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Tue Sep 15 · 90 minutes · 12 to 16 players

G6 U12 girls. 90 minutes on position and triangles

Stay in your lane. Pass in triangles. Move to receive. 68 of 90 minutes. Size 4. 1-3-2-3. No heading.

Three rules. Make them say these back. Stay on your side. You may go up and down it. You may not run across it. Always give two passing angles. Go get a new patch of grass before the ball gets there.

Live rule from minute 7. If the receiver’s feet do not move, the pass does not count. Play it again.

Clock

Before they arrive

Staff onlyGet the grids down. No player talk yet.

Set one 20x20 warm-up grid, two 12-yard triangles, one 12x12 rondo with 3-yard end zones, then a 25x20 three-lane rectangle. 16 balls, 30 cones, two pinnie colors plus 3 extra for jokers, 4 mini-goals. No heading.

0 to 14. Warm-up, stretch, picture

0:00 arrivalBall at your feet. Head up. If someone is close to you, find a new patch of grass.

Every player has a ball in the 20x20. Jog, boxes, inside-outside taps. Head up. If two players collide, the grid is too small. Spread.

3:00 dynamicStay in your line. Do not drift into her lane.

Dynamic line down and back. Skip, open the gate, close the gate, walking lunge, karaoke. Ball at the feet on the way back. No static hold yet.

7:00 first trianglesPass, then go to the empty corner. If you are standing still, we are not passing to you. Two steps, then show me your feet.

Groups of 3, unopposed. Pass and move to the empty point of the triangle. Two-touch. If the receiver’s feet do not move, the pass does not count.

10:00 stretchThree rules today. Stay on your side. Always two angles. Go get a new patch of grass before the ball gets there.

Stretch circle. 20 seconds each. Calves, quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, groin, light shoulder. No bouncing. Talk the three rules while they stretch.

12:00 pictureThis is your side of the field. You may go up and down it. You may not run across it. When the ball is over there, you stay here and show.

Walk to the 9v9 half. Cones already mark left, center, and right. When the ball is on the left, the right player stays high and wide so a triangle still exists. Then water.

The lane is hers. The new grass is still inside that lane. Standing at her toes does not count.

14 to 28. Ajax triangles

One-touch triangle. Pass to feet, set, then play into space. Two-touch is legal if the ball would die. If she stands on the cone, she is not open.

14:00 Ajax setupCorners are homes. You live there. You still have to step off the cone to receive.

Two triangles, 12 yards a side. Four players per triangle. Three occupy corners. The fourth starts behind the ball. Spare balls at each corner. Coach stands outside, not in the middle.

Corners are homes. Step off the cone, show your feet, then go back.

15:00 do not chaseDo not chase her ball. Stay home. When it is your turn, take two steps off the cone and show your feet.

A passes to B’s far foot. A stays at her corner until the set is played. Do not chase the ball into B’s space.

18:00 patternSet to her feet. Play the next one in front of her so she has to run onto it. If she is standing still, play it past her so she has to move.

A passes to B and steps. B sets first time. A plays into the space in front of B. B plays to C’s feet. Extra player D fills A’s empty corner. Pass to feet on the set. Pass to space on the angled ball.

22:00 checkCheck away. Then come back and show. Two steps out, two steps in. If your feet do not move, the pass is dead.

C takes two steps away from the ball, then comes back to show. Time it with B’s set. If C stands still, a defender would eat the pass.

25:00 reverseOther foot now. Same rule. No standing receives.

Reverse the direction so the other foot works. Freeze once if the extra player is ball-watching instead of filling a corner. Water at 28:00.

30 to 48. Barca 4v2

Occupy a side. Open your body. Find the free player. Possession without a target is not the drill.

30:00 rondo sidesThis is your side of the square. Do not follow the ball to her side. On your side, keep moving so I can see your feet.

12x12 square. Four players occupy the four sides, not the corners. Two defenders inside. Remaining players rest 90 seconds, then swap. If you follow the ball to a teammate’s side, you leave a hole.

32:00 open bodyOpen your hips. I want to see both neighbors. Back foot. If a defender is on you, take two steps and show again.

Receive on the back foot with hips open so you can see both neighbors. Freeze a closed hip once. Ask what she can see.

36:00 third girlYou are the third girl. Do not wait. Start moving before she even sets it. If you stand, you are not the third girl.

A cannot play C because a defender sits in the lane. A plays B. C is already moving to the free side. B lays it off first time. Praise the movement, not only the completed pass.

42:00 end zoneThree passes, then play it into the end zone. Move first, then call for it.

After three passes, play into the far 3-yard end zone. That stops keep-away for its own sake. Switch the ball to bait the two defenders, then find the free side.

46:00 rotationIf you lose it, you go in. No talking. Next ball.

Two-touch. Whoever loses it goes in immediately. Resting pair replace the tired chasers every 90 seconds. Water at 48:00 while you cone three lanes for the next game.

50 to 68. City lanes

Play your position. The ball comes to your lane. It does not come to your toes. 4v4 plus 3 jokers in three lanes. Not City’s 4-3-1.

50:00 lanesThis lane is yours. Up and down only. Get open in your lane. Do not visit her lane.

25x20 rectangle split into left, center, right. 4v4 plus 3 jokers. Jokers wear the third color. One joker on each end line, one in the middle. Possession team plus jokers is 7v4.

52:00 City linePlay your position. The ball comes to your lane. It does not come to your toes. Go get a new patch of grass in your lane.

If the ball is on the left, the right player stays in the right lane, high enough to receive a switch. If she sprints across to the ball, freeze and send her back.

TriangleGive her two girls to pass to. If you are hiding behind your teammate, you are in her shadow. Move.

Ball-carrier plus one support short plus one support wide or high. If two teammates stand in the same shadow, one must move.

58:00 free playerFind the girl in the middle. Then find the one who is already moving. We do not pass to statues.

Find the central joker, then the third man. Eight passes is one point. A pass into an end joker after a line break is two points.

64:00 turnoverYou won it. Three passes, go forward. If you lost it, get back in your lane. Do not swarm.

If the defending four win it, they have three passes to play forward to an end joker. Water at 68:00. Mark the 9v9 lanes during the drink.

70 to 88. 9v9

9v9 shape. Two angles means a triangle, not a straight line.

70:00 9v9Same three rules. Your side. Two angles. Move to receive.

Play 8v8 plus GKs, or 7v7 plus GKs if numbers are short. Three vertical lanes stay coned. Offside from halfway if you have referees. No heading.

ScoringGoal is two if three different girls touch it. A standing touch is not the one we want.

Normal goal is 1. Goal is 2 if three different players touch the ball in the attacking half before the shot.

Weak sideBall is on the left. Right side, stay. Take two steps into the open grass and show. You are the switch.

Weak-side winger stays high and wide when the ball is on the other side. If she tucks in to watch, the triangle dies.

One freezeFreeze. Who is standing? Who has empty grass in front of her? Go there.

Freeze once. Show the empty lane or the stacked shadow. Then play. More than one freeze kills the 18 minutes.

88 to 90. Close

88:00 walkWalk. Hamstring. Quad. Quiet.

Walk the length of the grid. Hamstring and quad stretch, 20 seconds each side. No lecture during the stretch.

89:30Three things. Stay on your side. Two angles. Move into the open grass to receive.

That is the whole session.

Water at 28, 48, and 68. Build the next grid while they drink.