need some soccer help for a u6 soccer team?

I've been playing soccer for 12 years and was the coach of my little brother's soccer team (u5)...

Don't take it to seriously...

1. passing with a partner (focus on using inside of foot, not the toe)

2. shooting (let them score)

3. warming up (10 jumping jacks, a short lap around the field...)

4. team work (shark and minnows... a game where you have a grid (usually in the goal box) and have half the team try and protect their soccer balls (each of them have one ball to guard) and the other half of the team has to try and get the ball away from a player and kick it out of the grid)

5. remind them to stay focused (only if they are blatantly goofing off)

6. Have FUN... u6 is still young and it is honestly more fun to watch them than actually win games... also get the parents involved (team mom, team banner) Having fun is what the kids remember later in life (at least that is what I remember most about u6 soccer)

hope this helps a bit... have fun

This is a great age for kids to get involved. You will hear many people telling you to teach them the team mentality and to pass, pass, pass. This may be true at thh older ages starting at about age 10 but for now your aim should be to help teach the kids to love the sport and start to develop fundamentals. Get the kids to become comfortable with the ball at their feet. You do not need to buy a whole lot of books but try a google search. Here is a very useful site to help get you started.

http://www.decatursports.com/soccerdrills.htm

Good luck, don't put an emphasis on winning at this age group. that comes later. One thing to try is to help them not bunch up. At this age the kids like to play "honey bee" soccer and all run after the ball in a pack or bunch like "honey bees. One thing I tried with a boys team about 4 - 5 years ago was tell them that they needed to stay a certain distance from their team mate. If they got closer they would "explode" and I would yell "bomb" and the kids had to jump up and down in place. They realized they had to do this mudane task when they got too close so they started to keep their distance and use more of the field.

It is a good thing you are doing, but yes you need some help. There are some golden rules when coaching young kids.

1. A second without a ball is a wasted second. At the very least, have a ball between two kids.

2. NO need for stamina/condition training, use ALL the time for ball skills.

3. Make sure the kids have a FUN time and that no-one is feeling left out.

I wish you all the best.

I had the same problem a a couple years ago when I had to help coach my friends little sisters team! Basically we started off the day with a run around the field to warm up ( in the beginning it was without balls and then later we started them with dribbling the balls while they ran but that was after awhile!! When they could control it better) Then we would stretch b/c we wanted to show that strecthing was important and we had them stand in a cicle around the coach and the coach would lead the stretching ( counting out loud was also fun!) For the first couple practices I would teach the kids the different positions and run threw what they do. Find out who wants to play where!! ( It depends but u might have to rotate the goalie position b/c some times u will get a team where no one wants to be goalie!) After learning the positions you can get to the practices! After the stretching and run we would begin by doing small drills with the soccer balls to get them learning the fundamentals like stopping it, kicking with inside and outside of the foot, hitting with both feet. This was done with partners about 5-8 ft apart. Then we would move to dribbeling the ball threw cones. We worked on different things for kids interested in different positions! We had a drill for defence, the for midfield and then for forward which helped the kids decide what positions they wanted to play. For offense we had shooting drills like the kid would face us and then we would roll the ball passed them and they would turn around and kick the ball into the net or we would have them pass a cone and then shoot it! With the midfielders we had them shooting and worked on passing the ball down the field. With defence we worked on clearing the ball and passing! At the end of practice we would do a fun game, either sharks and minnos which was the 18 yard box and every kid had a ball but one and that one went around and tried to kick everyones ball out! ( You can have the kids who lost there ball sit out and wait till the one kid gets everyone or u can have them all become sharks once then loose their ball!!) Another fun game is the link game u have everyone get a partner and they link arms everyone is spread out around the grid and then u pick a pair to seperate, one becomes the runner and the other the chaser, The runner tries to get away from the chaser and not get tagged, they can be safe by linking arms with another group but one they link arms with someone their partner becomes runner ( they are basically running around kinda like tag and the base is being linked arms!!) Alittle confusing!! Hope this helps and good luck!!

Ok well i play soccer so the drills we use alot are passing, that is they key to soccer. Do lots of practice games. Teach them positions, also do some cone drills. Do fun things that also makes them learn. GOOD LUCK and have a good season

All previous answers are very good answers.

Here is a link to a website that may help.

http://www.coachingsoccer101.com/