Indoor Training for U6/U7: Tag Game - Mats as a Prison

Pitch: Mark out a large square with 4 cones and lay out a floor mat on each side between two cones. The four mats serve as a prison.

Equipment: 4 cones, 4 floor mats, bibs in two colours.

Players: Two teams, which spread out freely in the area.

• On the coach's starting signal four players of the first team set off as catchers.
• Their task is to tag the players of the second team.
• Whoever is caught stands on one of the mats, which serves as a prison.
• A caught player can be freed by a team-mate tagging that player.

Scoring: Which team has caught all the opposing players first?

Variations:

• A player can get free without help by completing an exercise on the mat, for example a forward roll or star jumps.
• With one exercise on the mat a player can free all the team-mates at once.
• The players tuck bibs into their shorts: how quickly does one team manage to collect all the bibs of the other team?
• Whoever gets to safety on a mat cannot be caught, the mat is then a safe zone.