Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): DIVING

Arrival (10 mins)

Organization:

2x2 sqaure, maximum of 4 players in a sqaure.

Instructions:

Keep It Up: Each player must stand outside the square on a side. One keeper begins by serving the ball with their hands, bouncing it into the sqaure. Together as a team you are only trying to let the ball hit ground once before the next player can hit it with their hands to keep it up. Count how many times yo can progress without the ball bouncing twice.

Coaching Points:

Set Position: On balls of feet, knees bent, elbows out from body, palms facing each other perpindicular to ground half-way between feet and head

Progressions:

P- Must alternate who touches the ball, playing against other pair.

P- teammates must be opposite.

Technical Repitions (25 mins)

Organization:

Three 2x2 boxes

Balls divided evenly

Instructions:

Goalkeeper starts on knees in middle of box. Server from 1 yard outside box rolls keeper ball on ground, keeper gives ball back while still on ground. Rotate sides after each save. After 6 repitions, rotate server with keeper. After two sets of receiving the ball on the ground, server tosses ball to side of keeper while on their knees for collapse dive save, same repitions and rotation.

Coaching Points:

Extended Dive when ball is on ground outside of reach

Collapse Dive when ball is in air outside of reach

Pushing off legs to propel body in direction of save

Knees bent

Footwork, efficiencey in steps

Using two hands to make save

Hands shape of the ball

Momentum going forward to make save

3 points of contact when ball is on ground

Look at ball after making save before giving ball back to server

Progressions:

P- Stand for low/high collapse dives

P- Server stands 6 yards back and shouts a number 1 through 4, goalkeeper goes around corresponding cones from out to in making save in direction of momentum.

Conditioned Game (20 mins)

Organization:

Two 24x24 area's with two game size goals on each field.

Instructions:

Play 4v4. If the ball goes out of bounds, the opposite goalkeeper begins play from the back. If a goal is scored, a penalty is taken for a bonus point.

Coaching Points:

Progressions: