Scrimmage - Free play as usual, try to incorporate more of the rules into the game. Car Game - The players are the cars and the squares in each corner represent garages. The coach will say a color and the players will dribble to that square. The coach can add variations such as dribbling with a specific foot or switching balls with another player, etc. Soccer Golf Variation - Players will start at one cone and see how many tries it takes them to kick the ball into the circle and have it stop within the cones. Endzone game - Two teams will each be trying to get the most points by passing the ball to a teammate in the endzone or by dribbling in and stopping it within the square.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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