Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Technical Unopposed and or semi opposed TURNING drills

Screen 1 (20 mins)

Turns Unopposed (25 mins)

Organization:

30x30yrd grid.

Few Cones scattered around the grid.

4 or 5 manequins or poles(to improove creativity, and more challenge)

GUIDED QUESTIONS:

Where is the empty space? Left/Right/Ahead

Where should you turn?

How should you turn? Inside,Outside,

EXECUTION

- Players to dribble around the area in/out of the cones.

- Players with a ball each doing ball mastery moving from cone to cone: ba

ll touches, outside/inside, toe taps, rolls, roll-stop etc. (moves carried out using inside, outside, and bottom of the left foot and right foot)

- Players to practice turns at the cones (i.e. dribble up to a cone and perform a turn away from it). Turns include; Outside turns, inside turns,brazilian inside open(using inside the foot pulling the ball back and out away from the cone or obstacle),Cruif 1x touch(with your back foot,play the ball under your legs,pulling the ball away from the cones, or obstacle.Then you will use the opposite outside part of your foot to accelerate with the ball),outside and V turn, maradona,etc.

Dribbling and turning games:

How many cones can you turn into in a given time?

Coaching Points:

- Head up and look for space (look for a cone that other players are not going to).

Also when doing your ball mastery look forward at the cone, training to get head up when moving with the ball.

- Body shape when turning away from a cone, or your obstacles

- Turning Moves done at speed and keep the ball under control

Progressions:

- Creativity

Screen 3 (30 mins)

CONDITIONED - SSG - 30 minutes

Every time a player perform a technical turn his teram get 1 extra point.At the 15 minutes switch the teams around.