Appropriate Training For U-12 Players
 
Each player dribbling a ball. Players change direction on direction from coach.

Players demonstrate different ways to change direction, providing a challenge to each other.

Intermittent stops for stretching change of direction on hand signals from the coach. Play opposite.

Group of four in a rectangular grid. Imagine that the ball is a paintbrush.

Can you paint the entire floor with passes?

Then with pass restrictions. Then with two groups of four in the grid.

4 V 4 in a rectangular grid; a goal is scored by dribbling across your designated goal line.

4 V 4 in a rectangular grid; a goal is scored when you pass the ball to a teammate who is on your designated goal line.

“The Game”. 4 V 4 to goals.

 
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