Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): ETC Trial 2 - U10's & U12's - Pre Match Activities

Pre Match - Game

Pre Match - Game - 5 minutes

Two teams playing across the area trying, keeping possession and trying to pass to their target players on each end.

Blue team start in possession and try and play across the square to their target player. If successful, target player bounce passes the ball back to blue, and they play back the other way.

Red team try and win the ball, if they do, they keep possession and play to their target player.

Each completed bounce pass with target player is worth a point.

Simple Progression:

1. Player who passes to target player takes their place, target player drives into the square and game continues.

Coach Notes

1. Tempo - encourage players to pass the ball with speed and to work hard to retain AND regain the ball should they lose it.

2. Detail - Pass weight, selection, timing, movement to receive/find and create space, body shape, can they dribble?

3. Make it fun and competitive - positive language - lots of praise

Stuck in the mud - Keepy-Uppie version....

Standard game of stuck in the mud, Green player is tagger, challenge is for her to tag as many players as possible....

Players must leave the area if tagged, run to a football located around the area and perform a 5 keepie-uppie challenge before they can enter the pitch again.

Coach Notes 

A. Change the taggers often..

B. Change the movement of the players often to work through FMS...

1. Run

2. Skip

3. Hop

4. Bear Crawl

5. Player Choice