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Anyone ever coach soccer???
I'm volunteer coaching Kira's soccer team. I need suggestions for drills to do with 5 year olds.
I could also use some patience and alcohol to get through the practices.
Re: Anyone ever coach soccer???
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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Ditto the others - dribbling and passing
How often are practices? I played starting around 6 or 7 and that's what I remember. Lining up in pairs and then passing the ball back and forth for half-field; and then dribbling (which I ALWAYS sucked at)
At that age they're going to play "herd soccer" where they most likely ignore their positions and immediately herd around the ball and just start kicking. Don't get frustrated, it's a part of the game at that age.
Ditto the others, but also practice throw-ins. Many kids don't understand that throwing a soccer ball is different from throwing a baseball. Two hands, back foot on the ground, the whole drill.
DH played and coached @ camps. DD did a "camp" - an hour each day for a week. I will ask DH for drills-
one of the drills DD did was called "body ball" where the coach would call out a body part and the kids would put that body part on the ball- so knee, elbow, ear, forehead, foot, etc.
There were various drills/exercises where the coach would kick the ball around and the kids would try to steal it, and similarly where each child was dribbling/kicking the ball and they tried to get the ball to hit the coach to "catch" the coach.
A version of red light, green light.
They told us about a game played ouch. each player tries to hit the coach with the ball. the idea of 10 5/6 year olds pelting me with a soccer ball freaks me out.