Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Advanced first touch

6 Cone Dribbling warm up (15 mins)

Set up 6 cones equally spread apart. Player starts on the top red cone. Performs a skill towards the blue cone, goes around behind the blue cone and moves up to the middle blue cone. Player performs the skill at the blue cone and moves towards the red cone, moves around the red cone and moves up to the next red cone. At the red cone on the last row, player performs the move towards the blue. Once player gets the blue the turn around at repeats the sequence again.  

• Tap tap outside roll 
• Pull back outside roll
• L-Turn outside roll
• Step over outside roll 

First touch box (15 mins)

Set up a Square with cones or poles, mark the two bag poles in blue and the front two red.

Player (red) starts in the middle of the square. Coach/Feeder starts on the outside of the square. Coach/Feeder plays a pass into the middle of the square. The players bounces the ball back to the feeder. The player moves out to the left without the ball. The feeder takes a touch out to the left with the ball and plays the ball back to the player. The player then turns and takes the ball around the back of the square taking on the mannequin. The player then passes the ball back to the feeder who is now on the right of the square. The feeder then plays the ball straight back to the player who takes a touch into the middle of the square starting the sequence again. Play for 90 seconds then flip to go in the opposite direction.

+ Use the colors to indicate which way the player should go. When the player is on the outside of the square coach calls a color. if the coach calls red the player takes their touch into the square bounces the ball back. to the feeder and then goes out the square on the opposite side., if the coach calls blue the player takes their touch around the back of the square and take on the mannequin