Ball Mastery Warm Up

Category: Friendly | Difficulty:Beginner | Score: 0:0

Profile Summary

Name:	Bloomsbury Football
City:	London
Country:	United Kingdom

Build 3D sessions in seconds

Access to 1000’s of sessions

Professionalise and modernise your coaching

Used by the world’s best coaches

US$

per year

Join today

Description

This ball mastery warm up is for bears all the way to u11.

Each player has a ball each, working on getting as many touches as they can. In this image, the cone layout is a box.

Dimension for box dependant on numbers and ages:

Bears with 12 players max: 15x15

FP 6 players: 8x8

FP 7-12 players: 12x12

The box can be one colour however in this drill, the box is multi-coloured but in order eg. Red cones in the corner, then green, then yellow, then blue and then back to red.

Warm up

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive images.

Save Image:

Warm up

Formation: Bloomsbury Football: 4-4-2 |N/A: 4-4-2

Description

15 minute warm up:

Players are dribbling the ball, keeping it inside the box. Players should be encouraged by the coach to show off any skill or any combination of skill (dependant on ability and age).

After 2 minutes of observing the warm up, ask player or select a player to show a skill to the rest of the group. Once the player has done a skill, ask the other players to try and practice that skill. Do this for a total of three times.

For stronger ability players, get them to do a combination or skill or ask them if they can put all three skills together.

After 8 minutes, introduce the colours of the square. The coach will then call out a colour. Once the colour has been called the player must leave their ball, touch a colour cone with their feet and come back to their ball. Progression for the warm up is as follows:

Dribble the ball to the cone
Dribble the ball around the cone
Dribble the ball to the cone and do a turn.

Towards the end of the warm up, add 1 or 2 defenders (with bibs) and get the players to keep the ball away from the defender. Rotate defender after 30-45 seconds.

To encourage more active learning time, do not stop the warm up to change the defender, just change them as the warm up goes on.