Don't lose your ball by Uli Forte | Soccer Coaching Drills

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Activity Flow:
1. Every ball needs a player and has the task to dribble around in the playing field
2. Player can attack each other but must be careful and watch out for their own ball
3. If they can manage to kick a ball out and keep the own ball at the time, they eliminate a player
4. A player who lost his ball must leave the playing area and wait for the next round
5. Competition - There is only one winner at the end
6. You can make a competition over a certain time period - every win = one point (Who collected the most points after a certain time?)
Organization:
1. Set up a playing field 20x20m
2. Every player needs one ball
Coaching Points:
1. Dribbling
Control - Always maintaining control of the ball recognising when to keep ball close to body and when to move ball further away to attack the space
Awareness / Orientation - Keep eyes on the ball as much as needed but off the ball as much as possible to assess where the space is
Changes of Speed -Slow to quick or quick to slow look to adjust speed of body and ball to escape defenders and maximise space available
Changes of Direction - Right to left, left to right, back to forward, forward to back look to change direction of body and ball to escape defenders and maximise space available
Creativity - Encourage players to improvise to find solutions to escape opponents
Variations:
1. Rule - You can't eliminate a player, when you lost your ball (important when you play 1 on 1 at the end)