Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): LSYS U8 Passing - Week 4

Description

DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERISTICS TRANSLATED TO COACHING PLAYERS IN STAGE 2 (Age 6-8)

Translated to player development this means:

 1. Continued involvement of fundamental movement skills – running, jumping, skipping, throwing etc

 2. Focusing on ball familiarization and dribbling skills – one ball per child.

 3. Introduction of paired and cooperation activities.

 4. Help players understand a task by demonstration and asking questions

 5. Sessions requiring players to be extremely active.

 6. Selecting activities that do not place undue stress on the muscles, bones and energy systems of the

 body.

 7. Repeating activities regularly – constant change and insufficient reinforcement negatively affects

 learning

 8. Camouflaging and concealing technical information by using names, characters and stories.

 9. Encouraging trial and error, keeping instruction to a minimum

 10. Using equipment and props to increase complexity but continue to make the sessions fun – hurdles,

hoops, ladders, bean bags etc

 11. Including competitive games, but emphasize success other than just winning (i.e. effort)

 12. Providing considerable encouragement.

 13. Including ‘games and matches’ in every session

 14. Introduction to small sided games – 2v2 to 4v4 – play at the end of a practice session – don’t

 sacrifice practice sessions for games at this stage.

 15. All players to receive fundamental goal keeping skills – catching, throwing and diving (players love

to dive!).

 16. Introduce basic rules of the game – including restarts when ball leaves the field.

 17. Passing skills can be introduced.

 18. Avoiding temptations to place players in specialist positions (i.e. full back, forward or goal keeper)