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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