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Football: Calling Turns

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Players carry out the commands from the coach. The commands are as follows:

Turn
Dive left
Dive right

They must react as quickly as possible.

COACHING POINTS

Players should be light on their toes, ready to react quickly to the coach's command.

Mix things up here, don't let the commands become predictable and feel free to add some more commands of your own to really test players' concentration (turn right, turn left etc).

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Catching Slalom:

Working in twos, with one ball, the keeper must catch the feed into their stomach, throw it back and then backtrack around each pole.

After they've run around the pole, taking small and speedy steps they move out ready to take the next feed.

Goalkeeping

Circle Throws:

The keeper works their way around the circle and must react to three different types of feed which they must try to catch/stop and then return the feeder.

The first feed is a simple chest-height catch.

After this first stop the keeper then jogs around two cones before sharply changing direction and diving low to catch the second feed.

After this the keeper quickly gets back to their feet and jogs around the next cone before then diving to catch the third feed.

Goalkeeping

1 V 1 - 3 Goal Game:

Two players line up on opposite sides of a square.

The attacking player dribbles the ball towards the centre before then attempting to stop the ball between one of the goals.

The goal nearest to the defender's starting point is worth 10 points as it is the hardest goal to stop the ball in. The middle goal is worth 5 and the top goal only 1 point.

Defending

1-2 and cross:

Set up as shown.

Player 1 starts with the ball in the middle of the field and plays a 1-2 pass with player 2 before passing out wide to player 3.

At this point, players 1 and 2 run towards the penalty area, ready to receive a cross, while one of the defenders goes out wide to put pressure on the crosser.

Player 3 will cross the ball into the box where players 1 and 2 will try to beat the defender to it and score.

Crossing and Finishing

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