U13 Pre-Season — Week 2 Touch & Tempo

Standard pass-and-move warm-up. Raise the technical demand from week 1: 1-touch passing only after minute 4. Keep tempo medium, distance short. The pairs work also continues the social rebuild — partner up players who don't normally talk to each other.

First proper rondo of pre-season. Run two parallel 3v1s if you have 12 players. Run for 15 minutes — that's a lot of rondo, but it's reactivating the passing-under-pressure habit that decayed over summer. Don't over-coach. Just let them play, fix only the most obvious technical issues.

First conditioned SSG of pre-season. The wide-channel rule (goals only count if ball passes through a wide zone) is gentle — encourages width but doesn't punish too harshly. Run 16 minutes with the rule, 9 minutes free play. Watch for which players are still finding their rhythm — that's information for week 3.

Slightly longer cool-down because legs are still adjusting. 4 minutes of static stretches first, then 6 minutes of circle. Question: 'what's improved from last week?'. Get them to articulate the progress; it builds confidence and re-establishes the sense of the squad as a team that's developing.