Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Dribbling Games

fruit trees (15 mins)

20 x 20 area

Players have to dribble around a pick the fruit (small cones) of the the trees (traffic cones) one at a time and bring the fruit to the gorilla.

Once all the fruit has gone the players have to cut down the trees. This is done by dribbling up to the tree and kicking their ball against the tree to knock it down.

As the world needs trees the player now have to plant new ones. So the players have dribble upto the fallen trees and using the foot place the tree back up right.

P - add more trees

R - reduces the trees

R - use foot to knock down the tree not ball / use hand to pick back up

- little touches when dribbling

- use both feet

- head up

Gorilla fruits (15 mins)

half a 5 a side pitch

Players have to steal back all the fruit from the gorilla.

This is done by dribbling to the cones picking one up and then dribbling back to their hoop and placing the fruit inside said hoop.

If the Gorilla wakes up then the players have to freeze. If the Gorilla seeing the payers cheating then he/she will wake up and steal all the fruit back.

P - make distance between hoop and cone further

P - wake up more frequently

R - reduce the distance

R - wake up less frequently