Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): penertration U11 session 2

Passing, recieving, moving off the ball (stamina) (20 mins)

Area:

use centre circle or use cones/discs to create circle.

Equipmment:

Balls (1 per outside player) cones/discs if needed.

Objective:

working as a pair in the middle, one player leads and the other follows. From position 1 the leader (blue) runs and calls for a ball from a feeder on the outside. When he recieves he must control and stop the ball (position 2) He then turns out and moves to another feeder for a ball and repeats (position 3). The role of the follower is to shadow bout not tackle the reciever. Once the reciever has stopped the ball dead the follower passes the ball to a feeder on the outside (position 2) then turns to follow the leader again (position 3). The leader is trying to loose the follower by working as fast as possible, changing direction and setting the pace. work for 1- 1.5mins depending on fitness then swap the pairs. Once all pairs have had a turn the leaders and followers in each pair swap roles and the practice is repeated.

Key Points:

Emphasise changing direction and not going round in a circle as changing direction multiple times makes it more difficult for the follower. This is very tiring if performed correctly. Encourage the pairs to work as hard as possible to improve fitness.

Progression:

Increase the duration of time each pair works for.

1,2,3 breakout & recover

Area:

Use 1/4 of astro pitch and divide the pitch into thirds.

Equipment:

cones, bibs, balls, goals.

Objective:

Split the players into 2 teams. Each player is given a number and their job when out of possesion is to mark the same number as themselves on the team in possesion. So blue1 out of possesion will mark red 1 who is in possesion. Blue 2 out of possesion will mark red 2 in possesion and so on. The practice starts with a possesion game in the middle 3rd. After 3 passes the team in possesion can breakout and attack the goal. The practice is reset once the ball goes dead or the defending team win back possion.

Key Points:

The aim is to get players to identify loss of possesion (in this instance the 3 passes) and get goalside of their marker and defend an attack, Anticipate when it looks like the 3 passes are completed to search for your man.

Progression 1:

Make the game multi directional on the break out to make the player really think about where the play is likely to head.

Progression 2:

Have a normal direction match with blues and reds attacking opposite ends.

Progression 3:

Normal match but keep match up players to try and man mark zonal. For example red right midfield marks l blue left midfield.