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Count-Up Youth Movement Games

Develop coordination and agility through games

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Count-Up Youth Movement Games is a 10-minute football fitness drill for 4-24 players, suitable for Under 5 to Under 11 at beginner, intermediate level. You need balls, cones. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.

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Fitness Type: Movement
Repetition

Duration

10 min

Players

4-24

Pitch size

20 x 20 yards

Ability levels

Beginner / Intermediate

Pitch diagram

Pitch set-up: Count-Up Youth Movement Games123420 x 20 yards

Count-Up Youth Movement Games — Four-corner square · 20 x 20 yards

Step 1 of 5Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.

  1. 1. Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
  2. 2. Every game finishes with a dribbling lap of the square.
  3. 3. Keep rounds short and change the game often.
  4. 4. Start on the whistle and count reps out loud as a group.
  5. 5. The squad has three attempts to beat its own total.
  • Cones mark the area
  • Ball
  • Cones mark each station in the shape
  • Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble

Objectives

  • -Develop coordination and agility through games
  • -Build fitness without adult conditioning work
  • -Keep every player smiling and moving

Setup

  1. 1An open square with coloured cones on the corners in a 20 x 20 yards area.
  2. 2Give every player a home cone and a ball.
  3. 3A ball each and plenty of spare cones.

Coaching instructions

  1. 1Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
  2. 2Every game finishes with a dribbling lap of the square.
  3. 3Keep rounds short and change the game often.
  4. 4Start on the whistle and count reps out loud as a group.
  5. 5The squad has three attempts to beat its own total.

Coaching points

  • -Movement should look like play, not training
  • -Change direction often
  • -Short games, frequent changes
  • -Count only the reps done properly

Common mistakes

  • -Long runs with no ball
  • -Adult conditioning drills for young players
  • -Counting sloppy reps to inflate the score

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