 Hello and welcome to the SupremeSport YouTube channel. My name is Joel and today I'm going to be talking you through a session plan that I did with my under tens team. So this was the first session back after Easter so they had a long two weeks off. So this session was more of a recap on how we want to play and how they're going to do it. This session involves three drills which involves passing, movement, and also a bit of fitness. I'd say this session is suitable for about six to 10 players but obviously if you do have more you can alter it to your own needs. Anyways, let's get started. So with my under tens team I usually seem to start with a passing pattern just to get the ball moving, get the communication going, put them into good habits before we start the session. What this one practices is their passes down the line and also shifting the play from one side of the pitch to the other. So as you can see it only involves six cones and one ball so it isn't too equipment heavy so it should be pretty friendly for most coaches to use. So player number one has the ball here. The first thing they're going to do is play it down the line to player number five. Once they've done this they're going to then follow that pass onto the number five's cone. When number five receives the ball they're then going to play it into the middle and following suit they're going to follow their pass. Once player number four has received the ball in the middle they're then going to play it out to the other side. Like I said earlier with switching the ball from one side of the pitch to the other this is where it comes into practice and then following suit they're then going to follow their pass. Then just like on this side we're then going to play it down the line again. Then into the middle and then the player in the middle is going to dribble back to this cone so then we have a constant cycle. A few coaching points that I personally gave was communication. The pitch that we were training on was a little bit wobbly so we had to make sure that the pass was absolutely spot on. If your team is new to passing patterns I personally would suggest that we do it slowly. This way your players will get a better understanding on the passing pattern and why we are doing it. Once they've mastered it doing it slowly then you can pick up the pace a bit. A good tip that I personally do is I tend to count their passes. I would say, oh let's try and get 15 passes without messing up. This encourages the players to have more care into their pass so they don't mess up. I tend to do this for about five to 10 minutes. I obviously don't want to completely drain them with passing patterns because at the end of the day they are here to enjoy themselves but obviously they're here to learn as well. So after a good five, 10 minutes of this will then move on to the next drill. Okay, so moving on to the next drill as you can see it's still only six cones so very, very equipment friendly. What this drill practices is their movement one, two and finishing. So let's start on the left hand side with a little demo. So as you can see player number two is going to pass it over to player number three. Once number two has passed it they're then going to go and move over to the middle cone. Number three plays it back to number two and then makes a run into the box where number two feeds the ball back into number three and has a shot at goal. Once number three has had their shot number two then goes over into this cone. Number three joins the back of the line then number four will do the exact same over here. Then the one, two, number two shoots and hopefully scores. Now a question I had on my last video was what do you do about queuing? Now queuing is a very, very important factor of your session, especially if they're young. What I find is if they're queuing they're more likely to mess around which obviously as a coach you do not want. Thankfully I don't have that big of a team when it comes to numbers. I'd say for this session I had about seven players that's including a goalkeeper as well. So that's three on each queue. So they're really only gonna be waiting for about 30 seconds a go which I think is pretty manageable personally. Also what I found are that my players are very encouraging of one another. So what they'll do is they'll watch their teammate, shoot and hopefully score and cheer them on which I think is a fantastic thing to have. So what I did to progress this was by adding a defender into the middle. I didn't have enough numbers to have an actual defender so it had to be me. But this did work out quite nicely because I was able to coach my players what to do in a 1v1 situation to beat their defender and try and score. The duration of this drill usually lasts about 10 to 15 minutes so plan accordingly. So now that I've covered everything on this drill let's move on to the next one. Okay so moving on to the next drill as you can see this one is a little bit more equipment heavy because I am using mini pop-up goals but you can just use cones if you don't have access to these. So this drill is gonna work on their decision making in the final third and also they're tracking back as well. The last thing you want is a lazy winger on your team. So as you can see I have my front three highlighted in blue and two defenders highlighted in red. What I find with playing a front three on the match day is that I get a load of three V2 overloads. So this we should hopefully convert these three V2 overloads into goals. So the player in the middle cone is gonna start with the ball and they're all gonna progress forward and try and score. Let's say the defender comes to go and jockey the player in the middle we can then play it out wide. Then the player in the middle can make a run forward because we practice the one twos earlier get fed through and try and score. However, once the forward situation is finished the two players that are highlighted in black are gonna run forward and try and score in these mini goals. The front three's job is to try and track back and stop them from doing so. This teaches them not to over commit themselves and also is really good for their fitness. Do try and emphasize that it isn't the end of the world if they do score. Obviously this drill can be quite competitive so we do wanna try and keep ourselves as encouraging and as positive as possible. What I would suggest to the two players being highlighted in black is for those to be your wing backs if you do play with wing backs or full backs. This encourages them to drive forward with the ball and look for that line pass. There's plenty of ways that we can progress this. We can do they have to do a certain amount of passes before they can score. We can do that they have to finish on a one touch finish or you can give them a time limit in which they have to score it. This encourages them to be more direct and move quickly with the ball and make a quick and correct decision. Do make sure you swap round the front three and let someone else have a go in the middle and do make sure that you do swap your defenders and your wing backs. Let everyone have a go. Get some confidence together and try and score some goals. The duration of this drill is a good 10, 15 minutes so after this I do the training match. So now your players are ready for the training match. The main tips that I would give going into it are tracking back, keeping possession and one twos. Now what we can do to progress this is by laying some cones out like so and making the pitch more like a diamond so they don't get stuck in the corners. This can encourage your players to be more direct and also when the ball does come out of the diamond it will test their movement in the throwing situation. You can also do similar progressions to the last drill when it comes to the number of passes before you can score or one touch finish him. After a good 10, 15 minutes of your match you should be all done. So that is the end of the video. If you did enjoy make sure you do leave a like. Do feel free to give this session a go. Let us know how it went. You can email us, leave it in the comments or even let us know on our TikTok. Do make sure to check out our website for any of our coaching services. And I do hope you have a lovely day. Thank you for watching and take care guys.