Sesión de Fútbol (Sesiones de Academia): U5-U6 Dribbling Activity

Warm Up (5 mins)

Organization: 20 X 20 area, 8-12 players, 1 ball per player

Instructions: Each player will dribble a certain number of touches as instructed by the coach. Players will use various surfaces of the foot throughout as instructed. When coach yells "Toe Taps," "Foundations," or "L-turns," players will perform 10 of that type of ball mastery. When coach yells "Switch," players will stop the ball and find a new ball to dribble.

Coaching Points: Toe down, using laces and pinky toe to push the ball in front. Head up to avoid running into other players. Accelerate into space when available and slow down in tight space.

Progressions:

P- Introduce skills to be worked on

P- Coach holds up different colored pinnie to make players look up and yell what is in the coach's hand.

Bank Robbers 2 (10 mins)

Dribbling - MINI KICKS - Bank Robbers

Organisation:

30x40 area with 4 5x5 squares in each corner.

Instructions:

Once all the balls have been retrieved from the middle and brought back to the corners, on coach command, teams have 1 minute to go "rob" the other corners to try to get more balls into their corner. Players can opt to go steal balls, or they can choose to defend their bank.

Progression: Prohibit players from staying inside their own corner.

Regression: Allow players to stay inside their own corner.

Competitive: How many can your team steal (defend)?

Coaching points:

Outside (pinky-toe) for close control.

Laces for fast, longer distance dribbling.

Heads up to locate players coming to steal.

Head up to locate players trying to defend while stealing.