Saturday 11th May training octonauts and nominated strikers

Warm Up
Just a quick jog to get hearts pumping

Sound The OctoAlert (this will be good if it’s raining)
All kids have a football and start off dribbling normally. Coaches are spread out to help and encourage.
There are 4 numbers and corresponding actions they have to remember:
Number 1 = “Octonauts - through the tunnel” (kids have to pass the ball through nearest coaches legs and hi-five on the way through)
Number 2 = “Octonauts - switch balls” (kids have to leave their ball and go and find another. Chaos!)
Number 3 = “Octonauts - drag-back”. Change direction by putting studs on ball and dragging back to go in the opposite direction (Mario thought I was joking)
Number 4 = “Octonauts – to the HQ” and they have to score in any of the goals and then race back to the parents for a drink.

I think it will be carnage but loads of fun!!!! J

Shooting and Keeping
We’ve not done penalties for a while so I want to slot this in before matches.
Split all players into four groups
Anyone who enjoyed the keeper coaching last week can go in goal. Rory can pick the best four volunteers as keepers
Quite wide goals as I’d like to encourage penalty takers to hit the corners and keepers to predict and dive
Literally one after the other, taking penalties. I’d really like coaches to constructively tell kids what they could have done better.
More power, foot over the ball, shoot with laces, hit the corners, EYE ON THE BALL, longer run up, foot through the ball etc

Matches
One major difference this week. Whichever coach is overseeing the match will, at the start of the match and after each goal, tell the other members of each team who they have to set up for a goal. If anyone else scores it doesn’t count, the sole objective is to set the nominated player up.

Saturday 4th May Session 2 West Wycombe

Started with traffic lights with yellow as using outside of the foot.

4 pitches laid out with gaps between.  3 on 3 session where we called out different numbers to get different players competing for the ball.

Goalie breakout session.  12 children in groups of 4 with 3 coaches.  Started off just throwing the ball  and asked children to get hands behind the ball.  Second part was similar but children had to dive on the ball after they saved it.

Matches at end were 4 on 4.