Name: | Ross Langridge |
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City: | Bristol |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Membership: | Adult Member |
Sport: | Football/Soccer |
Ball Mastery session focusing on dribbling, running with the ball, turning and awareness of surroundings.
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Skills Corridor.
Set up a corridor of red cones with three yellow cones at one end, as shown.
Get the players to line up behind the yellow cones.
Players have to travel along the corridor and back along the outside.
Players may go once the player in front has travelled 5/10 yards in front.
Vary how the player travel through the corridor.
Examples:
Can you travel using as many touches of the ball as you possibly can?
Can you travel using as few touches of the ball as you can?
Can you stop/start all the way along?
Can y ou use different parts of your feet?
Coaching Points:
Can you keep your head up?
Can you use both feet?
What's the difference between dribbling and running with the ball?
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Skills Corridor.
Now ask the players to do the same, but this time travel in zig-zags. This will cause more confusion...
Coaching Points:
Can you vary the way you turn?
Which part of the foot can you use?
Players must be more aware of other players crossing their paths.
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Skills Corridor.
Now add random cones throughout the corridor.
These cones are defenders. Can you use a bit of skill to get past each defender? Drop the shoulder, step over, etc.
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Skills Corridor.
To make things even more conjested have some of the players travelling in the opposite direction.
Have players going in one direction stright lines, players in the opposite direction in zig-zags.
Coaching Points:
Can players use all the things they have just pracriced? Stop/Start, dribbling, running with the ball, turning, etc.
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Skills Corridor.
Another way to progress this paractice would be to have 4 players on the outside of the corridor working inpairs with a ball between each pair.
Can the players on the outside recognise gaps between the dribbling players to play passes to each other across the corridor?
Coaching Points:
Passing players must not force their passes.
Can the dribbling players intercept passes without losing control of their own ball?
Can the dribbling players work together to reduce the size of the gaps?
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SSG.
End the session with a SSG.
Ask the players if they can demonstrate everything they have just practiced.
Coaching Points:
Award extra goals for good examples of the practiced skills.
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Arrival Acticity (10 mins)
Arrival Activity
Set up a couple of mini pitches and as players arrive split them into teams and have them play a small sided game. Tell the players that the focus of today's session is Ball Mastery, skills, dribbling, turning, etc. Ask the players if they can demostrate any of these things during the game.
Coaching Points:
Look out for displays of skills and ball mastery. Give plenty of praise when players show their skills.