Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Survivor Island

Survivor

Survivor Island

Set up:

40x 40 yard area or greater depending on the age. Four goals, one on each side of the grid. Team broken up into 4 teams.

Instructions:

Team broken up into 4 teams that are working to score in any of the other three goals while defending their own (No keepers). Each team creates a tribe name based on their most important character virtue. When a team has been scored upon a certain number of times they are eliminated from the game. Their are various challenges scattered throughout the game to win rewards/advantages. Teams eliminated can compete in reward challenges and have one goal taken out if they win the challenge and earn their team back on the island. Teams may create alliances with other teams.

Challenges: team member may not compete in individual back to back challenges.

Juggle challenge (individual or group)

Head relay (one line leader who tosses ball to first in line, head back and run to back of line as leader tries to head to 2nd in line, etc.)

Wheel barrow races.

Relay race with field lines.

Skills challenges (difficult turns, juggling patternss - foot - thigh - shoulder - head - shoulder - thigh - foot - catch.

Indian leg wrestling

Shooting challenges on big goal.

Rewards:

Take a goal out of own goal.

Add a ball to another team's goal.

Send player to exile island (standing on goalline on one foot) for 2 mintues while their team plays down.

Take a player for set period of time.

Golden goal - first to score during this time period gets 3 goals.

Coaching Points:

Fun! Decision making, problem solving, technical, awareness.