For my U10 girls, we worked on holding / shielding the ball. I have not emphasized this enough in the past and we really need to work on it. By having confidence they can hold the ball under pressure, they won't rush their decisions in the match. So we did some 1 v 1 keep-away and some 3 v 2 monkey in the middle before some 3 v 2 scrimmaging. It seems like a good sequence to move through, but I have to tell you the results were not stellar. We have a long way to go. But it did feel like we made progress, they had fun, and they got a good workout.
For my U6 boys, they were thrilled just to have a soccer ball at their feet and some goals to shoot at. I let them just run around for 15 minutes. Then we did some 1 v 1 keep-away. At this age, they go at it so hard, it wears them out fast and their skills can be so unequal that it can quickly turn into something that is not so fun. I'm going to have to think about this. We also tried monkey in the middle and the middle quickly became the bunch. However, after some time, I did see significant progress. They began to understand spacing. We will definitely do more of this.
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