Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Radford U10 Girls (Session 7) 1st Touch to Progress the Ball close to body

Warm Up & Circuit - Isolated training (15 mins)

Circuit   

Warm Up:

• Station 1:

  • Running across forwards, sideways, & backwards x 2
  • Passing and moving in Triangles (1min)
  • Volleys and moving in Triangles (1min)
  • Moving Triangles along grid, jog back and restart (x3)
• Station 2: 
  • Running With The Ball through poles (x 3)

Freeze +3 (20 mins)

Set Up

• Half Field
• 3 x goals - 1 Central + 2 x small wide 
• Players in 2 Teams + 1xGP
• Bibs
• 1 Ball in Play + Spares with GP

Aim:

• Both teams aim to maintain space and shape to progress the ball 
• Players to practise identifying positioning to receive and make purposeful passes in a game context
• Attackers play towards and score in 2 wide goals and when in BPO defend central goal
• Defenders defend 2 wide goals and when in BP play towards and aim to score in central goal 

Instructions:

• Game play starting with playing out from the back by GP
• On Coach whistle players freeze & scan their positioning, then on 2nd whistle they have 3 seconds to re-position, 3rd whistle play.

Progressions:

• Only one whistle for freeze and one whistle to restart - players re-positioning themselves in the 3 seconds in-between whistles.
• Share GP role
• Swap ends