Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Dribbling skills

Dribbling (15 mins)

Session Objective: Dribbling warm up.To improve dribbling skills

Organisation:

Ball each.

Discs arranged around all of training area in lines of three , with each disc about a foot from each other.

Players begin by moving around whole area and then taking ball in and out of a group of three cones and then on to another group and so on.

Vary tasks with ball - use right foot to move through discs,left foot,right then left,sole of foot etc.

Extension - once through discs,execute turn before going through next set of discs

Extension - go through first two discs,turn and then through other side,then execute turn

Extension - go through line of discs and then perform dribbling skill before going through next set of discs (one scissor,two scissors,beardsley,move,slow,go again etc).

Key Factors:

Head up,

Ball manipulation

Technique of scissors/beardsley/dribbling trick

Experiment!!

Dribbling (15 mins)

Session Objective: To develop positive attitude to dribbling

Organisation:

Two lines of players each side of goals,no goalkeeper

1 plays to 2 who then attacks goal and has to try to dribble past 1 ,After doing so he returns to back of line he came from,

Repeat 4 to 3 ,then line 2 plays to line 1,2 to 4 and so on so every player either dribbles of defends.

Extension - start as originally 1 playing to 2 then play 2v2 so two players from each side join in.serve alternate ends.

Emphasize movement off ball by player not receiving to create options for other plater who tries to use a dribbling skill to get through

Key Factors:

POSITIVE ATTITUDE TO DRIBBLING

First Touch,Take ball at pace and attack

quality of dribble/technique/skill