Futsal Session (Academy Sessions): Foot Skills

Foot Skills

Description

Coach shows scholars how to collect a ball and take it back to their spot, Place the ball on the soccer dot and take a big step back. Coach picks a player from each team to demo exactly what they just did. Coach will the say Red collect your soccer balls, All remaining red collect a ball of a red cone and take it back and place it on their red dot and take two steps back. Coach will then tell Yellow to collect a ball from a yellow dot. Once this routine is done to a high standard the end goal should be the coach says "Collect your ball" all scholars go at once in a safe and quick manner collect their ball put it on their spot and take a step back. The coach or captain should run the ball skills that are all done on each players individual soccer dot. Toe Taps, Side to side (Boxes) Roll, roll, roll stop, Toe taps and boxes combined etc. When coach blows whistle after 30 seconds to a minute players should switch from one foot skill straight to another foot skill.

Organization

• 15 Red balls
• 15 Yellow balls
• 15 Yellow soccer dots
• 15 Red Soccer dot
• 15 Red cones
• 15 Yellow cones 
• 15 players stand on Yellow dots
• 15 players stand on Red dots
  

Progression

• Can have captains that run the warm up and have autonomy to do any of the foot skill  activities 
• Captain can do multiple foot skills in one minute, after one minute captain can pick the next captain who runs the next minute.
• Coach can give points to the team who is showing the best technical skills during this time remove points from teams who are showing lees technical skill (coach should coach the players who are struggling technically)  

Coaching Points and High Level Questions 

• Players and toes in good sporting position
• Soft touches on ball
• Bounce from foot to foot
• Head up and not looking at the ball 

Questions 

• Why do foot skills help us in a game soccer?
• Why should we have our head up when we do foot skills ?
• When in a game would we use any of the foot skills we have learnt and why?