Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Passing & Dribbling session (Children’s Award Session 2018) (Start Time: 2019-02-18 19:05:00)

Warm-Up (10 mins)

Passing & Dribbling - Warm Up (10mins)

Players work in pairs as above diagram.

Player 1 dribbles into the circle of cones using the top of the foot, dribbles (little touches) his way into the middle & then works his way back out the circle (big touch into space) and then plays a weighted pass with the inside of his foot to player 2, Player 2 continues the cycle.

Coaching Points - Players to lift head to avoid collisons & to find space, Players to use body/arms to help protect ball form other players, to keep the ball on there safe side as much as possible, were looking for little touches to keep the ball close inside the circle and bigger touches outside the circle as theres space to run into. Players to lift head to see the pass, then play the pass. Player 2 to be on toes and asking for the pass.

Progression - dribble & pass with left foot only, dribble and pass with right foot only, dribble using both feet in the circle.

Game Related (30 mins)

Game Related - Passing & Dribbling (30mins)

For the purpose of the diagram ive used 6v6 throughout the session but for larger numbers you would just make the dimensions larger.

Let the players choose fomation to play (no gks)

Rules: No Offside, kick ins instead of throw ins, kick off after every point.

Objectives - For players to keep posession until 1v1 situations appear and then when the opportunty appears for players to take the risk and take that man on.

To win a point all you have to dribble over your opponents base line as shown above.

Coaching Points- Players to be checking over the shoulders at all time so there aware if they have space, players to communicate with each other for e.g time, turn, man on etc etc. Encourage players to be brave and express themselfs.