Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): [Add Title...]Shooting

Player drink think zone

On arrival the players must wash their hands at the washing station & put their drink and belongings on a cone and not spread out. When they return to this zone berwwen excercises they must stick to their own cone and must keep all their beloniings. When training ends they must wash their hands again, collect their belongings and leave with their parent/guardian.

Shooting accross the keeper (15 mins)

Area:

Use area width of penalty area. line cones to define area for shooting. Put 2 gates with halfway back between edge of area and halfway line as shown. Set up 2 mannequins as shown so one side of the goal is more exposed.

Equipment:

Cones, poles, mannequins, balls

Objective:

The red team will pass to the blues to shoot and the blues will pass to the reds to shoot. Once you have taken your shot queue at the other side. Each side will take alternate goes.

Shooting from the left (for right footed player)

The shooting practice is designed to specifically shoot by opening up the body and shooting across the goal keeper or shifting the ball to the side to achieve the same thing. The blue player passing needs to execute a good through pass so the red shooting player can take minimal touches to shoot. They should pass to just outside the area in the shaded area.

Shooting from the right (right footed player)

The angle shooting from the right for a right footed player is very diffrent. To shoot across the goal keeper you need to drive/arrow the ball straight with the laces. A sidefoot finnish on this side will most likely casue the ball to curl away from the goal.

If the player is left footed then the same rules will aply but from the opposite side.

Progression/simplify:

Use a real goal keeper.

Key points:

Shooting accross the keeper is best practice in most situations unless the goal keeper is central or off their post. If you shoot across and the keeper saves, they will probably push the ball back into a dangerous area which a team mate can gamble and score on a rebound/follow up.

(left side) Encourage the player to bend their approach if they are opening up their body to curl into the far corner across the goal keeper or shift the ball with final touch to right side of the body to curl accross to the far side.

(Right side)

Encourage players to either take final touch before shooting to right side of body to execute a driven shot. If you haven't moved the ball enough to the right side of the goal then the driven pass would also go wide. Moving the ball away from goal on this side would draw the goal keeper to their left side making them unbalanced which will increase the chance of scoring.

(Both sides)

Get your head up between touches (especialy final touch before shooting) and look at goalkeepers position and set your sights to execute the shot you are trying to perform.