Kevin Guardado Amaya
| Name: | Kevin Guardado Amaya |
|---|---|
| City: | Sydney |
| Country: | Australia |
| Membership: | Adult Member |
| Sport: | Football/Soccer |
Session Theme: Striking the Ball

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Organisation:
Set up 'gates' and spread them out across the playing area.
Different coloured gates can create more variety and visual cues for younger children.
Players are to pair up and stand on either side of the space between the gates with 1 ball between the two of them.
How to Play:
Start easy, with players making as many passes as they can within the same gate.
Introduce moving to another gate after 5 passes. When moving to another gate, the player without the ball should dictate where the pair will go next so that the dribbler has to follow the player making the run and then make the pass through the gate.
You can also introduce the wall pass or one-two pass and depict the cones as defenders, that they need to pass through and around.
“Can you play a pass between two defenders and then in-frontof the defender to start moving into space for the next gate?”
Coaching Tips:
Challenge the kids with races either against each other or against time. E.g. Now let's see which team can make the most passes in 60 seconds! or Let's see which team can make 5 passes through every single gate the quickest, first team to go through every gate and return back to their original gate, wins!
Make sure to introduce using the inside of their foot to pass the ball accurately.
CHANGEIT / Progressions:
Make gates or bigger or smaller based on ability levels.
Introduce any other passing concepts you think of and changepartners. You can even do relay races like this.

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.
Organisation:
Roughly 30m x 20m field size. Place cones on each goal line to replace the goals and place a ball on top of these cones to create more excitement around knocking the ball off the cone.
How to Play:
The game is played with normal rules, except that to score a goal you need to shoot the ball at one of the cones and knock the ball. You can create a no-go zone to keep kids from running into the cones themselves.
Coaching Tips:
Encourage kids to shoot quickly before the opposition is able to block the shot.
Encourage striking with both the inside of the foot and laces.
CHANGEIT / Progressions:
Add more cones to create more goal scoring opportunities and move them around the pitch so that goals can be scored anywhere, as long as the strikes are accurate.
Pop up some goals for the last few minutes and add them into the game.
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Beginning - Clean Your Room (15 mins)
Organisation:
Create a 'river' in the middle of your playing area and split your group of players into two teams with one on either side of the group. Every player is to take a ball with them and coach can use any other spare balls (more balls = more chaotic fun).
How to Play:
The aim of the game is to have the least amount of balls inyour “room”/ area.
Create a rule that players MUST have a first touch beforekicking the ball back across the river.
After a few games, introduce a rule where players MUST nowpass the ball to a teammate before the ball goes over the river.
Coaching Tips:
Watch out for 'toe-bashing' and support the player to kick theball with their laces for more power.
CHANGEIT / Progressions:
To try and keep as many balls inside the area, create a rulethat says they can’t kick the ball across the opposition's side lines; but they do get 10points for kicking the ball across the opposition back-line. Try to encourage the teams to find a way to defend against this.