Football Fitness
Mirror Youth Movement Games
Develop coordination and agility through games
Football Fitness
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Speed & Agility
Mirror 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
Coordination
Duration
10 min
Players
4-24
Pitch size
20 x 20 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate
Pitch diagram
Mirror Youth Movement Games — Two lines working across the area · 20 x 20 yards
Step 1 of 5Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
- 1. Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
- 2. Every game finishes with a dribbling lap of the square.
- 3. Keep rounds short and change the game often.
- 4. One line leads a movement and the opposite line copies it exactly.
- 5. Swap leaders every 45 seconds so everybody leads.
- Ball
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Two facing lines — pass and follow
- 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
- 1An open square with coloured cones on the corners in a 20 x 20 yards area.
- 2Face players in two lines five yards apart with a ball each.
- 3A ball each and plenty of spare cones.
Coaching instructions
- 1Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
- 2Every game finishes with a dribbling lap of the square.
- 3Keep rounds short and change the game often.
- 4One line leads a movement and the opposite line copies it exactly.
- 5Swap leaders every 45 seconds so everybody leads.
Coaching points
- -Movement should look like play, not training
- -Change direction often
- -Short games, frequent changes
- -Watch the leader's hips, not their ball
Common mistakes
- -Long runs with no ball
- -Adult conditioning drills for young players
- -Copying late instead of reacting
Where this drill fits
- More football football fitness drills
- More football warm ups drills
- More football speed & agility drills
- football drills for U8s
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for beginners
- Football session plans built around this theme