Week 4

Social Awareness & Attacking

Objectives:

  • SEL:  Players will be able to identify verbal, physical, and situational cues that indicate how others may feel. Players describe the expressed feelings/perspectives of others.

  • SOCCER: Players will be able to demonstrate confidence and a positive attitude when attacking in a 1v1.

Day 1:

Agenda

10 min- Informal Time: Attendance, Warm Welcome

15 min- Warm Up: Spider Tag

5 min- Soccer Focus Intro: Attacking Skill: Feint Move

15 min- Dribbling- Unopposed: Fall For It

15 min- Dribbling- Opposed: 1 v 1 Attacking

25 min- Scrimmage

  • Soccer Skill Question:

    How do you do a Feint Move?

    Be on the balls of your feet with a bend in your knees

    Lean in the fake direction

    Try dropping the shoulder or bending your knee in the fake direction

    Keep the ball close to you as possible

    Then lean into the opposite direction and dribble that way

    When do we use a Feint move?

    -When trying to dribble around an opponent

    SEL Question:

    1. Today we are working on Social Awareness, what is social awareness?

    -identifying how someone feels

    2. How did you encourage someone today?

    3. Who do you want to shout out today for being a good teammate during our scrimmage?

Day 2:

Agenda

10 min- Informal Time: Attendance, Warm Welcome

15 min- Warm Up: Stingers

5 min- Soccer Focus Intro: Attacking Skill: Stepover

15 min- Dribbling- Unopposed: Big Box, Little Box

15 min- Dribbling- Opposed: Catch Me If You Can

25 min- Scrimmage

  • Soccer Skill Question:

    1. How do you do a Step over Move?

    -Left foot steps over the ball and lands on the right side

    -The right foot kick the ball to the right and goes in that direction

    2. When do we use the step-over move?

    -When dribbling past an opponent

    SEL Question:

    1. Who is someone that helped you out today or encouraged you?

    2. How did hearing the encouragement of others make you feel?

Day 3:

Game Day or Scrimmage Day

  • See here for game day preparation checklist.

Optional Game Realistic Activities:

Numbers

1 v 1 Domination

  • 1. This week we worked on Social Awareness. Who can tell us what Social Awareness is?

    -Social awareness is recognizing other people's feelings and supporting them

    2. Who can tell me what you can do if another player is upset that they turned over the ball?

    -Talk to them, tell them it's okay, encourage them to try again

    3. Who can tell me what you should do if you score on another player?

    -Be excited for yourself but tell them “good try”, encourage them to try again, teach them something new

Captain’s Corner

Fall Season:

  • Encourage teammates through cheering, conversations, and shout outs.

Spring Season:

  • To give a shout-out to 3 players using their name for their growth over the season.