Players Required:
8
Set Up:
The two teams play 4 v 4 on a small field with three small goals set up on each end line. Games are played to three goals, and new teams are formed after each game. As the game progresses, the center goals are taken off of the field.
Coaching Points:
1. When an area of the field closes down, switch the field.
2. Anticipate changes of possession and move before your opponent does.
3. When your team has possession, you are an attacker. When it doesn’t, you’re a defender!
Progressions:
1. Add a neutral and play 4 v 4 plus one.
Questions
- Why should we look centrally before playing out wide? (because the only reason to play wide is because the space doesn’t exist in the center. We want to get the ball as close the goal as we can!).
- Why should we immediately get wide when our team wins the ball?? (width gives up the option to play wide, and makes the defenders spread out for us…allowing us to play centrally).
- Why is a cross on the ground preferred over a cross in the air? (depends on the situation, but scoring from the ground is easier than scoring from the air).
