Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Seoul Earthquakes, Session 9 / 10: 9am Y1 & Y2

Warm Up (5 mins)

Warm Up

- Scatter balls around area (approx 30 x 20)

- Players jog inside the area in various directions, when they reach a ball they must skip or jump over it

- Every 30 seconds (approx) change action when arriving at a ball (e.g. 360 around ball or squat/sit on ball etc.)

Progression:

1) Challenge players to change their type of movement from ball to ball (e.g. skipping, backwards jogging, crawling)

2) When arriving at a ball perform ball exercise e.g. toe taps, boxes, bounces, throw and clap

3) Competition: Race to perform certain action at 5 balls, first player to 5 balls and sat down is the winner

Game - Traffic Lights (20 mins)

Organisation

Start players on one side of the pitch. 1 player 1 ball.

Coach holds three different coloured cones behind his back:

Red cone = Stop

Green cone = Go

Yellow cone = Turn and go back

On coaches signal players must dribble across to the other side without losing control of the ball. If at any time the coach raises "Stop" and players lose control of their ball or continue dribbling they must go back to the side they started.

If coach raises the "Turn" cone, players must immediately turn with their ball and run back to the side they started.

Progression:

Coach can drop the cones to signify "Danger", coach is then active and tries to steal players balls, players must escape from the coach and reach the side they started from without their ball being taken.