Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Radyr Rangers U6 Tuesday 1 April (Start Time: 2025-04-01 18:05:00)

Warm Up - Musical Footballs (5 mins)

Place the balls in the middle of the circle and make sure you have one less ball than you have players. The players start on the outside of the circle and they are not allowed to go into the circle until the coach says go. When the coach says go, the players can sprint to the balls. Because there is one less soccer ball, one player will be left without a ball. The player without the ball is then removed from the game. Every round you will need to remove one ball.

Crocs in the River (10 mins)

Set up the pitch as shown creating a river in the middle, one player starts as the crocodile, players have to dribble across the river avoiding the crocodile. If a player is tackled the become a crocodile, continue until the last player is tackled. 

Small Sided Game (15 mins)

Start with some 1V1 matching the players on ability, allow players to play for 60 seconds and then rotate.

Finish with a small sided game. 3v3 or 4v4 with standard rules. Emphasis for today in the matches is passing forward, in Saturdays matches there was a lot of passing backwards from the dead ball which made it easy for the opposition. Also players are trying to hard to play long passes, encourage players to come short to receive the ball rather than kicking it back to the opposition.