Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Fall - Stage 1 - week 2 - 1v1

Screen 2

We start the game without balls and as a tag game. One team is the attacking team and needs to run and go through one of the two diagonal goals in the opposite side. If they do without the tagger touching them, it's a point and new players come on the field.

The defense team needs to tag the players.

After time, they switch roles.

Coaching points: the coaching points about this game will be about the players body movement. 

- step/throw your body to one side to move the defender, and move quickly to the opposite side

- change your directions fast

- trick the defender looking one way and go the opposite way.

Screen 4

Now, the teams will take opposite goals (like in the image). One player with the ball will face a defender from the opposite team. This time, the player needs to beat the defender and get space enough to make a pass to the team mate who is waiting in the opposite goal. If the pass is successful, the player who received the ball will do the same, against the same defender.

We only switch defenders when the defender steal the ball back or put the ball out of bounds. 

If the ball goes out, or the defender recovers, now the defender's team will be the attacking and the team that just lost the ball, will be the defenders.

Progression:

- now, one team is the attacking one, and we only switch, when the defender gets the ball back and find a pass to one of their two gates.