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 Spring/Summer '07 Travel BU12C3 practice plans

For this season of travel I am focusing primarily on individual techniques, 1v1 and small sided tactics early in the season. From there we will move to more full game work. Practices incorporate the FA Soccerstar Challenge material, footskills from jbstrongsoccer.com, items from the US Youth Soccer National Youth course, previous year's material and new learning from the State D licence course.

Practice 1 - Juggling and Striking the Ball , Juggling Basics , How to kick correctly

Practice 2 - Dribbling for Speed (and FA Soccerstar test)

Practice 3 - Turning with the Ball (and FA Soccerstar test) list of 1v1 moves and turns

Practice 4 - Dribbling to Beat an Opponent 1v1 (and FA Soccerstar test)

Practice 5 - Running with the Ball (and FA Soccerstar test)

Practice 6 - Heading (and FA Soccerstar test)

Practice 7 - Intro to Shooting (and FA Soccerstar test)

Practice 8 - 1v1 Attack

Practice 9 - 1v1 Defense

Practice 10 - 2v2 Attack

Practice 11 - 2v2 Defense

Practice 12 - Passing and Receiving

Practice 13 - Team D concepts

Practice 14 - Team D concepts

Practice 15 - Midfield play and Penetration

Practice 16 - Midfield play and Penetration

Practice 17 - Transition and game concepts

Practice 18 - Game prep

Dakota Rev tournament (Fri, Sat, Sun) - pre-game warm-up drills

Practice 19 - Team Attack - Crossing & Patterns 1

Practice 20 - Decision Making on Attack

Shakopee festival (Sat)

Practice 21 - Transition to D

Practice 22 - Transition to D (cont)

Practice 23 - Passing & Receiving

game v Rochester 1

game @ Rochester 2

Valley United tournament (Fri, Sat, Sun)

game v Owatonna

game v Burnsville

Practice 24 - Finishing and Control

game @ Northfield

game v Faribault

Practice 25 - Passing and Control

Practice 26 - Finishing and Control 2

game @ Dakota Rev

Lakeville Pan-o-Prog tournament (Fri, Sat, Sun)

game @ Winona

game v Winona

Practice 27 - Defensive team shape

Practice 28 - Attacking patterns, corner kicks

Burnsville Fire tournament (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Practice 29 - Attacking team shape, corner kicks

game @ Rochester 1

Practice 30 - Defensive team shape

Practice 31 - scrimmage v St. Louis Park C2 pic1 pic2

Practice 32 - restarts and long balls (driven, lofted, chip, bend)

Practice 33 - Transition to D

Practice 34 - Finishing and Control 2

State Tournament!!!!!!

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