Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Practice 1/21: Training Session Technical Passing

Explosiveness, Agility and Ball Skills (15 mins)

Here is a simple activity that works on explosiveness, agility and ball skills.

Start with 4 hurdles (height can vary depending upon the player but 1-2 feet high work fine)

spaced in a line 1 yard apart. The players starts behind the last hurdle and there are 2 servers 5

yards from the first hurdle each slightly off to the side. The servers each have a ball.

The player starts by jumping over the first hurdle then quickly slides to his right and receives a

pass from the server

He passes the ball back one touch and then slides to the other side and receives a pass from the

other server.

After returning that pass one touch he slides back to the middle jumps over the hurdle and does

the same in the other direction

This continues all the way down the line (you can also add more hurdles to make this more

difficult).

This can be repeated working on different skills (headers, volleys, two touch passing etc).

There are many other options to this so your greatest limitation on this will be your creativity.

Combining work on explosiveness, agility and skills is a great way to get a lot done in a short

period of time.

Passing Square Phase IV (15 mins)

Organization

- 12x12yrd square with starting positions at corners

- Player B lays ball back to player A, player A plays diagonal in 1 touch if possible to player C, player C lays ball back to player B who has spun off to come get ball with pace, player B plays diagonal ball to player D, player D lays ball back to player C

- Sequence repeats

Rotation: A-B-C-D-A

Coaching Points

*move the ball as quickly as possible, mistakes are expected if they are pushing themselves to play faster

*play in 1 touch when possible

*play the ball with pace, overhit the ball

*check shoulder before and when the ball is on it's way to you

20 min run (15 mins)

parachute, weight bag run 20 mins