Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): HYSC Hornets Small Sided Condition Game Play

Ball mastery Warm UP indervidual/group possession (20 mins)

Organization:

Area size 15 x 20 or 20x30

every player with a ball

2-4 Pug goals or cone goals as shown above

players split into two teams with pinnies.

Instructions

depending on the goals you want to set for your teams each week choose from the bellow foundations the best ones to bring out the learning outcomes you want your players to acheive during the game.

Group/individual control

start by giving each player 5 points at the start of the session when they do somthing well like a move or answer a question based on the topic you can give them a point to reward them, if they do something wrong you can take points away giving them ownership of their own progress holding them accountabe for each step and motivating them to be better and compete to be the best from the minute the session starts.

the player with the most points at the end of the session will recieve MVP!!!!

GK's )if you have GK's in the game add in rules specificaly for them such as allow them to use there hands to steel in the indervidual and group posession activitys.

Foundations Part 1 individual possession surface control & Soccer side work recap

as the player trickle in before a game have them recp the home work that was sent out . then when the majority of the group is there .each player must complete a series of ball mastery surface control the coach or player will demonstrate the bellow list of moves and have the players copy for 1 minute of repetition for each one

beginner

-pendulums inside of the foot forward+backward

-toe taps forward+backward

intermediate

-v turn & touch

-u turn & touch

advanced

-L turn & touch

-Ronaldo chop & touch

- Z turn & touch 

- showtime

Foundations part 2 individual possession player attributes

players dribble the ball around the inside of the grid and cover each foundation M,X,R,I.players will also be given a number 1,2,3 or 4 on each team.

on coaches command they will call out a number the players whos numbers were called out will become defenders trying to steel the ball. in the example in the diagram #2 was called so both #2's will go to defend

If the defenders steel they will transition and try to score in one of the pug goals for a point

the players on the ball will gain points by keeping possession of the ball for the entire round.(30 second rounds).

Player characteristics

"Painting the Picture" of each one of the player's characteristics: * MESSI: Head up looking to get into the gaps using small, quick touches with the Pinky Toe (outside of the foot). * XAVI: Head up to recognize when there's no gaps/space, then change of direction (12 o'clock to 6 o'clock), ball comes out of your feet, and then head and eyes up getting into the new space. * RONALDO: Head up to see when there's a lot of space in front of you, then big touch to accelerate and get your head/eyes up and attack the space. *INIESTA : Head up to recognise small tight spaces ,using the inside/outside surfaces of the foot to unbalance defenders to make the space big enough to penetrate.

Foundations part 3 Group possession

-same set up as foundations part 2 but this time the teams share one ball and keep possession as a group. coach will call out a number and this time they will go to defend against their opposite color. every 3 passes they can make, they will receive a point and an extra 3 points if they maintain possession for they entire round.

-if the defence steels the ball they must transition to score to gain a point they can also combine to go to goal too.

Coaching Points:

Individual possession

-Knowing when to hold,protect, dribble and when to run with the ball

-Timing and execution of moves

-Cut & accelerate into spac