Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Basic Possession with Fitness (Start Time: 2020-06-28 10:30:00)

Warm Up / Conditioning (5 mins)

1) Basic warm up & stretches

- Starting at first cone, move to the end cone completing each of the below exercises, followed by a gentle jog back to the start before doing the next:

- Knees up

- Heel flicks (to bums)

- Side steps

- Open gates

- Close gates

- Headers

- Quick feet (in & out of each cone)

- Slalom

Stretch out key muscles ready for more intense physical activity

2) Figure 8

HIIT running. Gentle jog the short sides, sprint the diagonals. 1 full figure of 8 = 1 circuit.

3 circuits.

3) Shuttle runs

Cones placed 6, 12, 18 and 25 yards from starting point. Shuttle runs between all 4.

Pass & Move (10 mins)

Part 1 is a simple pass and move in a triangle. The shape can be modified, but there must be one more player than cone as otherwise once Player A moves to follow their pass, the first station will have nobody to receive a pass.

Pass, follow the pass. 

Part 2 is as above except this time a 1-2 is thrown in. A passes to B who follows the pass, but receives the ball back from B halfway between the two cones. B then starts to move towards C and gets the ball back from A at the half way point. This pattern then continues with all other players.

Play the way you're facing (20 mins)

4 corners of a square, each with more than one player waiting behind it.1 ball. 

All 4 players run to diagonally opposite cone at the same time.Ball carrier does not have to pass the ball, likewise not every player has to touch the ball.

Whoever has the ball should only pass to someone within their eye line and not somebody who has run beyond them or has their back to the ball. 

To start with, this could be done at walking pace with the players holding and throwing the ball. As they get to grips with the practice, move the pace up and pass with feet. 

The object of this is to encourage holding the ball if not obvious, sensible pass is on and not just guessing where somebody is or passing to somebody that's not within a player's eye line meaning they'd have to quickly adjust their body position. 

To really advance it, a defender could be added into the middle who doesn't move, but just tries to intercept close by passes. This makes it a bit harder and will further emphasise the need to make sensible passes so that ball isn't given to the opposition.