📋 Session Plan
U11 Finishing Variety
A 60-minute session focused on finishing from different angles, serves, and scenarios — the variety that translates training to matches.
A 60-minute session focused on finishing from different angles, serves, and scenarios — the variety that translates training to matches.
Free dribble while squad gathers. By the time the formal warm-up begins, late arrivals are already warm and engaged.
Standard 16×16 yard square. By minute 6, add called skills. Sets up the body for striking work.
The technical centrepiece. Run all 4 phases. With 9 players: 3 servers, 3 finishers active, 2 in queue, 1 GK. Build in 60-second water break at minute 12.
Apply the finishing work in match scenarios. Constraint: 'must shoot within 2 seconds of receiving in the attacking third'. Forces the composure under pressure that the technical block built.
Question: 'name a different type of finish you tried today'. Reinforces the variety theme through verbal recall.
Clear demonstrations and high energy. Keep the session moving with minimal queuing, and reinforce one or two key coaching points rather than overloading players with information.
Players standing in queues (set up enough stations to keep everyone active) and the session running too long on one activity (keep blocks tight and move on while engagement is high).
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