European Football Coaching

EUROPEAN FOOTBALL COACHING

Interactive Session Plan

Coach: EFC Club: UFA Team/Program: Kinder Soccer

Topic: Dribbling/Changing Direction 21 September 2019 Time available: 1hr Activity 1 Red light, yellow light, green light. Scan the ﬁeld so you do not hit other cars. Red = Stop (foot on the ball) Yellow light very important - perfect opportunity to Yellow = Slow (dribble slowly) emphasize control and touches. Green = Go (dribble quickly) Always in control regardless PROGRESSION: Add more lights to make of light. the activity more fun and challenging. Speeding/out of control leads to crashes! I.e. Purple Light = balance on one leg.

Activity 2 Ghost Busters Scanning the ﬁeld to get away from the ghost busters. Begin with one or two "ghost busters". Changing direction to both They begin with the ball in their hands and catch the ghosts or escape they have to throw the ball against the the ghostbusters! "ghosts" who will be dribbling their soccer balls away from the ghostbusters! Emphasize change of pace and keeping control. PROGRESSION: Add more ghostbusters.

Activity 3 Cops & Robbers Changes of pace in dribbling.

Cops are in the middle and they try to Awareness.

catch the robbers. Emphasize control by telling the robbers they have top Robbers are on one line and they're trying stay in bounds to not get to get to the other side. caught.

PROGRESSION: Add more cops

Game Free Play Let the kids play.

Friendly reminder of awareness and be very encouraging and positive!