Motor skills and ball control: body and ball mastery

Excellent exercise to improve footwork, balance, and body and ball control for U11 or U13 players. Use the competitive spirit to create enthusiasm.

Motor skills and ball control: body and ball mastery
Durée de l'exercice

Durée

12 min
Nombre de joueurs

Joueurs

8-10
Thème de l'exercice

Thème

Technique
Animation: Motor skills and ball control: body and ball mastery
Set up 2 identical stations. Place 4 hoops one meter apart from each other to form a square. Then place another hoop behind with 5 balls inside the hoop. Arrange 4 cones a few meters further to create 2 gates.

The player must complete the following course, first with the right foot then with the left foot:
  1. Step with the right foot then the left foot in each hoop
  2. Pick up the ball in the 5th hoop and dribble between the 2 gates while alternating foot positions
  3. Stop the ball in the hoop on the way back

You can of course introduce a form of competition between the 2 teams to energize the exercise. Ideally, perform a relay in this type of agility exercise.

Variation: you can then replace the hoops with side bars and ask the players to perform side steps before retrieving the ball in the last hoop.

Variation with ground bars and side steps
Variation with ground bars and side steps


Don't forget, if you have a large number of players during your training session, consider dividing the groups and duplicating the stations so that all players can be as active as possible. This is crucial if you want to work on agility and ball control.