Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Shooting - FAW C Certificate S10

SSG (10 mins)

Player information: Open Age, 12 players + 2 goalkeepers (doing seperate goalkeeping drills until later SSG)

Session topic: Shooting

Learning objectives: To improve shooting techniques, aiming for a higher percentage of shots on-target.

Order of practices: SSG, Technical, Skill, SSG.

Equipment: As many balls as possible around the edge of the pitch, one ball on the pitch, 2 goals.

Type of practice: Small Sided Game

Description/organisation:

Allow the players to play - see what needs coaching or what regressions/progressions are necessary. Only one condition of no throw-ins, the ball must be passed back into play - hoping to keep tempo of the game up and number of shots at goal.

Look for what the majority of players are failing to do when shooting or what they lack in their mechanics, this enables me to emphasise these coaching points in the technical and skill practices to ensure players understand how they can improve.

Still encourage the correct decision making; if shooting from own half - praise this but rehiterate that this wouldnt be realistic so to pass where possible.

Progressions/Regressions:

When confident with which coaching points have been made apparent by the players, the session can be stopped to move into the technical drill.

Technical pt 2

Part 2) Player 2 passes the ball to player 1, calling for a 1-2 to receive the ball again just inside the box to strikefirst time at goal. Player 2 then moves towards the 6 yard box.

Skill (15 mins)

Type of practice: Skill

Description/organisation:

The drill remains the same as the technical, however, the goalkeepers will get involved and the extra/waiting players will act as defenders.

Player 1's defender will start on the goal post, as soon as i blow the whistle to begin, they defender must work hard to try to close player 1 down before they get a shot off at goal.

Player 2's defender must apply pressure but not tackle, the must be touch-tight to player 2 at all times.

Player 3's defender must run into the box to defend against player 2 when player 3 takes their touch out at their feet.

Progressions/regressions:

The drill can be regressed by removing either the goalkeeper or defenders.

To progress the session, the group could be limited to shooting with their weaker foot only or targets could be put inside the goal to increase accuracy.