Coaching Plan

 

Coach Name: Cooper Prisk                                                                                              Date: 19/10/2024

Sport:   Soccer                                       Level/Grade: Young Adults

Session Focus: to increase fundamental skills such as passing and controlling ability, knowledge of and ability to hold possession, dribbling and holding onto the ball

Player learning outcome/s: Confidence with and off the ball and knowledge of the fundamentals of possession and keeping the ball

Resources: Soccer Pitch, Soccer Balls, Cones

Session OUTLINE

Episode 1 Introduction                                                                                                          Time Allocated: 10 Minutes

Player/s will warm up with stretches and light warm up drills. After this, players will pass the ball around amongst themselves to get their legs warm and familiarise themselves with the ball and conditions.

Coach will use the teaching style of Task/Command

Episode 2 Session Activities:                                                                                     Time Allocated: 15 minutes

Player/s will be tasked with dribbling through sets of cones and then passing off the ball to their next player who will then repeat what the previous player did

Coach will use the teaching styles of Task and Guided Discovery    The coach will also try to guide players through inquiry to get players thinking about how to dribble effectively and pass effectively.

Episode 3   Session Activities                                                                             Time Allocated: 15 minutes

Player/s will be tasked with completing further passes along the ground and lofted in the air and attempting to improve not only their passing but also their power, accuracy/placement and control of the ball

Coach will use the teaching styles of Task, Guided Discovery and a touch of Command    The coach will also try and guide players through inquiry to get players thinking about how they can pass the ball correctly on the ground and in the air, and how players should be controlling the ball from the pass

Episode 4 Session Activities                                                                              Time Allocated: 15 minutes

Player/s will play the 3x3 meter game where these players will each get a ball and their goal is to keep possession of the ball and the objective of the game is to get the opposition players ball out of the square whilst also maintaining possession of their own ball

Coach will be using the teaching style of Task, Guided Discovery, Convergent Discovery and Individual Programming    The coach will also try and guide players through inquiry to get players thinking about how they can shield the ball effectively and be aware of the other player attempting to knock them out of the square

Episode 5 Session Closure                                                                                                    Time Allocated 1-5 minutes

Player/s will then be tasked with answering on how the session went and 3 things each they took from the session

Coach will use the teaching style of Divergent Discovery, Guided Discovery and Task

Coach session reflection  Session strength (what worked)?   What went well was how the coached athletes improved throughout the session and the information they understood/took from the session. The athletes showed that they took quite a bit from the session and with the questioning at the end they each described things they learned and understood with ease.     Session can be improved next time by…   The session in my opinion could be improved with more numbers; more athletes available to coach, unfortunately only 2 players were available for the ideal time frame which meant some drills needed to be adapted however the session still ran smoothly.