3/2 Half Field By Surprise: Final Training Before The Games Begin

The U15 Grey team usually trains on the other side of our 1/2 of the field when we are at 5pm on Monday's, but since they were down in Texas playing we had the entire 1/2 field to ourselves.  This was a nice surprise to have with this being our final training before we kick it into gear with the games.

I decided to scrap the session that I had planned and take full use of the space.  To begin we played 1v1 to 2v2 to goals to get lots of touches on the ball.  Another surprise that we received today was that the Stars (U18 Blue) train on the other half of the field from us and their keepers were not being used so they stepped in and played goalie for us.  It was cool for the girls to see the intensity they played with.  The 18's played all out and we had a couple of good collisions between them and the girls that really raised their awareness of where the keepers were and how top level keepers play.

Next we worked on our corner kicks again.  So many goals at the top level are scored on set pieces so it was really nice to be able to work on our corners again before the weekend.

After that we played 8v8.

For our skill portion after training we did some of the footskills routine, played 1v1 keep away, and finished with blob soccer.