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Shrinking Your Goal
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Shrinking Your Goal

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dave

Written by Dave Clarke

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Focus on accurate shooting in this fun game that makes it harder to score if teams are winning by making the goal smaller and if a team misses the goal it gets bigger to help them score

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Coaching Objectives

This is all about accurate shooting and it provides a natural handicap that equals up teams in terms of skill.

There are no goalkeepers in this game. Play a 5v5 with goals marked by using training poles placed centrally at each end 5 yards wide. Play a normal game but each time a team scores shrink the goal by half a yard. If a team shoots and misses the goal gets bigger by half a yard to make scoring easier. 

 

Drill Setup

  • 15 Mins
  • 10 Players
  • 2 Goals
  • 5 Bibs
  • 40 x 30 y

What the Players Do

Players in teams of 5 play a normal game of football but with the emphasis on creating and scoring goals. Players must work hard off the ball to be able to create space and time to take their chances.…

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