Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): U12 Positional awareness (depth) (Start Time: 16-May-2019 17:15h)

World Cup (20 mins)

World Cup

30 by 30 yard area

8 players and 1 GK (Coach) - 4 teams of 2 or 3 teams of 2 if needed. If you have an extra player you can have 3 players on a team but try to avoid if possible.

Organization:

1. Players join together in pairs of two and play world cup on coach's command.

2. Teams must choose a country as their team name.

3. Coach throws out a ball and teams must try to score first to make it to the next round. As they shoot, they must yell out their country's name.

4. If you score, you stand behind the goal and advance to the next round. If you are the last team left you are knocked out of the world cup and must sit behind the goal.

5. Play again next round until their are two teams playing in the last round and you'll have the World Cup final. In the final teams play to two goals. First to score two wins the World Cup!!

6. Each round, the last team left that did not score is eliminated.

Coaching Points:

-finishing-specific technique

-head up

-work as a team

-have fun

Visual Cues:

-distance to goal

-awareness of space to get shot off

Free Play: (30 mins)

Instructions:

5v5 free play (depends on the players' availability) 

2 goals for counter attacking goal.

Coaching Points/Questions:

1- Reinforce all the above.