Session 1 Football

in this session we did football and Shaun Macaulay from Sheffield Wednesday took the training session we focused mostly on the cruyff turn after a enjoyable warm up which lasted approximately 10-15 Min's in the warm up we ran around but not in a straight line or in a circle this was really tiring but it was fun an exciting at the same time. Then we moved onto moving with a ball and trapping the ball when Shaun shouted stop, then this progressed onto doing a trick when Shaun shouted cruyff turn we ran and did a cruyff turn and accelerated out. I believe i was pretty confident and did OK with the cruyff turn as i had already done this turn before in my career the cruyff turn is a turn on the ball which you turn dragging the side of your foot 180 degrees an attempet to fool the opposistion. The cruyff turn is a simple turn but can be a huge advantage against the opposing player if u believe u can take the player on with this trick. I believe some of the players could do this turn more easily than others. The players not so good with the turn before the practice improved significantly and also the players who was pretty good at the trick improved a bit aswell. After the ball dribbling and tricks we moved onto a game with the not so good players having as many touches with the ball as they want and the good players having only 2 touches of the ball at a time, to score a goal there was to cones to make a little goal all over the pitch so this game brought awareness and fast feet at the same time. i really enjoyed this game at the end because you had to think fast and Shaun encouraged everyone to use cruyff turn in the game to fool the opposing sides players.