FOOTBALL RELATED GAMES GRASSROOTS GAMES – 9 YEARS EXAMPLES OF TRAINING SESSIONS TO IMPROVE TECHNICAL SKILLS IN THE GAME PDF

The instructor, coach or trainer, acting in youth development, whatever his name is, should be first of all a teacher and a trusted confidant for young

players!

Grassroots is the foundation-stone of the pyramid of football. 

The FAS, together with local communities, schools, clubs etc. is dedicated to create opportunities for young children to play and having fun and to take the first steps for playing football.

To make this realistic, FAS is providing a quality programme with educated coaches for children from 6 years till 9 years, with the necessary infrastructure, material, equipment, etc.

In this Grassroots Manual we included a great number of games, selected to be used in the development plan making the progress from playing games into playing football.

The games are divided in 4 groups:

1. Fun Games

2. Football related Games

3. Technical exercises

4. Examples of training sessions

Those exercises/games have been selected, among others, from important sources like FIFA, The Belgian F.A., the FAS manuals, etc. and divided in groups corresponding with the requirements for the different age categories: 6-7-8-9 years.

It is obvious that other games can be added, but it should remain in the same philosophy as indicated in the Manual.

The approach is to educate and develop young players by using a quality educational program, remembering what John KEYNES said:

“The real difficulty lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones!“