Soccer

Soccer Tunnel Tag

Soccer Round Up -

Equipment - As many soccer balls as you have or round balls that you can kick, hula hoops.

Dump all of the balls in the middle of the room. Divide the class into teams of 2-4. (roughly 10-12 teams) Circle the teams around the outside of the room with each team having a hula hoop to collect balls in. On the signal "go" each team sends a kid "relay style" to the center of the room to "round up" a ball, and return it to the hula hoop. As the kid returns to the team they high five the next kid who then takes their turn to get a ball.

The ball must stay in the hula hoop, before the high five.

Option 1. Play until all balls are gone and see which team has the most.

Option 2. Time the class to see how long it takes to "round up" all of the balls. Post the time and allow other classes to shoot for the time.

Option 3: Have one member stay behind in the hoop to be the goalie, the other memebers of the team can pass the balls back to the goalie who cannot move out of the hoop. Balls can be intercepted or stolen by other teams until they are in the hoop.

Soccer Pin Guard -

With the exception of 5 (or so) kids, everyone needs a bowling pin placed on the basketball or volleyball side/end line.
About 10 balls (we use gatorskin) into the middle of the space
On the signal "go" the kids may leave their pin and go to the middle space and get a ball, dribble it with their feet and try to kick it and knock over other pins.
If your pin is knocked over you must pick it up and hand it to the first person in line (the five kids who did not have a pin to start) waiting to get in, then go to the end of the line.
Try to encourage passing and working together with others.

The Great Goal game -

Similar to Madagascar (football game)

Divide the class into two teams, one on each side of the gym.

On each side of the gym there should be 3 islands (mats) (See diagram)

Each team sends 2 goalies to the mats on the other teams side

The balls are scattered in the middle of the space.

On the signal go, each team tries to pass soccer balls to their goalies (on the other teams side)

A goal can be scored if a goalie receives a pass directly from a teammate, or picks up a ball without touching the floor with any part of their body.

When a goal is scored the goalie yells "GOOOOOOOAAAL" and takes the ball to the appropriate bin, and returns to keep scoring

When all the balls are gone count which bin has the most, that team wins.

Trade goalies and start again.

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Hustle Your Bustle

(courtesy of Bob Leach and Mike McCoy - Game Trees;

Growing Games for All Ages - see reference on PE Teacher main page

Equipment:

·         Bowling pin or target for all but 5 of your students

·         15 – 20 “gator skin” type balls

·         Pinneys (optional)

Play

Divide the class into teams of 5 or 6.

Color code each team (with pinneys)

The first team stays in the designated area until the music starts, then they attempt to knock over as many targets as possible in the time given (60 seconds) using soccer dribble and instep kick.

The other teams work together to keep the targets standing, by defending or blocking the targets. Once a target is down it stays down until the end of the round. Defenders are allowed to roam freely either guarding targets, helping other defenders, or taking the ball away from the offensive players.

When the time is up, one point is awarded to the offensive team for each target that has been knocked over. The targets are re-set and a new offensive team takes it’s turn. Play until all teams have had a chance at offense.

Messy Room - Soccer Style

Divide the class in half, one on each side of the room
The center line of the gym is the "electric fence" (no crossing)
Dump the balls into the center of the space - we use gator skin balls for this
The idea is to kick the balls onto the other side of the room (to mess up the other room, while you clean up yours)
If the music stops everyone is to freeze and we count the balls to see which room is the cleanist (that team wins) then we cheer and re-start.
If one team's pins are all knocked down before the music stops that team loses.

Variations

Instead of kicking the balls to the other side you can use different "soccer skills"

Throw in
punt
goalie throw
toss and head it across (not great, but fun to watch)

Scooter Soccer (adapted from Scooter hockey)-

We run this with double classes, about 50 kids. The diagram has 36, we would add a kid or two to each team (as many scooters as we have).

We play for 2 minutes at a time and then rotate the teams in. Each team plays twice and sits once.

The kids play soccer on scooters, we play with a gator skin ball. The kids waiting to get in try to keep the ball on the field, not rolling over the mats.

You have to stay on your scooter to play the ball
There needs to be a "crease" for the goalie only.
After each goal, and at the beginning of the game the ball needs to start in the middle with a kickoff.
Goalies need to rotate so that everyone gets to play that position