Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Skill Assessment Session

Dribbling Verbal and Visual

Organization:

Players will all be given ball in a scrimmage sized grid to dribble around freely in order to work on their footwork.

Instructions:

Players will dribble around freely until the coach places conditions on dribbling. Players may only use left and right foot, only inside, only outside, only sole of foot, ect.

Coaching Points:

Players must keep their heads up

Knowing when and where to use Messi and Ronaldo dribbles

Being balanced (knees bent, slightly hunched over)

Learning proper techniques to use all parts of their feet

Progressions:

Players will then progress onto Messi and Roaldo dribbles, and then be told when to do them.

Players will progress to keeping their heads up because there will no loner be verbal cues, but viual ones. (Coach puts hand up, then players explode into space)

Players will also progress to doing toe touches, boxes, and a fient both with verbal and visual cues.

Dribbling Conditioned Game (Basic)

Organization:

Standard size scrimmage grid with a small endzone one yard in depth.

Instructions:

Players will pay a directional possession game where the way to score points is to dribble over the end line.

Coaching Points:

Players will need to be comfortable dribbling with the ball and taking players on 1v1.

Players are encouraged to be creative and fearless taking players on.

Players must keep their heads up

Knowing when and where to use Messi and Ronaldo dribbles

Being balanced (knees bent, slightly hunched over)

Learning proper techniques to use all parts of their feet

Progressions:

The players will then progress to a possession game where all restarts can only be dribbled in.

The next progression could be that players must stop the ball on the line, not just dribble past it.