Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Basic First Touch Session

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Sport: Football/Soccer
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Description

Basic first touch session, focusing on the mechanics of controlling the ball and directional first touch.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Simple First Touch Intro

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Simple First Touch Intro (10 mins)

Organisation

  • 'Working player' receives the ball and plays it back with two touches through the middle gate
  • Go for two minutes and then switch position 
Coaching Points
  • On toes, Eye on the ball, Get in line with ball, Decide and present surface towards ball, Relax on impact
  • Soft first touches to kill the ball to start
Regression
  • Focus is on first touch, if reps are being ruined by first touch have the server on the knees rolling the ball

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Simple Directional First Touch Intro

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Simple Directional First Touch Intro (15 mins)

Organisation

  • 'Working player' receives the ball and plays it back with two touches through the middle gate, then the right gate, then the left gate
  • Players must reset to the starting cone before every pass
  • Go for two minutes and then switch position 
Coaching Points
  • On toes, Eye on the ball, Get in line with ball, Decide and present surface towards ball, Relax on impact
  • Directional first touch pushed outside of the gate a little
Regression/Progression
  • Focus is on first touch, if reps are being ruined by first touch have the server on the knees rolling the ball
  • Make it a competition - must successful touches and passes in 1 minute wins


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Triangle Free Dribble - First Touch

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Triangle Free Dribble - First Touch (20 mins)

Organisation

  • 5 players in a triangle, 5 players out of one
  • Players outside dribble to someone in a triangle and pass them the ball
  • Players in the triangle take a touch out and find someone in a different trinangle
Coaching Points
  • On toes, Eye on the ball, Get in line with ball, Decide and present surface towards ball, Relax on impact
  • Directional first touch pushed outside of the triangle
  • Head up to find a triangle no one is going to
Regression/Progression
  • Focus is on first touch, if reps are being ruined by first touch have the server on the knees rolling the ball
  • Ball has to go out of a different triangle to which it goes into


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 5v5 Conditioned SSG

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5v5 Conditioned SSG (20 mins)

Organisation

  • Regular scrimmage with FIFA rules
  • Kick ins to encourage passing (and first touch) while playing in
  • Each goal is worth the amount of passes proceeding it (for example, 3 passes and then a goal would be worth 3 goals)
Coaching Points
  • On toes, Eye on the ball, Get in line with ball, Decide and present surface towards ball, Relax on impact
  • Directional first touch into space

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