Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Tic-Tac-Toe using 2 grids

Screen 1 (15 mins)

Tic-Tac-Toe:

Activity Organization

Equipment:

2 grids 15x15

9 cones for one grid. 9 cones x 2 grids = 18 Cones

Set up cones in 3 row’s of 3 for each grid

Two games going on at the same time

4 different colors of pennies for 4 different teams

Cone Grids are 15 x15 with 3 rows of cones both vertically and horizontally.

Teams:

Four Teams of 6 = 24 players

Two teams play on one Tic Tac Toe Grid

Team that makes 3 in a row according to your color of penny make a

Tic Tac Toe line and receives points according to level of difficulty.

Different Levels of Difficulty

Level 1: Run to cone and leave your color penny on top of cone. 5pts

Level 2: Dribble ball to cone and drop penny on cone and dribble ball back to start line to pass off to next teammate. 10pts

Level 3: Juggle a ball to cone and juggle back to start line. 15pts

Level 4: Carry your teammate to cone, drop penny by player who is on the back of player carrying other and then go back carrying teammate and then switch. 1 run per pairs. 20 pts

Level 5: Runner is blindfolded and team has to guide him with words as to where he should go etc. 30 pts.

Activity Explanation:

-First person in each line you sprint to the cone patterns and place a penny on top of cone.

-Then you sprint back to your line and tag teammate that goes next to place a penny on the cone.

-Once you have your color pennies in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line then your team wins and collects 5 pts.

-As we move from level to level the harder the level the more points you can get.

-1st =5pts

-2nd= 10 pts

-3rd= 15 pts

-4th= 20pts

-5th= 30 pts

-After each activity, we have them rest for at least 2 minutes so that we can get started with the next activity.

-At the end the teams with the highest point total win and receive a small trophy for the win and team effort.

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-For example, We normally break our competition into two separate days where it won’t affect the players periodization for that period in the season therefore levels 1 and 2 will be day 1 and 3 and 4 will be day 2. We can alternate however we want which at times we do also.

-Each game ranges in terms of the time it takes for players to score so in general the activity with two different levels takes about 15 minutes since we have to explain, teams talk as to what order they will go etc.