Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): U9 Defending (Start Time: 2018-10-25 16:35:00)

Ball Mastery Warmup

Organization:

- As much space as needed, each player with a ball.

Instructions:

- Before the start of session, either inividual juggling or a large group rondo arrival activity.

- Ball mastery warmup, focusing on dribbling using different parts of the foot, changing speed, direction, and allowing the players to incorporate different skills and movements with their dribbling.

- Challenge the players with added pressure of time or # of touches

Coaching Points:

- Preparing ourselves physically and mentally for the session

- What are the different areas of the foot we would use and why?

- Head up as we are looking for open space, instead of going in a circle or a line can we change our direction and try and cover as much of the pitch as possible.

- Close control, one step in between every touch, how is our body position? Position of our foot?

- When taking bigger touches and exploding into space, what changes with our body position?

- Turning to find new space, identifying where the space is and moving into it.

1v1's

Organization:

- Space adjusted as needed

- Keeping group W/R ration at 1 to 1

Instructions:

- Defender passes ball to attacker and play begins. Players score by dribbling through the middle gate.

- Players rotate sides after each round

Coaching Points:

- As we receive the ball, what type of touch do we want to take to attack the space?

- With the defender in front of us, what type of touch are we taking? How can we beat them or get behind them?

- Once in open space how do we attack with the ball

- Cutting behind defender once past them