Football Dribbling Skills
Football Dribbling Skills
Children will have fun learning how to dribble a football using small/light touches on the ball. They ywill also learn how to play semi-structured games.
Activity 1:
Walk Your Puppy
10 mins
Method:
Teaching Points:
Equipment:
Body Parts Game - Football Dribbling
Activity 2:
10 mins
Method:
Mark out an area to play in - enough space for your players to be able to dribble the ball around quickly in
Each player has a football
Players dribble the ball around the area using their feet
The coach calls out a body part and the children have to stop their ball and place that body part on the ball
You can make it competitive and give a point to the first player to stop it with the correct body part
Repeat
Teaching Points:
Use different parts of the feet to dribble the ball (inside, outside & bottom of foot)
Use gentle kicks/touches of the ball to keep the ball close to you as you dribble
Keep your head up as much as you can to see obstacles such as other people and their footballs
Equipment:
Markers/Cones
Footballs
Activity 3:
Stuck in the Mud
10 mins
Method:
Use your cones or markers to mark out an area big enough for your number of participants to be able to freely move around quickly with a low risk of bumping into others. Make the children aware that they need to be careful and avoid each other when moving around.
Choose a small number of the children to be the 'Taggers'. These children should wear a bib to make them clearly stand out. Try to work at around 1 tagger per 6 children. You can increase/decrease the number of taggers for difficulty.
Taggers are to try and tap players on the shoulder/back to make a tag and call tag. This mean a player is 'Stuck in the Mud'. The stuck player should freeze and stand in a star shape.
Players can free other players that are stuck back into the game by ducking under their outstretched arm to release them.
Players cannot go outside of the permitted area and should be stuck in the mud if they breach the sideline of the area.
After a minute or two, when the taggers appear tired, ask the taggers to choose a player to give their bib to and then when they've all swapped, play again. Repeat as many times as needed
Teaching Points:
Equipment:
Marker cones
Bibs
