Get to know the game

Organisation

• Divide the group into two teams of equal numbers
• Change the size and shape of the game area
• Ask the players to move in different ways, e.g. hopping, jumping sideways

Ways to make the exercise easier

• Make the space bigger

Ways to make the exercise harder 

• Decrease the space available
• Increase the number of taggers
• Make taggers run whilst dribbling a ball

Great question to ask the players 

• What do you have to do to avoid the taggers? (potential answers: move quickly, change direction, disguise your movement)

Safety tips 

• Players should keep their heads up so that they can see others around them
• The taggers should avoid being aggressive when tagging

Organisation

• Split the players into several teams, if possible
• Challenge the players to shoot the ball between other player's legs
• The players take turns to shoot; make it a race

Ways to make the exercise easier

• Choose a larger target
• Move the target closer to the players

Ways to make the exercise harder 

• Choose smaller targets
• Move the target further away
• Establish a time limit within which targets must be knocked down
• Challenge players to shoot the ball between another player’s legs

Great questions to ask the players

• Which part of the foot should you kick with?
• What strategies work best for you?

Safety tips

• Make sure that all players stay behind the ball

 Organisation

• Try to organise teams of equal ability; or
• Let players choose their own teams
• Have two teams at each end and let them take turns to play

Ways to make the exercise easier 

• Make the game area larger and add a player
• Any player can take the ball over the end line to score a point

Ways to make the exercise harder

• The ball has to be stopped on the end line to score

Great question to ask the players 

• What did you and your team mate need to do to successfully get the ball over the line? (examples: use good ball skills, communicate well, work together, help each other, trust each other)

Safety tips

• Create a safe zone between each mini‑pitch