hi guys

so i help run a senior football team which is composed up of first and reserve grade. we have a junior club which ranges from SSF teams up to under 15s (under 18s finished up last year and no more teams coming through).

what us seniors have decided to do is run a free coaching clinic for the juniors. basically the juniors advertise from within that we are running a coaching clinic, and we spend a few hours with them. basically a glorified training session, and using the senior players as the teachers.

none of us pretend to have credentials, we're not working to some set curriculum, etc - we're just spending an afternoon with the juniors & hopefully developing the relationship with them.

my question is - what kind of exercises are good to run kids through as apart of a coaching clinic? we could have somewhere between 50-200 kids, and possibly 15-25 seniors there. we have a few odd exercises, small games, etc in mind, but is there any certain things you guys could help us out with for ideas?

cheers in advance

PV4

I have stuff from FFA which I am authorised to send via email, but cannot post up on here.

There are some good Positioning Games, for the second stage of a structured practice.

I have some good, basic 4v4 games, from the KNVB, which work well in a round robin.

i have a great warm up to include a lot of players, but I just cannot find it anywhere to post it.

If you Pm me, send me your email address and I'll send you the links for the Positioning Games.

http://www.bettersoccermorefun.com/dwtext/knvbgmes.htm


Try these in a round robin format.

That is 6 stations, with a different game in each.

Change over teams after about every 5 minutes, so they play another team.

This can be the third stage of the training session.


What you guys are doing is great. Peer mentoring is an excellent activity.


I'm still trying to think of a good Warm Up activity for a group of 50-200, that I can put on here.

5 min game too short youll spend all ther session setting up, how about a technique station
say passing, players in pairs 5m away from a ball on cone and they have to knock ball off cone practice right foot then left and if they get 3 in row get them to move 2m back .

as for the group warm up the only limit is the number of balls, ball per player easy
ball between 2 loads of different games , ie attacker and defender players in pairs have to keep the ball away from the other, if the other player gets the ball he has to keep the ball, play for 1 min , then player without ball has to find new partner rinse and repeat,
after a few times you will see tht most of them will run away with ball, ask what else they could do to keep the ball, shield it. not enough practice is dedicated at the younger ages to shielding the ball

PV4 look at the, "Structuring a Training Session," somewhere around this thread.

In Stage 1 Warm Ups, look at the European Academy Sessions at the top of the Performance page. It is a sticky, started by Dirk Van Adidas.

The Arsenal, Dutch Ajax and Chelsea academies are the best I've seen.

We did have a Coerver page on here, with Skill Drills. I think it has disappeared, but I am trying to think of how any of us can pass on a good Warm Up exercise for your players, with a useful diagram.

I'll get back to this to add to Dirk's suggestion in the previous post.

In KNVB they emphasise working on something to improve a team weakness. The FFA NC suggests that this should include movement. There is some value in this.




Stage 2, Positioning Games, try the Dutch Ajax first drill from Dirk's European Academy sessions above.

Another beauty is Arsenal Player in the Soup, drill 2, the 4v1, or 5v2. They are brilliant for one and two touch, the same as the Dutch Ajax drill.


Then, in the first attachment I sent you in the email, look at the:

3v1

4v2

5v3 or 2 rondos,

from our state FFA Technical Director's training ground material for coaches.


These are all superb. At least I can pass on decent diagrams too.





Stage 3 Game Training

se the KNVB 4v4 Small Sided Games in the link listed above.

The objective is to use this as a an exercise for players to enjoy at your session. Don't worry about coaching too much.


Having said that, I've done a lot of this stuff and the judgement we've made has usually worked well, but 5 minutes per game could be too short as Dirk suggests.



If any of your coaches are in Hobart in before your session, PM me and they can observe a session I take. I'll deliberately do some Warm Ups, suitable for your clinic.

PV4


The Warm Up or Passing practice exercises a I have sent to you and all other 442 members who have wanted them, are very average, only because of the inactivity of too many players. There are too many inactive players for my liking.

I've seen the state TD, the state FFA SAP trainer and Norm Boardman do much better ones than these. I wish I had a diagram for them. Everton Academy also did one of them when a mate visited a few years ago.

I'll keep looking.

There is always Directional Control, but players don't love it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om1iQUZ-pfg&feature=related

This is isolated technique, but al coaches who have used it find it excellent. Initially try two players about 2 metres apart doing the same as Tito Vilanova instructs in the video.

I just cannot find a good dribbling video ATM for a Warm Up.







Edited by Decentric: 26/2/2013 11:01:15 PM

For the forst stage, I have some beauties.

The state FFA Skills Acquisition trainer has given these a big tick, as long as, one uses them appropriately with when and how.



Try these from Dirk Van Adidas' European Academy Sessions, one of the stickes at the top of the page. I think it is easily the best resource for training ground exercises I've seen on the internet. Many coaches have been thrilled to access this resource. Give Dirk some credit, he has assisted a lot of coaches around Australia.=d>


You won't be ablt to fit them all in during one session, but they are great. I've also found a version of an excellent drill used in the SAP.



Visit Chelsea Aacdemy, which is about 5th down from the top. Click on the first Chelsea Academy, not the second.



The excellent Warm Up I've seen Norm Boardman, the state FFA TD, the state FFA SAP trainer and Everton Academy use, is the drill about 10th down called:

Turning Into Space.

This is great for ball carrying, turning and receiving with furthest foot and passing. I've had kids of age 9 up to adults aged 45 enjoy this. It is a great coaching tool.




Cores

This is a good one for dribbling techniques, if you know the explicit instruction.





Dribbling and Running With The Ball.

Great drill. If a player is waiting at the edge of the grid, make them do stationery techniques whilst waiting with the ball.






ABC finishing Drill

This is a ripper for shooting, if, you make players dribble around the outside of the pitch to get back to the next station. Really good for fitness too.




Edited by Decentric: 26/2/2013 11:23:28 PM

Also from Chelsea Academy i from Acedemy sessions is:



Lose The Defender

To extend this superb exercise, when players get older, take the line away and have players dribbling towards each other. The defensive player, jockeys and delays, slowly moving backwards. The attacker uses an array of 1v1 moves to wrong foot the defender, moving forwards.

For 1v1s look at the Compilation of Dribbling moves by great players. There are some evasion techniques demonstrated step by step in there somewhere.