Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Technical Warm-Up

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Raz Ali

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Raz Ali
Name: Raz Ali
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer

Description

Choose either the Technical 'Circle' or Technical 'Large area', and mix them up from week to week

The circle promotes close control, ball should be next to their foot and is a lot slower

The large area is focused on sprinting with the ball and performing the skills at speed


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical Circle

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical Circle
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Technical Circle

Set up
  • Create a circle, and try to remember its size - the idea is to gradually reduce the size over time
  • Adjust size in small steps
  • Players must not touch anyone else's football, or let their football touch another ball

Time

  • 5 minutes max
  • Keep it short - 15 seconds of each skill on rotation, work with 4 core skills and 2 'guest' skills at a time
  • N.B: Time-pressure and target-driven are key concepts to remember! 
Core skills - EVERY WEEK, EVERY ABILITY GROUP 
  • Right foot only
  • Left foot only
  • Penguin Feet
  • Only use the sole

Guest skills

  • Check out the webpage for the 2 'guest' skills to focus on
  • N.B. I will be sending these to the parents so please try a stick to them!
  • N.B. They are designed to be difficult, but we'll work on them over a long period of time :)
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OPTIONAL Progressions / Games
  • 'Call out a colour' - players run around the colour and back in the centre
  • 'Call out two colours' - players run around the colour and back in the centre
  • 'Reverse' - players run around the colours in the opposite order
  • 'Outside' - run around the outside of the circle
  • King of the Ring / Last man standing - everyone tries to kick out each other's ball; last person to keep their ball in the circle is the winner
  • Hold up different coloured bibs - last person to spot them and call out the colour loses a life or forfeit (examples below)

Scoring

  • Last person to complete the challenge has to do a forfeit or lose a life to rejoin (3 lives each player?)
  • Create mini-teams - losing team has a forfeit
Forfeits examples(Get creative, the list is endless! What ideas can you think of? Pick one, and mix it up each time)
  • 20 sole taps
  • 1 rapid dribble around the outside
  • 10 star jumps
  • 20 stepovers
  • 5 keepy uppies
  • Run around the coach / goal
  • Touch a goalpost
  • Sing a song :)

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical - large area

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical - large area
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Technical - large area

Set up

  • Use as much space as possible, the focus is on performing the skills at speed
  • Players must not touch anyone else's football, or let their football touch another ball - use forfeits (see examples below)

Time

  • 5 minutes max
  • Work on 2 or 3 guest skills each week - give each a number
  • Call out the numbers, and mix up the order
  • Get progressively more quickly
  • Also remember to incorporate the core skills below
Core skills - EVERY WEEK, EVERY ABILITY GROUP
  • Right foot only
  • Left foot only
  • Penguin Feet
  • Only use the sole

Guest skills

  • Check out the webpage for the 2 'guest' skills to focus on
  • N.B. I will be sending these to the parents so please try a stick to them!
  • N.B. They are designed to be difficult, but we'll work on them over a long period of time :)
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Forfeits examples(Get creative, the list is endless! What ideas can you think of? Pick one, and mix it up each time)
  • 20 sole taps
  • 1 rapid dribble around the outside
  • 10 star jumps
  • 20 stepovers
  • 5 keepy uppies
  • Run around the coach / goal
  • Touch a goalpost
  • High-five / blow a raspberry at a parent
  • Sing a song :)

Animation Controls (PCs, Macs, Laptops):

Play animation
Play step-by-step
Repeat (toggle)
Full Screen
Pause
Stop

Back/Forward: Drag timeline button