Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Sole roll/roll step techique (Start Time: 2017-10-19 16:00:00)

Ball Mastery Warmup (15 mins)

Organization:

Grid as above. Grix approximately 30x30. All players in grid with ball as shown

Instructions:

Players dribble in the area after listening to coaches command. Coach will use a variety of touches and different dribbling techniques:

-Inside touches

-Outside touches

-Strong/weak foot touches

-Soll roll touches

-Laces touches

-Introduce stepover touches

-Introduce roll/step combo

Coaching Points:

* Qaulity touches on the ball

* Eyes up after every touch to watch out for other players

* Short 'Messi' touches to keep the ball close, big 'Ronaldo' touches to push the ball into space to go faster

Progressions:

1) Knockout in the same area (players must control their ball while trying to knock other players balls out of the area with poke tackles

Conditioned Game (15 mins)

Organization:

As above. Grid approximatly 30x30 with pugg goals at each end. 3v3 in the middle of the grid.

Instructions:

Players play soccer, but may only move the ball forward on the field with dribbles. Players can only pass backward and sideways to move up field. Each goal is 1 point.

Coaching Points:

* Where is the space? How can you get to it?

* Does teammate have space to dribble? If not, need to be there for support

* Eyes up with ball at feet

Progressions:

1) Free play, no restrictions