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Practice games

226 games in eight themes, for coaches at training and for families at home. Every game has a diagram, most have a video, and every one keeps a ball at every foot.

Eight themes

Moving WellRunning, jumping, balancing, stopping and starting. The body before the ball.
14 coach games 11 home gamesMe and My BallLots of touches, both feet, keeping the ball close.
22 coach games 41 home gamesBrave 1v1Taking a player on, and going again when it doesn't come off.
23 coach games 18 home gamesPass, Receive, Heads UpStop it, move it on, and look up before the ball arrives.
27 coach games 19 home gamesShooting and ScoringStriking a ball, picking a corner, having a go.
14 coach games 18 home gamesWin It, Keep It, ScoreWinning the ball back, keeping it as a team, and finishing the move.
25 coach games 6 home gamesEveryone's a KeeperCatching, diving, rolling and throwing. Everyone gets a turn in goal.
8 coach games 5 home gamesColts Street FootballSmall games, made-up rules, jumpers for goalposts. Football for the love of it.
12 coach games 7 home games

Three threads in every game

Colts Habits

Work hard, be brave, lift each other, in every game.

Both Feet

The practice foot gets a go in every game.

Heads Up

Look up before the ball arrives.

How to read the diagrams
Team ATeam BCCoachGGrown-up (at home)YLYoung leader (always with a coach)Joker or free playerBallCone (two make a gate)Flat discHoopGoalHousehold item, labelledRunDribblePassShot

Games marked "From the Irish FA Grassroots Resource Booklet" are the Irish FA's, used with their permission, with the small changes that keep them inside our rules: nobody is ever out, no queues, no scores kept.

Every game, A to Z