Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): EDP Dribbling 1

Station 1: Tic Tac Toe (15 mins)

Tic tac toe:

1. Set up the cones as shown in the video. a 3 x 3 grid, a small square of two differing colors in front of the 3 x 3, a starting cone for each team, and a pile of comes for each team in the color corresponding to the small box color. 

2. Each team will have 1 ball and work as a team. The first player will grab a cone of their color in their hand, take the ball, dribble into the square of their color and stop the ball leaving it in the square

3. The player will then place their color cone on top of one of the cones in the tic tac toe grid

4. The player will then go back to the square, get their ball and dribble all the way back to the line where the next player will go

5. First team to get tic tac toe wins

Make it Harder: larger distances between the grid or between the start of the line and the box. Allow them to stack cones until someone wins if all the spots have already been filled and nobody has won.

Make it Easier: make everything closer together. Have a coach stand in the tic tac toe board helping them choose where to place their cones.

Station 3: Dribbling Relays (15 mins)

Dribbling Relay Races: 

1. Split the group up into even numbers with ~3 players per team

2. Place each group in front of simple dribbling obstacles (shown above is just a line of cones to serpentine through, but imagination can be used here)

3. One player from each group goes at a time dribbling through the course. The next player goes when the previous one dribbles all the way back to the start

4. First team to finish wins

NOTE: If you have uneven numbers have players from the group with fewer players go more than once. Have players use different parts of their foot to complete the obstacle course.