U 8 Boys and Girls - week of June 4
Focus skill: Ball control
Great work on stations last week!
Wonderful seeing coaches arrive early to have their field set up for their practice. A reminder to set up an area and activity for players to engage in as they wait for the practice to start. Sometimes, unstructured time at the beginning of a practice can lead to a more challenging practice. One idea is to have players see how many juggles they can perform without the ball hitting the turf.
Check out this site on ball control:
Coaching points receiving:
-be in ready/athletic position so you can move in any direction
- place controlling surface (side of foot, thigh, chest ..) into line of flight of ball
-make first touch playable, either cushioning ball to keep the ball close or wedging it to move it away from you to play onto.
Warm Up: Have players start their warm up similar to last week, warming up their bodies doing different movements within the forest
area. Then have them bring a ball into the grid and challenge them to throw a ball up into the air and catch it with their hands, then to jump up and catch it, then to throw it and control it with their foot, with their thigh, with different parts of their feet (inside, outside, laces).
Remember with all of these activities to demonstrate how the skill is to be performed.
Passing and moving, super basic drill
Set up two lines of cones, passing distance apart. Pass across to opposite side, follow pass. Receive with one foot, pass with the other. Once ball gets to end dribble ball back to start of line. Get a second & third? ball going to ensure people are alert and on their toes. Just watch video for drill pattern, you will note that they are not doing a good job of receiving with one foot and passing with the other. I really want you to work on this good first touch.
Circle drill - receiving the pass. Half players on outside of circle with balls, half on inside of circle no balls. Players on inside make cuts to ball, receive a pass, control the pass and in two touches pass back to outside player, then cut and call for a new ball. Switch inside to outside and do same (or servers and non servers). Start with passes on ground with feet. Progress to short underhand tosses to feet or thigh. Finish off with players receiving ball and choosing to pass back to server or to turn and pass to another player on outside of circle. Lots of options. Key is for them to control ball with different parts of the the body and to distribute it.
Uneven Game: In a 20x20 grid split your team into an uneven number of players such as 6 vs 3.
Give the smaller number pinnies. The larger group's goal is to make 10 passes without the ball either leaving the grid or ball being won by the defenders. Pinney's goal is to win ball and make 3 passes. Losing team does 10 pushups. Switch players often. Focus on good first touch so set up for a pass and using space within the grid.
Four corners drill
Set up small grids, four people per grid. Three people on corner cones, one defender. Always fill the empty cones next to passer...so someone is always moving to be one pass away (not across the grid). They people on Offence don't need to receive exactly on corners, could be on side as everyone is moving. If Defender gets ball they switch out.
Working on passing, good first touch, triangles
Scrimmage: Small sided 4 vs 4 game focusing on first touch.
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