Football: Dealing with the Backpass

Deal with the back pass with composure and skill to be an outlet for an under pressure defence and clear your lines. But it’s not always as simple as it seems… work on coping with even the trickiest of passes!

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• Goalkeeper steps away from cone comes through the gate receives a ball into hands
• Returns to server then gets a low shot into dive close to body
• Get into set position initially then step forward into low dive to save before cones in advance of initial gate

Notes:

• Get the step in if required
• If serve close too the body collapse legs and get hands to the ball in front of the body
• Dive forward this called 'Attacking the dive'

 

• Set up 2 squares beside each ther with a goalkeeper in each square.
• 2 servers set up opposite each square with a ball each.
• Goalkeepers to start at the back of their square and come to the front of the square to drop back again and receive a ball passed along the ground from the server opposite. 
• One touch on the ball to take the ball out of the side of the square and then pass the ball diagonally, to the other server. 
• Goalkeepers to then switch over to the other square. 
• Repeat several times before switching over the goalkeepers working and servers.

• Set up 3 mini goals or small gates marked out with cones facing towards a goal.
• Have 3 players behind each mini goal.
• The ball is played into the Goalkeeper from various areas on the pitch.
• As the ball is passed back to the Goalkeeper 2 of the players step in front of their mini goal, leaving 1 minigoal free for the Goalkeeper to play into.
• The player who's mini goal is played into can take a shot if the Goalkeeper successfully hits the goal.
• If the ball travels past the mini goal and is missed then the player takes a shot with that ball which becomes live.  

Starting on the middle cone the keeper moves out to their right to catch the first feed.

After getting back to their feet and rolling the ball back out they side-step back towards the middle cone, ready to dive and catch the next rolled ball from the second feeder.