TCYSA PRACTICE PLAN (6 – 12 YEAR OLDS): RELEASING THE BALL
Objective – Teach players to pass the ball with the inside of their foot
1. Laser Tag
2. Gate Passing
3. 3v3 Get Big
4. Match
Activity Time: 2 min or everyone has ball
Recovery Time: 1 min (juggling)
Duration: 15 min
Intervals: 4 (followed by ABC
movements)
Organization: Set up a playing grid with
cones. Line up extra balls around the
grid. 1 player starts with a ball and tries
to hit another player below the knees.
When a player gets hit they get a ball
from outside the grid and try to hit
other players with out a ball.
Coaching Points: Teach players to put
their plant foot next to the ball when
passing. Teach players to lock their ankle
when passing.
Guided Question: Where should your
plant foot point when passing at a
player?
Activity Time: 1 min
Recovery Time: 1 min (2 touch passing)
Duration: 8 min
Intervals: 4
Organization: Set up numerous gates in
random order. Each player has a partner
and each pair has a ball. Players try to
pass through as many gates as possible in
1 min. After passing through a gate they
go to a new gate.
Coaching Points: Teach players to make
eye contact before passing. Teach players
to keep their body over the ball.
Guided Question: When you lean back
before you pass where does the ball go?
What can you do with your body to keep
the ball down?
Activity Time: 1 min
Recovery Time: 1 min
Duration: 16 min
Intervals: 8
Organization: 25x15 field with mini goals.
Players are divided into 2 teams. 3 players on
each team enters field and the coach plays
the ball into the team that makes the biggest
triangle first. Each team tries to score as
many goals as possible during 1 min then
next group comes on.
Coaching Points: Teach players to make their
formation big when in possession of the ball.
Teach players to step through their pass to
put more pace on it.
Guided Question: How does having a hard
pass help your team? What can the defender
do when the pass is slow?
Activity Time: 10 min
Recovery Time: 2 min
Duration: 22 min
Intervals: 2
Organization: Create as realistic of a game
environment as possible by having players
in positions and playing with FIFA Laws of
the Game.
Coaching Points: Use this time to observe
the players in a game environment and
their application of releasing the ball.
Teach players to pass and then run to
open space.
Guided Question: Where can you pass
the ball so that your teammate and keep
running forward with out slowing down?