Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): U9/10 Winter Team Practice - Session #11 (Passing & Receiving) (Start Time: 2024-01-10 17:15:00)

Arrival Activity - Ball Tag (10 mins)

Ball Tag

• The red team works together, throwing the ball to eachother to try and tag a black player. 
• The red team can only tag a black player if they have possession of the ball in their hands and are right beside that player. 
• If a black player is tagged by a red player they need to do a lap around the grid and are back in the game. 
• Switch teams every few minutes.

• How can we communicate with our teammates?
• What works better? Short or long passes?
• How can we trap the black team?

Things to Consider:

• Make the space smaller if the red team is struggling.
• Make the space bigger if the black team is struggling.

SSG - Crossing Game (15 mins)

Set-Up:

- 2 Goals 

- Add in channels on the outside of the playing area for the servers of the ball.

Description:

- Divide team in half and have each team send 2 players into the attacking channels of the pitch.

- Goal for each team is to get wide with the ball before they can score.

- The wide channel is split in 2 so that the defensive channel player knows that they cannot go in and interfere with the attacking edge player.

- Channel players have 2 touches to get the ball in play either via cross or simple ball to feet (1 touch to control, 1 to cross).

Progressions:

1. Ball must go to one of the edges before you can score (this may be the only progression you do today)

2. Ball must go to both edges before you can score

3. Player who passes into the channel must take their place

4. If you want to make this more about defending crosses you can focus on the pressure on the cross and/or how you like to mark the players attacking the cross

Language:

- Edges (wide areas)

- Timing of run (attacking the cross)

- Weight of pass

- First-time

- Communication (first post, back post)

- 2nd 6-yard box