Soccer Camp Suggestions

iloveireland · 31-07-2007 8:21pm #1

Im Going To Be Coaching A Soccer Camp And I Was Wondering If Anybody Here Could Suggest Any Fun Soccer Games That The Kids Could Play?

Thanks!

Drag00n79 · 31-07-2007 9:51pm

What camp is it? Have they not given you an idea of what to do? There's quite a few games ideas in the FAI Kickstart 1 folder. Also there's plenty of stuff online - just google.

zAbbo · 31-07-2007 9:57pm

Capitilise The First Letter In Every Word, That Normally Gets Them Going.

Lex Luthor · 31-07-2007 10:03pm

Tennis Soccer is always good fun

iloveireland · 31-07-2007 10:04pm

zabbo wrote:

Capitilise The First Letter In Every Word, That Normally Gets Them Going.

I had caps lock on, and it capitalises the start of every word

iloveireland · 31-07-2007 10:07pm

Lex Luthor wrote:

Tennis Soccer is always good fun

ye i had that in mind.

Cheers!

zAbbo · 31-07-2007 10:11pm

iloveireland wrote:

I had caps lock on, and it capitalises the start of every word

Trying not to be overly pedantic here, but thats not the function of caps lock.

iloveireland · 31-07-2007 10:45pm

PHB · 01-08-2007 12:35am

I used to love this game called gauntlet.
It'd line up like this.

X is a player
| is a boundary

_____
|......|
|..X..|
|......|

_____
|......|
|..X..|
|......|

So each person would be inside the box. Inbetween each box would be a safety area. What you would do is, one kid would get the ball at the start. He'd have to try and dribble his way through each box without losing the ball and without going outside the boundary.
If a person won the ball off him, they'd get the ball, and have to try get past everyone. Each time somebody won the ball, there would be an empty box. The person who just lost the ball would have to go to the last box, and everybody else would move up one.
The first person to get to the end wins.
It was a cracking game, I really loved it

yom 1 · 01-08-2007 9:27am

http://www.eteamz.com/soccer/pills/jpill.htm

Thats a pretty good site for ideas

griffdaddy · 01-08-2007 6:19pm

If you want to really teach them how to play modern football, you'll need at least an hour of diving techniques, and an hour of coaching on how to squeeze money out of clubs and wrangle out of contracts, then hand out spot prizes for whoever can complain the best when they don't receive a perfect ball

iloveireland · 01-08-2007 9:17pm

yom 1 wrote:

http://www.eteamz.com/soccer/pills/jpill.htm

Thats a pretty good site for ideas

cheers mate, great games on that!

estebancambias · 02-08-2007 12:39pm

The thing is, I think football 'fun' games tend to isolate people, well at least from my memorys. If kids are under 13, I don't think they should ever be put in a one on one situation. It's hard to explain, but I'm talking from expierence.

Play with a small football, would be a good idea, and just play mini matches, ensuring that everyone goes in goal.

PHB · 02-08-2007 12:48pm

I don't know about that, I coach tennis, and I find most kids really enjoy individual challenges, and if they don't win, they really want to. It's all about creating a healthy competitive ethic, which will serve them very well in later life even if they arne't that good at soccer.

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