Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): ADC Week 3 - Dribbling and RWB

Bank it or bin it (20 mins)

Bank it or bin it

Set up as shown. Red players are the defending team and blue players are the attacking team. Blue players have to dribble the ball into the blue triangle areas to earn points, in order for their points to count they have to bank them by dribbling into the red BANK areas. The defenders have to steal a blue players ball and put it into the BANK and that player will lose as many points as they had after their last bank. So if a player has banked 5 points and since then has accumulated 3 points and then the defender gets the ball before they have banked the points, the attacker still only has 5 points and not 8.

Progression/Adaptation

- When blue players get a reds ball they then take there place and become attackers.

- Instead of dribbling into an area, the attacking players could use the boards of a cage to play a 1/2 - focus on passing.

- Double bubble area where attacking players can dribble into to bank double points. If a player has gathered 5 points and they bank the ball in the double bubble area they double it to make 10 points.

1 v 1 Chaos Game (10 mins)

1 v 1 Chaos Game

Set up 4 groups like above, if you have small goals great, this practice can also be used with coned goals or even played to end lines. Red player 1 will pass the ball to blue player 1 who will attack the goal ahead. Once the blue player 1 has taken their 1st touch red 2 will pass the ball to blue 2 who will attack the goal ahead. This practice takes some goes to get right but I like it because there is so much going on with 4 players in a small area at once. This practice is good with big numbers as it reduces waiting time.

Coaching Points: Be aware of what is around you, keep the ball moving, use a move to give you space to shoot

Progressions: Add spot markers as halfway lines and challenge players to score in certain halves