1/19 Training- Enjoy Having The Ball

Farrow is also thinking about how young athletes can develop field sense before their coaches make them believe it's impossible to acquire. To figure that out, he recently began interviewing elite players about their early life in sports. One factor is backyard games, or what Farrow calls unstructured play. Playing soccer with 30 other kids in a dusty village plot turns out to foster the kind of flexible thinking and acute spatial attention that pays off in high-level competition.
By Jennifer Kahn in Wayne Gretzky-Style 'Field Sense' May Be Teachable

0-10 Tennis Ball Work
Today I had the girls jog around and play catch.  No standing still and throwing.  Everything was on the move.

10-20 Footskills Routine
We added our 3rd portion of the routine today.  It is amazing how much better they look going into their third week of the routine.  Their rhythm and touches are so much cleaner than when we started.

20-50 7v3+7v3 Transition/Possession Game

The same exercise as last Saturday.  Today I really wanted to focus on
Focus Points:
-The players on the far side of the grid need to always be thinking about how to get the ball.
-When receiving a pass from a teammate, angle your hips in a different direction so you can play the way you face while not playing right back where the ball came from.
-Move consistently in the same spots.  Players should consitently be in the same area of the field so their teammates know where to find them, but you always need to be moving to create the right angle for the pass.

50-65 Mixed Up Colors Scrimmage
I divide the teams into two different colors for the end scrimmage, but for this scrimmage I mix up all the teams and the colors so you have people with both colors on your team.  This game helps to work on their vision and making a mental map of the game in their head.

65-75 Scrimmage