Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Academy W3S2 - Dribble to Penetrate

Cross Traffic (10 mins)

Have half the kids line up along each end line. Everyone has a ball. On the coach’s signal the all kids try to dribble across the grid to the opposite side without crashing into another player who is coming from the opposite side. If players crash, they must do a skill designated by the coach (scissors, 10 foundations, etc.) before continuing. #2. Progress to having kids dribble from all four sides so that there is traffic in all directions.

•How do you know whether to go fast or slow? (Vision)

•What part of your foot will you use to dribble fast? (outside)

•Should the ball get closer to your foot as other’s get closer to you?

Coaching Points:

•Change of direction and Change of Speed

-Vision when open space

•Outside the foot touches to speed dribble

•As pressure gets closer, the ball gets closer to the foot

Line/Number Soccer (20 mins)

Set up one field 25 x 30 with one gate on each end. Split the players into two teams and number the players on each team (ex. 1,2,3,4,5,6). The opposing team should have a player whose number matches a player on the other team. Each team lines themselves up along one touch line. The coach will play a ball into the field and call a number. The player from each team who has that number enters the field to play against their counterpart from the other team. Vary the game and call multiple numbers so that they play in 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and even 4v4 situations. Designate which team is attacking which gate. You can even call out situations where there’s numbers up situations.

Coaching Points:

•Change of direction & Change of speed

•Push ball past defender then cut off defender towards goal

•Accelerate while cutting off defender