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Interactive Session Plan ™

Coach PSC Coaches Handbook Session date 2016-2017 Season Team/Age Group PSC Intramural

PSC Intramural Coaches Handbook Session Plan Time available
Theme Improve Ball Mastery & Technical Dribbling Skills
PSC 'Striker' / 'Interleague' / '135' Divisions. 60 Minutes
NOTES
Activity 1 - Dribbling - Ball Mastery - Warm-Up.
(Area = 30x20. Adjust based on team/numbers) *20 Minute Activity*
Ball Mastery - Ask players show different ways to move the ball in the area using multiple surfaces of both
feet.
Coaches `Challenges' - Call Isolated Skill such as Toe-Taps / Inside-Inside Touches etc and players have 10
Click to insert session diagram seconds to perform the skill. Minute to Win It…how many touches in 60 seconds and variations.
Physical Literacy - Call out body part and players have to stop ball and put that body part on the ball. `Call
out way to move - sidesteps or backwards - and players move around area without ball for 10 seconds
Copy Coach - Introduce skills `move' with the ball and coach like `Simon Says' so players copy coach
movements then have time challenge to perform the move every 3 touches.
Incorporate Juggling Challenges - Bounce Juggle / A-Z / Set Your PB
Coaching Points:
Technical Ability (Dribbling) -> Control & Distance of Ball / Head-Up & Awareness
Activity 2 - Dribbling Gates
(Area = 30x20. Adjust based on team/numbers) *10-20 Minute Activity*
Challenge # 1 - Players have ball each and have time limit to dribble ball through colored gates on the field…
score points for each gate…multiple rounds and challenge players to beat their score.
Challenge # 2 - Players have to perform a `move of the day' before they can go to a new gate and/or color
code challenge (only blue gates or blue gate then yellow gate etc)
Challenge # 3 - Coach bonus round where coach holds up a colored cone and players have 3 seconds to
Click to insert session diagram dribble through that gate for a bonus and/or coach calls out sequence of gates
Challenge # 4 - Introduce `defender' who can try knock ball out for player to retrieve before scoring again
Coaching Points:
Technical Ability (Dribbling) -> Awareness & Ball Control. Where Do You Go Next? How Can You Get The Ball
There?

Activity 3 - Catchers Game
(Area = 30x20. Adjust based on team/numbers) *10-20 Minute Activity*
Challenge # 1 - Coach(es) become catchers (defenders) wo try to win possession from attackers who try to
retain the ball…any player `caught' has to perform isolated skill (3 juggles etc) to get back in the game
Challenge # 2 - As before with players able to `freeze' catcher(s) if they perform `move of the day' and make
good decision on when to do it
Challenge # 3 - As before with players as the catcher(s) and rotate so all players have turns
Click to insert session diagram Challenge # 4 - As before and adjust size of space and/or number of catchers to increase `pressure' on the
attackers
Coaching Points:
Technical Ability (Dribbling) -> Awareness & Ball Control. Decision Making. How Can You Keep The Ball Away
From Catchers?

Activity 4 - Match Condition - Small-Sided Games

(Area = 30x20. Adjust based on team/numbers) *20 Minute Activity*
Set-Up - Split players into teams with pinnies

Small-Sided Games (Recommend 4v4) - Option for multiple teams to rotate or multiple games
Game Option # 1 - Numbers Game where coach assigns players a number and calls numbers who play (1&2
play 1&2 etc)
Click to insert session diagram Game Option # 2 - Bonus Goal for any players who can perform a `move of the day' in the match making good
decision when to do it
Game Option # 3 - Bonus Goal for any players who can perform a dribbling `skill' in the match and show
control of the ball as they do it
Game Option # 4 - Let Them Play!
Coaching Points:
Technical Ability (Dribbling) - Running Commentary of the Game. Be Positive. Can You Show Me?

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