Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): School Soccer: Session Ideas - 1v1 (Dribbling and Running With the Ball) (Start Time: 2023-09-18 08:05:00)

1v1 - First to the Ball (10 mins)

• Improve speed and finishing
• Use body feints and skills to beat your opponent
• Progress by making players score with their weaker foot
• Encourage the boys to battle for the ball

Instructions:

• Coach divides the players into two teams. Each team lines up on either side of the cones.
• Coach creates an entry point with two cones at the center of the field.
• On the coaches go one player from each team must run around the outside of the field to the midline and enter through the two cones. The coach rolls a ball anywhere on the field.
• Whichever player touches the ball first is the attacker and will try to score. The other player must come from behind to stop the attacker by either clearing the ball or kicking out of bounds.

3. Defender can score

Coaching Points:

• Can players go shoulder to shoulder to try and win the ball?
• Can the attacker accelerate once they get the ball?
• Can the attacker get their head up to see where they need to shoot?

Safety:

• Show players how to go shoulder to shoulder with their opponent
• Have players step out of the field of play when they have finished
• No sliding

1v1 Attack to Defend (10 mins)

1v1 Attack to Defend

Set up:

2 channels as shown with a goal at opposite ends. Black team lined up with a ball each on one end of the left channel with red team lined with a ball each on the right channel.

Instructions:

Play starts with one black player attacking the goal in left channel against one red defender. When the black player scores, the ball goes out of play or the red player wins the ball, the black player must immediately transition and defend a red player entering in the right channel to repeat the same process on the opposite side. Every time a players scores a goal, they get a point for their team. Players must return to their line with a ball.

Coaching emphasis:

1v1 attacking - attack quickly, take defender on. Take your chance to score when it presents itself.

Defensive transition - immediate reaction to losing possession to press the opposite attacking player.

Attacking transition - immediate reaction to play ending on the opposite side to attack quickly and take as much space as possible before the defender can recover.

1v1 defending - Press, force one way from arms length distance. Win the ball! Which direction should you force the attacker to help your team?

Running with the Ball at Mannequins (Technical - Unopposed) (10 mins)

Set-Up

- Each player with a ball at their cone

Progressions

- dribble right foot to the mannequin and perform a fake take, then do left side on coaches discretion

- same as above with circle take

- continue to fake fake take (be sure at this point to talk about distance to mannequin)

- circle circle take

- add in different combinations such as fake circle, step fake, Maradona etc.