Player on red cone takes the ball down the baseline while person on blue cone plays recovery defense. GK comes out on the baseline to tackle person on ball and double teams the red player on ball with the blue defender
- timing - reading speed/control of ball carrier - no space between the gks stick and defenders stick.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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