Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Year 3 - Passing

Year 3 - Warm-up (15 mins)

Key Factors

Square or Circle space - Players to stay inside area at all times

Reference to driving a car and using traffic lights

Traffic light game -

1) Red = stop and Green = go

2) Amber = 10 toe taps on the ball and then on to green (go)

3) Motorway (what does a car do on a motorway?) = go really fast

4) School crossing (what do you do in the car near a school or near a school crossing?) = go really slow

Coaching Points -

Lots of small little touches

How quickly can they put their ball on their foot when we say STOP, if they can do this quickly then they are most likely taking smaller touches instead of bigger touches.

Talk about finding space in the area, 1 point to the player who is in the most space when we say STOP. This encourages the players to look up and find space available.

Pssing Game (10 mins)

Cones / Gates to be placed around the area

Try to use different coloured paired cones so they the students can differentiate the cones close to them

How many times can they pass the ball through the cones in 30 secs?

Pass and move...

Can the students pass through a set of cones and then move to another set of cones that are free

Link this to vision and communication

How many gates can the students pass though in one minute?

Can they beat this score when we start again?