Practice 10 - Faking, Scissors....

We had to practice indoors because of the weather. The practice was only for 1 hour. I had 8 players. I wanted to show the girls a couple of fake moves in this practice.

The moves I chose to teach were the scissors and the lunge step. Each Coach may call these differently.

The scissors -  is where the player is dribbling the ball and they bring their foot on the inside of the soccer ball (anti-clockwise) doing a full 360 around the ball. After doing this they then move the ball with the outside of their other foot. This is done in a quick motion. I told the players to do it slowly first, then when they get more confident, do it quicker. The ball must be moving.

The lunge step – The player is dribbling the ball. When they get at a distance of when they think they should do the fake, they take a big step to the left and then move the ball to the right with the outside of their right foot. Do the same for the left side.

Warm up - 20 min

I had a number of discs. I used 2 colors and spread them out over 30 x 20 area. The players started dribbling their ball, each time moving towards a disc. When they got to the disc they performed one of the fake moves.

After performing a fake at the disc, they must then move to a disc of different color. And so on. I also acted as a defender and asked the girls to perform the trick around me.

Focus On:

Timing

Technique

Accelerate away

Close ball control

Be realistic

Variation:

I now acted as a defender. I had the players stood 25 yards from goal. They performed the fake around me and then they shot at the goal. I put in two Cones one yard in from each post and told the girls to aim for the cones. I kept on swapping out the GK.

I made up two 20 x 20 area’s with a 10 yard area that separated the two areas.

Make two teams of 4 and put them in separate 20 x 20 areas. Each player has a ball. Each team player is given a number 1 – 4. The coach assigns a team to be taggers.

·        The girls dribble in their area performing the fakes that we did in the warm ups.

·        The coach, who is standing in the middle zone calls out a number.

·        That player dribbles to the next area and attempt to tag the girl with the same number. She must perform the fake around the coach before entering the opposite area. She has 20 seconds to try and tag the player from the other group. 

Focus on:

Fakes

Scanning the field to look for the player you are chasing / running from

Ball control

Speed

Fun 

Variation:

Switch numbers of players

Switch chasing team

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