Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Running With The Ball & Dribbling (Start Time: 2025-02-12 18:30:00)

Warm Up (10 mins)

Warm Up - 5 Minutes

Place 4 agility poles in a line approx 1M apart

Place a cone approximately 5 metres after the last agility pole

Separate the bibs into 2 colours and place bibs on the cone

Players take it in turns to slalom through the poles and put on a bib run back and tag the next person to go

Winning team is the first team with all players bibbed up and back in line

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions):  

The players can run through a second time but no need to re-bib.

Dribbling & RWB Skill (10 mins)

Dribbling and Running With The Ball Skills - 10 Minutes

Create a box using 4 cones in each corner of the pitch

2 players go in each box

2 players go in the middle of the pitch

Players dribble around in each box using both feet and alternating surfaces, and

on the coaches whistle the players in the box need to move to another box without being tackled by the player in the middle

Winner is last player remaining

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions):

Regresssion: shorten distance between boxes and reduce the tacklers down to 1 or even remove all tacklers

SSG (10 mins)

SSG - 20 Minutes

All restrictions removed, encourage players to find space and try to get the ball played out wide where there will be more chance to run with the ball and open their legs up.