Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Granite Bay 8_28

Field Set-up

There are 3 stations for the session:

Station 1: Shooting will be Chrisitan and Allie

Station 2 Passing and Receiving will be Jeremy and Rafa

Station 3: Will be small sided games and will be run by Jason

For each station there will be 2 identical setups- this way we can be sure that players are not wasting too much time standing in line. For each station both coaches should coach both grids. just bounce back and fourth

Chrisitan and Allie Part 2 (15 mins)

Organization:

Player divided into two teams as shown

Instructions:

1) Same as previous activity, excpet now after Player C takes a shot they become GK against the opposing team, adds transistion to game and also allows players to use different types of shots

Coaching Points:

1) Judging speed/ direction of ball to get into the correct position to strike with chosen surface

2) Observation of position of GK, are they recovering, can you simply pass it to the far post?

3) Ankle locked

4) Toe down

5) Ball out of feet with first touch

6) Kicking foot next to ball

7) Strike with the knuckle of your foot

8) Striking ball just off center

9) Quality of passing (receiving with correct foot)

10) Quick rotation

Progressions:

Rafa and Jeremy Part 2 (10 mins)

Organization

Three teams of four players, each set up in their own zone.

1 ball

50x20 grid, two zones of 20x20, middle zone is 10x20

Instructions:

Same as previous activity: excpet now.....

when team in middle wins the ball they must transistion to take the place of the team that lost the ball. before getting out of the middle, they have to connect a pass to the team on the outside that didnt make the mistake. The team that lost the ball must then go to the middle.

For example if white is in the middle and red makes a mistake, white must pass the ball to the yellow team, then take the place of the red team, then, red is in the middle and white and yellow are on the outside.

Coaching Points:

1. Quality of short passing, first touch, communication and movement to posses the ball

2. Quality of long pass to switch the ball.

3. Timing of long pass - Don't force it.

4. First look should be most dangerous pass, can you look past the first line of defender as the ball is switching.

Progressions/Regressions:

-Increase/decrease size of areas

P1 - 1 or 2 defenders can pressure ball in attackers zone