U-9-10 Rep Team Development Plan
Goals & Objectives

Coaches Characteristics

*Skills include a strong personality with good soccer knowledge both in theory and the ability to demonstrate the skills required to teach the team. The coach should be enthusiastic, patient, positive, but demanding.

Development of individual skills – individual and small group tactics:
-The pace of development in game speed at this time is due to cardio, physical and athletic development.
-The demands of technical skills training as well as cardio should be maintain.
-Awareness of players responsibility within the game becomes an important facet of the learning process.
-Players start to get more confident, and need to touch the ball a lot more daily.
-Learning new touches with the ball but have a strong desire to try new skills.

Technique:
–Build on the base of getting comfortable with the ball always keeping their head while handling the ball.
–Emphasize the development of individual ball handling skills at game speed
-Continue to increase technical touches and encourage players to use it in games

Dribbling:
Encourage the player to keep their heads up and teach moves, how to keep possession of the ball and how to shield and protect the ball by carrying the ball on the opposite side of the opponent

Receiving:
-Emphasize a quality first touch both on the ground and in the air.
-Have players receive ball on all surfaces and work on turning. Players should use all surfaces and learn to receive the ball on the run.

Movement off the ball:
-Emphasis will be made in order to keep ball possession as a team. Must know where the opponents are at all time.

Shooting:
-Work on shooting on the ball with their laces, on the run and dead ball with proper techniques.

Set Plays:
-Free Kicks from all area around goal area.
–Corner kick long & short.
–Penalty kick.

Passing:
-Work on short, long, crossed, using all surfaces. All should be learned with proper techniques.

Tackling:
-Emphasize on jockeying and when to tackle using proper techniques.

Tactics:
-Increase tactical speed (decision making under pressure)
-Individual: Work on 2 v. 1, 3v2, in attack and defense.
-In attack: Teach players to keep possession when there is time and space in the proper areas of the field.
-In defense: Teach how to apply proper pressure in 1v1 situation.
–Small group: Start with 2 v. 1, 2 v 2, 3 v. 2, 3 v 3.

In attack:
-Teach to keep team possession, support, and combination play.
-Continue working on striking ball with proper techniques.
-Start to introduce more basic set plays.

In defense:
-Players will be introduce to work as a unit to close down space and support each other 2v1 and team defending.
-Be a part of break out and attacking plays