Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Shooting 2

Warm Up (10 mins)

On Arrival:

Practice individual skills moves learned this season

Organization: 2 12x18 fields, 1 10x12 field with 2 yard wide minitraffic cones goals, 1 ball per field

Instructions: 

Players will player in 90 second-2 minute games

2v2 on bigger fields and 1v1 on smaller field

Coaching Points:

Let the players play, Positive Encouragement, Have fun

Progressions:

No celebration = No goal; Competition Ladder; Winners move up, Losers move down to 1v1 (La Liga,

Unopposed (10 mins)

Organization:

Goals 30 yards apart, 12 players, 12 Balls, 30x40 area

Instructions:

Player A makes eye contact with Player B and they both dribble around the blue cone going on to score in the opposite goal

Once they have scored Player C & D do the same thing

Players then join the back of opposite line

Coaching Points:

Head up to make eye contact

Big touches to get to blue cone

Small touches after blue cone for closer control before shooting

Using pinky toe to dribble

Look up at goal before shooting

Inside of foot to place into corner

Progressions:

Players get 2 points for chip

Conditioned Game/Free Play (35 mins)

Organization: 24 x 30 area, 3 Teams of 4.

Instructions:

Players play 4v4 with one team resting

After taking a shot, each player from that team must touch a cone on the side of the field.

First team to 2 goals or after 2 minutes -winner stays on

Coaching Points:

Can we finish early?

Observation of goalkeeper's position, is the chip on?

Take big touch to unbalance goalkeeper

Progressions:

Only the shooter has the touch cone in the corner of the field.

3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

2nd and 3rd place teams will play to determine who plays 1st in the final game.