Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Tuesday 3/26 - Fitness, Main Activity, Con'd Game

Take over (20 mins)

Organization: 3 different colored cones. In this case green: Defending line, Red/blue: Attacking lines. You will need one goalie and set it up just ouside the 18 yard box (where the move generally occurs)

Instructions:

- Players at the red cone start with the ball

- On their first touch they dribble directly across towards the blue cone line, the defender rushes from behind

- On the red cones first touch the first player at the blue cone sprints across towards the red cone and around the dribbler to either take over the ball or leave it for the dribbler

- Rotate (Green to Red, Red to Blue, Blue to Green)

- Defender can score a point by getting it into the mini goal

Coaching Points:

-Dribble with the ball on the outside of your body (opposide side of defender/near side to your teammate)

-As the dribbler read the position of the defender (lay it off or fake it and take it yourself?)

-As the person doing the take over do not hesitate whether you get the ball or not, if you hesitate for a second the defender will know what is going on.

-Communicate the plan early.

Progressions:

switch sides of the defenders approach (Green cone to purple, I just have the players move the green cone over) and direction of take over (instead of red starting off, have blue line start.

- If you do a take over, you have 2/3 touches to finish.