Marcos Palacios
| Name: | Marcos Palacios |
|---|---|
| City: | Spring |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Membership: | Adult Member |
| Sport: | Football/Soccer |

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Warm Up
10 Minutes
Equipment Needed: Bibs, Cones, Balls
Game: Fox Catcher
Game 1: Play for 1 minute. Players try to get the balls from the other side by running, picking ball up, and bring back to their side. Team with the most balls at the end wins.
Progression: Players can tag the other team if they have a ball in their hand to get the ball back.
Coaching Points: Teach all in the form of questions
Players must run with their head up to see where defenders are (Where should you be looking when you are running?)
Players must change direction to avoid defenders (Who are you trying to stay away from?)
Players must help their teammates (How do you help your teammates?)
Coaching Points:
Players should take smaller touches to keep the ball under control
Players need to be able to turn with the ball, stopping it with the inside or bottom of the foot.
Game 2: Players now must dribble the ball back.

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Running With The Ball to score
15 Minutes
Equipment Needed: cones, balls
Game: Don't Wake The Lion
You can use the same 20x20 grid as the warm up.
All players with a ball.
Coach begins as the lion. When the coach is facing the players, they must have their foot on the ball. When the coach "lion" turns around (falls asleep) they players race to see who can score on the goal first. Be careful, if the lion wakes up, you must protect your ball by putting your foot on it.
Tips:
Encourage pull backs by saying if the lion sees you and runs after you, you have to do a pull back to rock the lion back to sleep.

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2v2 Games
15 Minutes
Equipment Needed: Mini Goals, balls
We are now going to play 2v2. Coach rolls a ball out and players play 2v2. Put half of the team in yellow bibs and half in no bibs.
Coaching Points:
1. move away from your teammate to create space
2. player dribbling should see space, defender, and teammate
3. if we have a defender close to our teammate, how can we help them.

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Game
15 Minutes
Final 10-15 minutes of each session we will end with a 4v4 game to let them have fun. There should be minimal coaching going on, other than simple reminders of what we have worked on through the day, and basic knowledge of team shape.
We will set them up in a diamond shape.
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Set Up
Team: U5 Denmark
Players: 8
Time: 5:50-6:40
Location: Farm League Field 10
Equipment: Cones, Bibs, Balls, Mini Goals
Topic: Running with the ball
Warm Up - 10 Minutes
Running With The Ball - 15 Minutes
Changing Direction - 15 Minutes
Game - 15 Minutes