Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Lightning U8's - Recovery and Turnover, begin the attack (Start Time: 2023-06-14 16:30:00)

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Name:	Michael Smart
City:	Dunsborough
Country:	Australia
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Description

Developing recovery and turnovers to counter-attack

Rhythm start
- Yoga
- Lightning Runs
- Reaction Sprints
Skill Introduction -
- Double Rondo = 5v2
- 2 defenders working hard to recover the ball from quick positional passing
Skill Practice
- Defenders recovery and practice quick transition to attack using wide areas
Skill Game
- 3v3 zonal game, creating overloads to 2v1 into shooting zone to score
3v3 Open game
Wrap Up

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Yoga

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Learning Objectives

	Technical decision-making
	Tactical spacial awareness
	Physical alignment, balance
	Psychological breathing, determination

Yoga (5 mins)

Yoga - with welcome and focus points for today
- Shoulder rolls, Left and Right 5x each side
- Standing tall, with arms in 90deg, palms facing down, raise up the lower arm to, keeping upper arm close to body, rotate the lower arm, and lower it back down to 90deg.
- Goddess legs - left count 5, right count 5, up-down (wide squats) 5x, then hold for 30 seconds
- Raise up to standing, bring legs together

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Lightning Runs

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Learning Objectives

	Technical decision-making
	Tactical spacial awareness
	Physical speed, agility
	Psychological alignment, balance, breathing, determination
	Social awareness who runs next

Lightning Runs (5 mins)

Lightning Runs - 'zig-zag' running, light a lightning bolt
- Player A , and Player B, run clockwise in-and-out of the rest of the standing players, around the full circle,
- When Player A and Player B return back to their original spot, the players to their left (eg: C & D) start their Lightning Runs;
- Continue in groups of two, until all players have run three times.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Reaction Speed and Awareness

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Reaction Speed and Awareness (5 mins)

Sprint and Recovery

In pairs (roughly same height, and speed), hold each other's shoulders and "be on toes/ready"...
Listen for call of "Red" or "Blue" = Sprint to the corresponding cones, the winner is whoever picks up the cone

Coaching Points:

Staying alert & focused (improving game concentration)
Running technique pointers = staying low in takeoff, sprint with "negative steps"

Progressions:

Sprint to retrieve a ball (resting on the cones), and then start a 3v3 with 2 goals

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Rondo - Double 3v1

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Learning Objectives

	Technical tackling, passing, receiving, decision-making,
	Tactical spacial awareness
	Physical stamina, agility
	Psychological alignment, balance, breathing, determination
	Social communicating will to receive the ball

Rondo - Double 3v1 (10 mins)

3v1 Rondos - With 7 players. How many passes can the blues get without red touching or tackling?

The blue players pass the ball to each other in the area, they can use any part of their body, each pass is a point?
One player is in the middle of the circle attempting to touch or tackle the ball,
When the players in the middle tackle, they may attempt to shoot, or play the ball out. Rotate the players who last touched the ball and swap to the middle positions

Coaching Points:

outside players hold their positions as well as possible
Awareness of the central player's role in connecting play

Progressions:

1 ball,
to 2 balls with Left side/Ride side separation, middle player plays both trios.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Recovery & Counter

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Learning Objectives

	Technical tackling, passing, receiving, decision-making,
	Tactical defending recovery and counter attack setup, positional awareness
	Physical speed, breathing
	Psychological awareness, determination
	Social communication

Recovery & Counter (10 mins)

Recover, attempt to tackle & turn over, and begin a new attack

A passes through the manequins for B to run on to and attempt to score past 3...

1 and 2 sprint back and try to tackle B before he shoots...
If 1/2 recover the ball, they can:
- pass back to 3, then move back into their wide areas (yellow) to receive a pass from 3, and then
- run with the ball through one of the wide areas (yellow)

Progressions (add 2nd phase):
- After passing to B, A can join B in the attack,
- If 1 or 2 recover the ball, they can attack/run with the ball in the wide areas (yellow), and work with each other to try to score in one of the mini goals (counterattack) as A&B switch to recovery to attempt to stop 1&2 scoring

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 3v3 Mini match

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3v3 Mini match (5 mins)

No goalkeepers.

Mini goals.

Progressions:

2v2 in each third, pass from middle zone to end zone, that leads to goal = 2pts.
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