Activity 1 (10 min): Triangle Gates
Activity 2 (15 min): Bandits! Bandits!
Activity 3 (15 min): Pac Man
Activity 4 (15 min): Small-Sided Games 4v4
Activity 1 (10 min): Triangle Gates
Setup: Area of game field. All players start with a soccer ball. Scatter 5 to 7 triangle gates around playing
area (three cones about 1 yard apart).
Instructions: Players will go thru gates and count how many they can get. Play 2 rounds. Can they beat there last score? After 2 rounds, all players get their soccer ball.
1. Play again, this time with all players dribbling their soccer ball. Play several rounds.
2. Play again, this time players will dribble up to gate, but do a pullback (foot on top of ball, pull ball back behind you and turn with ball and dribble in opposite direction). How many gates can you get.
Water Break (2-3 min)
Activity 2 (15 min): Bandits! Bandits!
Setup: Area of game field. All players start with their soccer ball.
Instructions: Coach select 1 or 2 players to be the Bandits. Bandits try to steal soccer balls from other players. Once a bandit get a ball, the player without a ball become a bandit. Play continues. Play several rounds of 2 minute games.
1. Now a bandit must take the soccer ball to his hideout (small goal). The dribbler can try to steal it back before it reaches hideout. Once in hideout, the ball stays there and player joins the bandits. Bandits then go after more balls.
Coaching points: Players should avoid bandits by controlling the ball and not letting it get stolen.
Water Break (2-3 min)
Activity 3 (15 min): Pac Man
Setup: Within game field. Pac Men start with their soccer ball. Ghosts do not. Scatter lots of cones around playing area.
Instructions: Coach selects 2 players to be Ghosts. All other players are Pac Men. Ghosts are trying to tag and freeze a Pac Man. You cannot be unfrozen. All Pac Man players must dribble their ball and pick up all the cones before all players have been frozen. If all cones are picked up…Pac Man wins! If all Pac Men are frozen….Ghosts win! Play several rounds. Change ghosts each time. Coaches can also be Ghosts if needed.
Coaching points: Pac Men should keep their ball close. They cannot leave ball to pick up cones or avoid a ghost. Control ball while dribbling.
Water Break (2-3 min)
Activity 4 (15 min): Small Sided Games 4v4
Setup: Entire soccer field, divide players up to form teams of 4.
Instructions: Coach tells players which direction the are going and which goal they are trying to score on. Play 4v4 soccer. No goal keepers, not throw-ins, no keeping score. Keep the ball in play with quick restarts. Minimize instruction to players but always give lots of praise for good attempts to dribble and control the ball.
Coaching Points: Let the kids PLAY and have FUN!