Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): School Soccer: Session Ideas - Warm-Ups
Premier Users' Club
Cale England
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10 mins
Organization
10x10 area
1 player in the middle
4 on the outside (depending on numbers, maybe 3)
1 ball per group
Activity
Rondo 2 touch max and the ball can't stop
Central player tries to prevent passes from getting through.
Defenders change once the defenders get possession of the ball or after 1 minute. Players keep track of the highest number of successful passes and it's a competition with other rondo groups.
Coaches Emphasis
Receiving body shape
First touch
Awareness
Passer setting the receiver up for success
Communication
Possible Progression
Encourage 1 touch passing if possible
Increase the speed of passing
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10 mins
Set Up:
13 cones (9 of 1 colour, 4 of another colour) needed per grid (two 4x4 yard grids each divided into four 2x2 yard boxes).
2 grids - 6 Players per grid (3v3) = 12 Players.
Each team get's 3 pinnies, different colour for each team.
Instructions:
Line starts at the yellow cone. 1st player in each line sprints to the Tic Toe Board (9 red cones as seen in image) and places their pinny on a cone then sprints back and tags their partner. Process continues until a team get's three in a row. Once all the bib's have been placed on the board, players can only move one of their teams bib's.
Progressions:
Introduce Soccer specific movements: Side shuffle to yellow cone and back, karaoke to yellow cone, etc. Ball at your feet, etc.
Psychological:
Confidence
Being Safe
Technical/Tactical:
Vision
Awareness
Physical:
A,B,C's
Change of Direction
Social/Emotional:
Fun
Communication
Peer interaction
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10 mins
Set up:
- 6 cones (3 each line)
- Same amount of player in each line
Instructions:
The pair at the front of the line leads the warm up under the supervision of a coach. Players perform a movement from the first marker to the second marker and then turn and jog to the start. Repeat using different movements.
Movements:
1. Jog
2. High knees
3. Heel kicks
4. Shuffling right
5 Shuffling left
6. Open the gate
7. Close the gate
8. Dynamic hamstring stretch
9. Lunges
10. Sprint (repeat twice)
Coaching emphasis:
Perform each movement correctly, it is not a race
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10 mins
Set-Up
- 4 large cones, 4 small cones
- 1 ball per player
- Have players complete various fundamental movement exercises around the cone and jog back to line (ie. high knees, butt kicks, open gates, close gates, etc.)
- Then have all players with a ball, divided between the four orange cones (have multiple stations for decreased wait times).
- Complete various dribbling exercises, dribbling out and around the red cone in front of them or turning before the red cone.
- After players are familiar with the activity, finish with a relay between the four groups.
If time permits, add a defender inside the box with the four red cones. Have players look for opportunities to dribble around the red cone. If the defender is too close, have the players turn.
Add another defender for an added challenge.
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10 mins
Set-Up:
As many tall cones as you will need (depending on the number of players you have) placed in a big circle. In the middle of the circle place as many discs as you have scattered like in the picture above.
Instruction:
Divide your group into lines of 2 or 3. They stand behind the tall cones. On coaches demand, the first player in line each runs as fast as they can to get 1 disc and bring it back to their cone. They place the disc on the tall cone and say go to the next person in line. Continue until there are no discs left. Whichever team has collected the most discs wins! Get players to take the discs off their cone, and scatter them back into the middle. Then you can play again.
Progressions:
1. To get to the discs you must run backwards.
2. To get to the discs you must hop on 1 foot, or two feet.
3. To get to the discs you must bear crawl.
4. To get the discs you must (high knees, butt kicks, karaoke, etc.)
5. They must dribble a ball to the disc, grab it and dribble back.
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10 mins
Ladder Exercises
Use the ladders and show players several different ladder exercises.
Coaching Points
- Emphasize doing it the right way, start slow then get faster
- Can you keep your head up?
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10 mins
Ball Tag
- The red team works together, throwing the ball to eachother to try and tag a black player.
- The red team can only tag a black player if they have possession of the ball in their hands and are right beside that player.
- If a black player is tagged by a red player they need to do a lap around the grid and are back in the game.
- Switch teams every few minutes.
- How can we communicate with our teammates?
- What works better? Short or long passes?
- How can we trap the black team?
Things to Consider
- Make the space smaller if the red team is struggling.
- Make the space bigger if the black team is struggling.
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10 mins
Physical Literacy - Tornadoes and Volcanoes
- Seperate your players into two teams, the Tornadoes and the Volcanoes.
- Playing one minute rounds the players have to flip the cones over to represent their team names, Volcanoes so the cones look like volcanoes and tornadoes so they look like tornadoes.
- After a minute the players will stop and the coach will count the cones and award a point to the team with the most cones representing their team.
- Play a few rounds this way and then add in different types of movements (Eg. hop on 1 foot or both feet, skip, shuffling, karaoke, gallop, etc.).
- After you've complete a few movements, play a few rounds with balls. When you play with balls the players have to stop their soccer ball next to the cone before they turn it over.
* Make sure you have a few more cones than players.
* For your final group, at the end of the game, the final round can be who can collect the most tornadoes and volcanoes and your area is tidy to set up your next activity.
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10 mins
Set-Up
To set up the activity, make a 20×20 meter grid. Then, divide the players into four teams and have them line up at the 4 corners of the grid. Next, place many soccer balls in the middle of the grid. Now the game can begin.
Instructions
Tell the players that they are ‘Robin Hood’ and the balls in the middle of the grid belong to the ‘rich’. Their job is to steal the balls from the rich and return them to their team. When the coach shouts ‘Go!’, the first player from each team should sprint to balls in the middle, perform a drag back on one of the balls, and then dribble the ball back to their team's grid. Once the player has controlled the ball in their team's grid, the next player should then sprint to retrieve the next ball. When there are no balls left in the middle, the team with the most balls is the winner!
Progressions
1. Perform a drag back to retrieve the ball from the middle.
2. Incorporate different turns or skill moves to retrieve the ball and challenge the players.
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Full Screen
Pause
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10 mins
Instructions:
The pair at the front of the line leads the warm up under the supervision of a coach. Players perform a movement from the first marker to the second marker and return to the start. Repeat using different movements.
Movements:
1. Jog
2. High knees
3. Heel kicks
4. Shuffling right
5 Shuffling left
6. Open the gate
7. Close the gate
8. Dynamic hamstring stretch
9. Lunges
10. Sprint (repeat twice)
Coaching emphasis:
Perform each movement correctly