Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Preseason Session #3 - Passing and Receiving (Start Time: 2022-04-21 18:30:00)

Ball Manipulation (10 mins)

Ball Manipulation

Set up a grid (depends on the size of the group). 

- Each player with a ball

- Grid spaced depending on numbers of players. Ensure the space forces players to play close enough to one another to ensure decision making while moving in the space.

- inside outside favorite foot/least favorite foot

- inside outside both feet

- sole outside both feet

- laces laces fake take

- laces laces circle take

- foundation

- toe taps

- sole laces

- inside outside roll

- ouside inside roll

- add in difference dribbling technique

- add in different turns

- add in different dragging

Passing and Receiving (10 mins)

The objective of the Practice:

This practice is designed to improve the technical ability of the “Push Pass” with an emphasis on“pace and accuracy”.

Field Preparation:

Area 10 x 20 yards. 

Six players. 

Two balls. 

Cones.

Coaching Points:

Position four players in a grid 10 yards by 20 yards. Place a server with a ball at both sides of the grid. Each server passes the ball to the two receivers to pass back "first time" to the server. The players in the center should work at full speed and concentrate on quality first touch passing. 

If a working player turns to a server for a pass, and the server is retrieving the ball, the player must continue to run and turn to receive the ball from the opposite server. The player should not wait for a server to retrieve the ball.

Create a competition between players and see who can get the most passes in 60 seconds.

The first player to reach 20 good passes wins. Only passes made on the ground are countable.

Progression

Add a defender to apply passive pressure on the middle players.