Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Coaches Corner U11+ WK 2

Warm Up (10 mins)

Organization:

1. Grid 15x20 yard area.

2. Every player has a ball

Instructions:

1. On coaches call players perform following Series of Moves and Turns:

Turns:

a) - Inside Hook

b) - Outside Hook

c) - Stop Turn

d) - Pull Back

e) - Cruyff

f) - Ziko

Technical Skills:

a) - Stop and Go

b) - Scissors

c) - Double Scissors

d) - Drag Push

e) - Jay Jay Okocha

f) - Neymar Flick

h) - Maradona

i) - Ronaldo Chop

Coaches Points:

1. Dribble at good pace.

2. Encourage players to play with freedom trying new tricks and turns out.

3. Awareness of both players and space within area to dribble in.

Core Activity 2 (15 mins)

Organization:

1. Grid is 10x10 yards

2. Each grid gets 4 tall cones and 4 smaller cones

3. Players start at small cones (as shown above)

4. Can set up four or more pitches easily allowing 4 or 6 players per pitch.

Instructions:

1. Defending Team A pass the ball over to attcking Team B the goals is to score by dribbling through either one of the orange cones goals (as shown above)

2. Goal only counts if ball is dribbled through.

3. Again defender and attacker switch after each go or allocated amount of time

Coaches Points:

1. Change of pace and direction

2. Decistion on movement to beat defender

Choice of turn or trick

Possitive play to beat opponent

Small Sided End Zone Game (15 mins)

Organization:

1. 20 x 20 Grid

2. Seperate players into 2 teams

3. Coach has extra balls

4. 2 End Zones 5 x 20 (as shown above)

Instructions:

1. Players goal is to simply dribble the ball into the opponents blue coned zone which will count as a goal.

2. Once a goal is scored the team that scored can turn and attack again (keeping possession).

3. Play for an allocated amount of time or until X goals.

Coaches Points:

1. Movement off the ball - find space where you can join the attack and dribble to score.

2. Communicate with teammates

3. Head up

4. Be Creative!

5. Spacial awareness on tight pitch so important

6. Encouraged players to get into most space possible and should always demanding and asking for the ball from other players

7. Help build confidence

Progression:

1. Limit passing - Every player must attempt to go it alone and dribble into zone.