Physical Fitness for Life

Don’t spend too much time on drills as they need to play for at least 20-30 minutes. 

Warm up – have your group run to a location of your choice, then stretch, take roll. 

Goal for Session 2 - Awareness and Passing

Skill development 

A. Awareness: 

Drill 1: Make two lines across from each other (pairing up the students) put a soccer ball on the ground in-between the pairs. Explain the rules - if you call out shoulder they put their hands on their shoulders, if you call out ears, they put their hands on their ears, if you call out feet, they touch their feet - when you call out ball, the first one to grab the ball from the ground wins the match. Do this several times calling out different body parts. 

THE OLDER GROUP (5-12th) WILL THEN DO THE SAME DRILL USING ONLY THEIR FEET. 

B. Passing: Show them the proper position for passing – holding leg and foot like a golf club or hockey stick.

Drill 2: For the older groups – put into groups of 2-4 students and have them pass the ball back and forth to each other. Younger groups K-2nd – pair up and have them pass back and forth. Have them line up in front of one another, put out flat discs so they can stand by  them. 

Drill 3: OLDER GROUPS 5 - 12th grades only: Have your field ready for soccer. Divide the students up and place each team along side of the goal - kick out a ball and the first two in each group pass back and forth to each other as they race down the field to the opposite goal. Using inside of the foot. 10-15 minutes 

Drill 3: YOUNGER GROUPS K-4th or Level 1s - SQUARE BOX GAME (OR  GUPPIES AND SHARKS). You can take the balls from the other coaches to 

Set up two areas (using 4 cones each) and make a square. All the balls are put in front of the squares. Divide the team into 2 groups. The students will stand within the boundary of the cones. When you blow your whistle- they will run out and dribble with their feet and put the balls into their squares. The ones with the most balls in the end wins the game. Variations - one group can be the "guppies" the other "sharks". The guppies try and put the balls into one square while the sharks kick them out. You can also have one a goalie from each team stand in the opposite square. Lastly, you can make one ball special and let it be 5 points. 

Play a game 

Soccer Skill Games for PreK Groups 

(parents stay near and help out with their child) 

Coaches, these are some fun games that can be played with the small group of PreK-Ks (if you don’t have enough students to play a game of soccer.)

1. Steal the ball from the coach - you dribble the ball around in a circle of  cones, the little ones can try and steal (feet only) it from you and take it  outside of the cone area. Variation: Put two students in a circle at a time and let them try and take it from each other.

2. Red light green light.

3. Follow the leader - pick one of the students and have them dribble around and let the rest of the group follow them around the area you designate.

4. Kick Bowling - set up a triangle of cones 4 cones, each cone is worth a  point. Then set up an area with a cone (about 5 feet away - you judge) and let them see if they can knock the cones down. They can take turns counting their points. You can designate one cone to be worth 5 points.

5. Numbers game - give each kid a number and throw out a ball - they dribble it back and see which ones make the goal.

6. Goalie - pick one student as the goalie - let a student dribble up to a  certain point designated by cones, and try to kick a goal. Then that student  takes the goalie’s place and the goalie gets in line with the other students.

7. Guppies and sharks - Make a large square with 4 cones and divide the group. Put all of the balls in the outer area. Guppies in the square the sharks out with all of the balls. Shark’s job is not to let the guppies get the balls into the square - this is a time game - give it about 2 minutes, then switch the groups.

8. Square box game - just like guppies and sharks, except you have divided  the group into two - each team in a square. All balls out in the field in front of them.

9. Ball scramble - all balls are out in the field - blow whistle and they  dribble them back to you. They keep going back out to the field until all the balls are with you or a certain area you designate.

10. Obstacle course - set up cones and discs - make a course that they  have to dribble through.

11. Mimic - put two kids in front of each other with a ball in the center. Call out a body part, i.e., head (they put their hands on their heads) then say ball, and they try to reach down and grab it. You can call as many body parts as you like.