Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Small Group Session - Return to Training (Social Distance) #1

Activity 1 (5 Mins)

Setup: Players 2m apart - each player has 2 cones close to each other (blue) and 1 cone in front - about 10 yards away.

1). Relays. Always start with a movment at the beginning followed by a run to the cone in front (low intensity to start)

- Hop and Hold (left to right) / In & Out of cones / Figure of 8 (movements to start with)

Arm Swings, Side-Steps, Forwards-backwards into short sprint, Crossovers, Skips, Hip Rotations, Stright Leg Kick Ups, Bicycle kicks, Leg behind into knee up, Fast High Knees, Open Strides, Side Shuffles

Recovery: Walk back after each exercise

2). Add a ball. Same format but now using a ball. Dribbling out to the cone in front and dribbling back.

- Hop and Hold (left to right) / In & Out of cones / Figure of 8 (movements to start with)

Changing speed of dribble, direction, amount of touches (take 10 touches before reaching the cone), left or right foot, skill (step-overs etc).

Activity 3 - (15 Mins)

Passing and Recieving Drill - Setup: 5 areas to ensure players are at least 2m apart (use big area and seperate into 5 sections for each player).

Play begins with Player 1. The first pass is played to Player 3 who plays a bounce pass to Player 2. Player 2 then plays across to Player 5 who plays the ball back into Player 3's feet. Player 3 then passes to Player 4 who plays back to Player 1. In total there is 6 passes in this sequence with each player touching the ball once and Player 3 touching the ball twice.

Player 3 is the connecting player between the yellows and the blues. When the ball is played to the Blue side they must make 2 passes (one to player 3 and one to either player 4 or 5) and on the third pass the ball is returned to the yellow side.

This is to encourage movement off the ball and reading the game. Player 3 is encouraged to make movements across the pitch so that he can link up play. No 2 players should be on the same side (i.e both yellow players at the top of the pitch, they must be positioned as above)

Progressions: Different sequences of passes or rotations of positions after a pass to get players to think about what are they doing after the pass.