Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): ALITHSA Arsenal: Defending #3

Station #1 - Blocking Shots (15 mins)

Blocking Shots:

- Set up as shown in diagram, 1/2 players start as def and 1/2 as attackers (blue)

- Defender plays pass to blue attacker and attempts to get body in front of the ball and block shot

- Attackers receives and trys to get shot off, must take at least one touch before shooting

- Shooter joins defening line, defender joins attacking line

COACHING POINTS:

- Get goal-side of ball and deny shot

- Angle of run to block shot in getting goal-side of ball

- Distance when goal-side: don't sell yourself but don't allow shot

Station #3 - Heading Challenge (15 mins)

Heading Challenge:

- Start out by having players head ball back to the sever and go to a different sever so that they get comfortable heading the ball (servers challenge inside player with service that makes the player jump for header).

MAIN ACTIVITY

 - Set up in groups of 3 (number players 1-3); #1 serves first

- Numbers 2 & 3 compete aganst each other with arial balls; they go to a sever who throw balls in the air, compete with header and then go to another server.

- If a player gets his head on the ball first he gets a point, if he heads ball back into severs hands, he gets two points.

- Play for 90 sec then rotate server

COACHING POINTS:

- Timing of run & Win space early

- Use arms for leverage and space

- Eyes on ball, head up, watch ball leave head