Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Week 3 - Superheroes

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Name:	Adam Shaw
City:	Geismar
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Activity 1

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Activity 1

Copy Coach - Start without a soccer ball. You will verbally need to coordinate the children at first, but when they start understand more then try your best to stay quiet & allow the kids to watch & copy you. Get the children to follow you with :

1 - Jogging around the square.

2 - Freeze.

3 - Running fast around the square.

4 - Walking slowly around the square.

5 - Jumping around the square.

6 - Hopping around the square.

7 - Balance on one foot.

8 - If you can think of more then feel free to add them in.

All the time you are encouraging the children to keep their eyes on you and copy you. You will need to verbally coordinate the children at first, but when they start to understand, try your best to stay quiet whilst they just watch you and copy you. Then, introduce the soccer ball and get the children to follow you whilst you shout out different body parts...

Body Parts

First go through all the body parts with all the kids, teach them which each one is one by one. Can we also teach them left to right for the Knee, Foot & Elbow. Start to emphasis importance of not using our hands...

Head (Forehead)

Belly

Chest

Knee (Only one/ not both)

Foot

Sit on the ball

Ear

Nose

Elbow

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Activity 2

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Activity 2

Superheroes

1 - Batman - ' What superhero wears a black mask & has a cape? ' players must look to stop the ball by putting the bottom of their foot on the ball & put both arms out by their side as if this was Batman's cape. Get players to shout ' BATMAN '

2 - Spiderman - ' What superhero wears a red & blue mask & shoots webs from his hands? ' players must look to stop the ball & then shoot spider webs at the soccer ball while round around the ball & making a noise as if webs are coming out their hands.

3 - Incredible Hulk - ' What superhero is green & has big muscles? Hulk smashes with his hands but because we are soccer players what do we use? ' players must look to perform toe taps on the soccer while flexing their arm muscles. ( coach can choose the number of toe taps)

4 - Superman - ' What superhero has a big S on his chest & he can fly? ' players must stop their soccer ball, lie on top of the ball with one arm out in front of them. On the coaches count to 3, all players will shout SUPERMAN.

5 - Flash - ' What superhero is super super super fast? ' players must dribble with the soccer ball but goes as fast as they can like Flash.

6 - Ironman - ' What superhero can shoot fireballs from his hands? We are soccer players so what will we use? ' players must use soccer ball as a fireball, they need to try & kick their soccer ball so it hits someone else's soccer ball.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Actvity 3

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3 - Take down the Joker and his team

' We are now ready to fight crime, let’s start by taking down the Joker and his team of bad guys '

- Players start without a ball, they must look to kick over the cones with their feet & must look to high five parents to knock them over. Parent can get back up after 5 seconds.

- Players now have a soccer ball, they must look to dribble their ball close to cone & kick ball at the cone to knock it over.

In the meantime, get the parents to be “The Joker”. Tell them to pick up the cone that their child has knocked over so that another child can come around and kick that cone. You do not want cones lying flat or else the game slows down quickly.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Activity 4

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4 - Catch the Joker

' The Joker has stolen all of the money from the bank, its now your job to get all of the money back & take the Joker to jail. '

The Joker (coach) will run around the square with cones in his hands, the players must chase the Joker & try to retrieve as many cones as they can. When the Joker has been tagged/kicked he must drop a cone on the floor which the successful player will pick up & continue to chase the Joker. When all cones are gone, sit players down & count how many cones they got, high five kids to let them know they done a good job.

- Players will now have a ball in their hands, they can now throw their soccer ball at coach. When coach has lost all of the cones they must fall down.

- Players will now have a ball at their feet, they must dribble close & kick their ball to hit coach. When coach has lost all of the cones they must fall down.

- Involve parents now, allow parents to have 2/3 cones each & let their child chase them around the square to catch their own Joker. When parent has lost all cones they must fall down.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Actvity 5

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5 - What's the time Mr Joker?

' The Joker is now in jail but he is planning to escape, his first job is to find you & make you pay for putting him into jail, watch out & don't get caught '

- Coach will start as Joker, with his back towards the kids who will be on the start line.

- Players will shout ' Whats the time Mr Joker? ' , Coach will then shout a number between 1 & 12, whatever number is shouted then thats how many touches they take to dribble closer to joker. When they have done their touches then ask them to do their Batman Pose ( foot on ball & arms out)

- When coach shouts ' Escape Time ' the players must then turn round & dribble back to the start line with their soccer ball.

- Involve parents, allow the parent to be their own individual Joker for their child. All players will still shout ' Whats the time Mr Joker? ' , Coach will shout number to avoid confusion between players.

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