Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): RDS Experienced - Social Distancing

Ball Mastery (15 mins)

Organization:

As above.

Instructions:

Players perform ball mastery moves on coaches command:

- V's

- L's

-Roll

-Etc.

Coaching Points:

- Quality of footwork and ball mastery

- Keep ball close

- Speed of footwork

- Head up

SSG (20 mins)

Organization:

-3 areas of 20x10 set up as shown -5 yard scoring zone

- teams of 3 of players place on both sides of the grid each time the complete a turn they must swap channels for their next turn to try new position.

-6 Pugg goals

Instructions:

teams of 3 (or 2) players everyone restricted to their channel .

the defending team starts with the ball and plays a pass to the attacking team then go to press , the attacking team must try to keep possession passing across the three channels untill one of them can penetrate into the scoring zone to finish.

1 point if scored outside scoring zone, 2 points if scored inside scoring zone

if the defensive team steals they must then transition to the oposite side and do the same.

Coaching Points:

-quality and tempo of ball movement

-recognition to penetrate gaps

-execution of cod to open up passing lanes/find space to shoot,switch play, etc.

Progressions:

-if the players score in the middle its worth 3 points and only 1 point for outside channels