Under-12 Skill Priorities

• Continue mastering U10 and under skills.
• Speed Dribbling in Traffic
• Ability to chip the ball
• Accurately play long passes with laces
• Apply proper techniques for offensive & defensive heading
• Power/Accuracy Shooting
• Utilize proper Offensive and Defensive heading technique

Tactical Priorities:

• Continue mastering U10 and under skills
• Communication
• Basic Support Positions
• Receiving the Ball Away from Pressure
• How and when to switch the point of attack
• Pressure vs. Containing
• Proper 2 vs. 2 roles
• Introduction to all roles in 3 vs. 3
• Keep asking the players to be creative and to take risks – we never want them to stop doing these things
• Ask for feedback from them – they will tell you how things are going
• Try to hand over leadership and ownership of the team to them
• Keep it fun!!!

U-12 Juggling Benchmarks

This will take commitment to practice outside of training…

All players should be able to juggle 10 touches with no more than 2 simultaneous touches with the same body part

Most should be able to juggle 20+ touches …

Some will be able to juggle 30+ touches …