and prettier than he was before.

- Coach shows that the areas that need extra painting are marked in coned gates.

- Players are encouraged to dribble through to every gate before time runs out!

- 45 - 60 seconds rounds x 2 -3 times

Coaching Points/Questions:

- head up no collisions

- are there open gates

- are you keeping your paint brush (ball) close so you dont miss the gates (or make mistakes)

Regressions/Progressions:

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Swiper No Snack Swiping

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Swiper No Snack Swiping

Organization:

20x20 yard area with four 5x5 yard boxes in each corner

Set Up As Shown

Use Cones, Pinnies and Balls

Instructions:

Players must dribble all their balls back into their corner area. Dora & Boots are on an adventure day and must try to get all the bananas (balls) back into their zones before swiper wakes up from the den sleeping.

Coaching Points/Questions:

1. Move very slowly in the den so as not to wake Swiper The Fox

2. No hands dribbling (only with a ball when dribbling it back to your house)

3. Coach is Swiper The Fox, Coach/Volunteer will lay on field pretending to be asleep.

If the Players are too loud or bump into him, he wakes up and everyone has to leave their food run back to their house to be safe!

Regressions/Progressions:

- Place Blue Pinnies on the field and call them lakes! You cannot swim through a lake.

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