With accuracy to success

Organisation 

• Players work in pairs or in teams and complete mini-challenges to improve core strength – be creative and create a winning environment
• Ask players to pick their opponents and try to beat them

 Ways to make the exercise easier

• Let players have one knee on the floor to give extra support

 Ways to make the exercise harder

• Require the players to hold the position for ten seconds before starting the game

Great questions to ask the children

• Which parts of your body do you feel are working to provide balance?
• How can you strengthen your core stability?
• Do you feel well balanced on both the right and left sides?

Safety tips

• Make sure players are not wearing watches
• Create a safe playing area

Organisation

• Organise eight players in a pass-and-move pattern
• Players pass through the gates in a sequence and follow their pass  
• Challenge the group to complete ten passes without the ball touching the cones 

 Ways to make the exercise easier

• Make the gates wider and closer

 Ways to make the exercise harder

• Make the gates smaller and further away
• Add a second ball

 Great questions to ask the children

• Can you focus on the strength and accuracy of your passes?
• What is the best part of the foot to use when making a short pass?
• Can you play first-time passes?

Safety tips

• Create a safe playing area

Organisation

• Organise a normal game for 7v7 but create triangular goals
• Each team has one goalkeeper who tries to defend each side of the goal
• If you have more than two goalkeepers, then rotate them or create two triangular goals at each end

 Ways to make the exercise easier

• Make the goals bigger

 Ways to make the exercise harder

• Make the goals smaller

 Great questions to ask the children

• Can you pass the ball around the triangle in order to try to shoot into an empty side?
• Can you disguise your passing, so that the goalkeeper cannot predict where you will shoot from?
• Goalkeepers – can you move your feet quickly and shuffle from side to side to cover your triangle?

 Safety tips

• Create a safe playing area