Principles of Age Appropriate Development

Characteristics:

• 8-12 year olds have a special ability to learn. Therefore, this is the right age to work on specific soccer techniques and skills. Developing good technique is essential at this age.

• 1v1 and 2v1 attacking and defending situations are important to develop individual skills as well as passing techniques to develop the necessary team game.

• Using Small Sided Games to develop basic attacking and defending principles.

9v9 Practice Set Up

Warm Up - 15 minutes

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Technical Game - 20 minutes

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Scrimmage - 25 minutes

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60 minutes

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