Sharks and Minnows
8 min · Beginner · 6+ players · Medium space
ballscones
Description
20x20 grid, most players with balls, 1-2 sharks without trying to kick balls out of the grid. A minnow who loses their ball leaves the grid. (Age fit: U6-U10.)
Curriculum
- Ages
- U6-U10
- Players
- 6+
- Opposition
- Live opposition
- Session phase
- Play 1 (opening game) · Practice (teaching)
- With a squad of 12
- 2 groups of 6. Run them side by side.
Trains 4 objectives
- Look up while you dribbleU7-U8 · ball-mastery
- Take someone on 1v1U7-U8 · beating-an-opponent
- Get your head up on the ballU9-U10 · ball-mastery
- Beat a defender 1v1U9-U10 · beating-an-opponent
Skills
The video-tagging vocabulary, used for ingestion and browsing, separate from the curriculum above, which is what the practice engine selects on.
Individual Technique
Ball Mastery / Dribbling