Keep Away Soccer | Playworks

To develop eye-foot coordination, communication and cooperation.

Skills Practiced: Kicking, passing, trapping and spatial awareness.

Set up an area with clear boundaries, using lines or cones.
Explain the rules of the game and ask students to explain the game back to you.
Review the basic soccer rules that you are reinforcing with this game.
Explain and demonstrate the concepts of passing with the side of your foot, moving within the field unguarded by a player on the other team, calling for a pass, spreading out and safe defense, all without touching.

Split students into two teams.
Have one or both teams wear jerseys so players can tell who is on each team.
Begin with three or fours players keeping it away from one player.
As the players become more comfortable with the ball, the teams can be made more even.
For the lower skill levels, begin with a keep away game from only one or two players rotating them periodically.
Players try to keep possession of the ball by passing the ball to their teammates.
The team that does not have possession attempts to regain the ball and keep the ball away from the other team.
Points can be given if teams make a certain number of passes before the other team touches the ball.
Assign players a position so they have a spot on the field where they know they should play near.