Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Passing Technique

Passing Gates (15 mins)

Split the players into groups of three and play a game for a minute where you score a point by completing a pass through a gate. Add on patterns as the game continues. Below are different ways that you can score a point. Choose any one of these patterns and have the players do this for one minute before choosing a new pattern.

Score a point by:

- passing through a gate

- passing through a gate with one touch

- wall passing through a gate

- completing the pass to the third team mate with one touch

- passing through the gate and receiving the ball back through the same gate with one touch

Small sided scrimmage + neutrals (20 mins)

Set up an area 40 wide x 30 long. Split into three teams

-4v4 to small goals. Blue vs. White with black as neutral.

-2 black players work up and down the sidelines. Everyone else plays as usual.

-Neutral players may not score

-First team to two points wins, losers become the new neutrals.