Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): 6U-8U Social Distancing - Session 1

Ball/Body Mastery (15 mins)

Set up

- Each player is directed to their own 5x5 island with a tall cone in the centre. Players place water bottle at the back of their square and face the goals in the centre.

- Talk to players and explain that that players need to stay on their island and can only swim in the middle zone when the coaches allows a player to.

Play

- Players perform a variety of ball mastery and body mastery tasks on their island.

Tic tocs - Toe touches - Sole rolls - Laces push and pull - Inside outside - Hop with the ball

Can we perform the same moves around the cone?

Jump over ball forward and backward - left to right - single leg hop - two footed hop - two footed hop with ball

Goal Scoring - Pass the parcel (15 mins)

Set up

Each player is directed to their own 5x5 island with a tall cone in the centre. Each side of the area has it's own goal and only one player will be able to score on the goal at a time.

Talk to players and explain that that players need to stay on their island and can only swim in the middle zone when the coaches allows a player to.

Play

On the coaches command, one player per area, dribbles the ball into their sea and plays a give and go with each of the other players they share a sea with before turning and scoring in the goal.

Progression

- Receiving player on the island has to receive the ball one side of the tall cone and then roll it across their body and pass on the other side of the cone.

- Player passing into the island has to knock down the middle cone in each receiving players island, if the pass onto the island misses, the receiver on the island can to try and help knock down the cone before passing back out to the dribbler.

**Remind players if a cone gets knocked down they are only allowed to use their feet to rebuild the cone or ask for help from a coach.