Authors: Ralf Peter, Gerd Bode
Duration: about 94 minutes
 

Modern Youth Training Part 3

Playing and Practicing with Eight to Twelve-Year-Olds

Building blocks for training sessions

- General movement training

- Soccer oriented movement training

- Soccer specific technique training

Learning basic techniques

- Dribbling, faking, passing and receiving, shooting and heading

Dribbling games

- Exercises to improve dribbling skill

- Changing directions while dribbling 

- Slalom dribbling and shooting 

- Creating a session on dribbling

Tips on organizing a session

- Using a single setup for multiple exercises 

- Line exercises and rotations 

- Competitions for two teams playing simultaneously

- Station training 

- Simple soccer games in a 3 v 3 setting