Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): U12 Possession (receiving) (1.5h)

Touches With Intererence (15 mins)

Organization:

- 2-3 Tag Players (blue)

- Ball each for every other player

Instructions:

- Players with the ball must circle a cone without being tagged.

- If they are tagged they must be freed by another player passing through their legs.

- The tagging team will get 30 seconds to get as many tags as they can

Coaching Points:

- What surfaces of the foot do you use?

- Can players look for new spaces to move into?

- Are players able to use a change of direction to avoid being tagged

Progressions/Regressions:

Possession (play out of pressure/winning ball back) (20 mins)

Organization:

One big box (40x40ish) and one smaller box (15x15ish) inside the big box. 3v2 in the small box (4 red players) and 2 blue players outside the small box.

Instructions:

Red team is keeping possession in the small box for as long as possible. When the blue team wins the ball, their goal is to play the other blue players outside the small box. The game is now played in the big box where the blue team is keeping possession as long as possible. When ball goes out of bounce or the red team wins the ball back, the game starts over in the small box.

Coaching Points:

- movement off the ball to find areas to receive the ball

- winning the ball back as soon as possible when lost (red team)

- play out of pressure when ball is won (blue team)

Progressions/Regressions:

P and R- change size of space and number of players