The players wil split into two teams The blue team will be the attacking team and the red defending. The aim of the blue team is to score goals past the goal keeper, however one of the four strikers has to receive the ball inside the circle before they are allowed to score a goal. The red teams objective is to prevent goals and to turn the ball over, once they have turned the ball over, its their job to score inbetween the black cones.
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