Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Soccer Schools Win the Battle Skills Challenge

Skills Challenge (25 mins)

Skills Challenge - Defending

Set Up

- In pod, make four boxes in each corner of the area. 20x15.

- One player needs to stand in each box

- 1 Defender completing the skills challenge

- 5 Attackers trying to score one at a time

Aim

- The attacker needs to try and score in the goal

- The defender needs to try and defend against the attacker and pass the ball into the players in the boxes

- There will be a score out of 5. Therefore 5 attackers trying to score, and the defender has 5 chances to get points.

- Each pass into the box from the defender classes as 1 point.