Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Syosset U7 + U8 11/9

Cannon Ball Run (15 mins)

Organization:

All Players lined up on one side without a soccer ball

All Soccer balls lined up with the Coach on the sideline

Instructions:

Players must make it across the grid without getting hit below the knees with a soccer ball

If a player is struck, they join the coach for the next rounds and try to hit other players

Game continues until one player is left

Coaching Points:

Strike through the center of the ball with laces

Toe down, body just over the ball - not leaning forward or back

Follow through with your strike

Try to land on your kicking foot

Progressions:

Shooter Becomes Keeper (15 mins)

Organization:

Players divided into two teams

Half start on the post with soccer balls, half start out on the cone

Instructions:

Red team passes the ball from A to B

The player at B can shoot it first time or take a touch and shoot.

Red Player from point B then runs and becomes the goalie

Blue then performs the same routine (Pass from A to B, player at B becomes goalie)

And so the rotation continues over and over

Coaching Points:

First time Strike:

Knee over the ball

Timing of your strike (eye on the ball)

Touch and Strike:

First touch out of your feet

Eye on keeper (placement or power?)

Contact with laces, through the center of the ball for power

Contact with instep/inside of foot for placement

Progressions: