Football: Pass, up and over!

3 players start with one ball between them. Players must pass and follow on the move.
Important that the pass is always in front of the receiver so the drill flows.

Player 2 backpedals in front of player 1. When player 1 passes to player 2 they must stop the ball and pass the ball back into the path of player 1.

Player 2 then runs backwards a further 5 metres before repeating the process. Once both players have reached the sideline they swap roles and the drill continues.

Set up a minimum of 4 pairs of cones in a straight line and get players into pairs, with a player from each pair stood behind the starting cones.

In this pairs passing exercise players are only allowed to use straight passes (no diagonal balls).

The first pass is played from player 1 (p1) to player 2 (p2). P1 then runs diagonally across the grid to receive the return pass from p2.

After passing the ball to p1, p2 must also run to the cone diagonally opposite to receive the next pass.

The drill continues in this way until players reach the final cone.

A three way pass and receive drill.

The first player passes straight to the red player and then runs out wide ready to receive the red player's return pass which should go through the gate.

Once they've received this pass through the gate the blue player plays a long ball (lofted or driven) to the player on the far cone who controls the ball and then dribbles through the slalom back to the start line.