Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Space Invaders

Space Invaders (5 mins)

ALIENS IN THE GALAXY GAME

Aliens in the Galaxy is a great game for five-year-old children as it’s fast paced with lots going on. 

It focuses on the players changing direction, skills, dribbling the ball with control and passing with accuracy.

Get all the players into an area but give only one or two of them a ball. Those with balls are aliens, the rest without are humans desperately trying to avoid being turned into extra-terrestrials themselves.

The way in which the aliens can add more people to their team is by hitting the humans below knee height with their ball. When a human is hit, they become an alien by collecting a ball from the side of the pitch and joining the hunt to create more aliens.

For those without balls, this is a good drill for developing skills such as finding space off the ball, changing direction, as well as improving fitness levels – stand still for a minute and you won’t be a human for long! In the game, for those with the ball it improves dribbling skills as well as accuracy when it comes to trying to get the humans.