Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Turning

Warm up (20 mins)

Organization:

30x30yrd grid. Cones scattered in various areas of the grid

Instructions:

- Players to dribble around the area in/out of the cones.

- Players with a ball each doing ball mastery moving from cone to cone: bell touches, outside/inside, toe taps, rolls, roll-stop etc. (moves carried out using inside, outside, and bottom of the left foot and right foot)

- Players to practice dribbling moves at the cones that had been done in previous session (feint move/double feint move/scissor/double scissors)

Inrdroduce the Truns that we will work on during the session.

Coaching Points:

Messi vs Ronaldo touches.

- Head up and look for space (look for a cone that other players are not going to). Also when doing the ball mastery look forward at the cone, training to get head up when moving with the ball.

- Body position low when performing the dribbling move to change direction

- Moves done at speed and under control

Progressions:

- Various dribbling moves

Main Theme2 (25 mins)

Organization:

20*20 gate in the middle of the grid-2 small goals - one cone 5 yrd from the starting line of the defenders.

Instructions:

Attackers start dribbling the ball to the gate, approching the gate Attackers will execute the turn and try to score in any of the 2 small goals.

Coaching Points:

1. Messi touches (Outside of foot-Short & quick touches)

2. Slow down right before performing turn.

3. Turn body with turning technique = One motion

4. Due to performing double turn- sell (fake) accelaration of first turn right before performing 2nd turn.

5. After 2nd turn accelarate into open space with Ronaldo touches ( Laces-Long-3 steps away)

Progressions: