Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): School session week 3 - Dribbling into turning

Warm up into first activity

Key Factors 

Warm up -

- Players to get into partners. One partner on the outside of the square, the other on the inside. - Inside players initially without a ball, are turning are various cones. After 4 swap with partner.

First activity -

- Same structure, now with a ball. initially turniong however they want (problem solving/ guided discovery).

- Now coach will step in and demonstrate and explain specific turns.

- Inside hook (refresh from last week).

- Outside hook.

- Drag back.

- Cones are colour coordinated in a traffic light system (Green - Orange - Red).

- To differinate this blocked practice, children that are finding the turns easier than others are working in traffic light order, from green to orange to red and swap with partner (thinking about order as well as skill).

Organisation

- Players in partners, with one partner in the middle and the other on the outside of the area.

- Large cones scattered in the middle to provide turns, these provide more of an obstacle for players and also represent defenders.

- Rest:Work ratio of 1:1 for these activties.

Small sided games

Key Factors

- Finish on small sided games to allow children to show what they have learnt throughout the session and previous sessions in a competitive situation.

- Make teams as small as possible allow players more touches and time on the ball (all depends on numbers, space and equipment available).

- When the ball leaves the pitch it is passed back in and not thrown. Easier to control a ground pass, allowing more fluid football.

Organisation

- Split the area into two pitches.

- Goals either side,

- Equal teams.