Soccer: The Diagonal Pass

Get your team thinking on the pitch, rather than playing as individuals. Give them the opportunity to develop their basic principles with small sided games in this skill session.

For the first part of this drill put your team into 3s and give them one ball per group.

Staying inside the grid players must pass between themselves, never standing still, working their way all around the area.

Once your players have worked like this for a few minutes you can now add a tackling element into this drill.

Players must continue to work the ball around the grid, constantly moving but they must now also try to kick the other team's balls out of the area.

The last team in possession of their own ball is the winner.

Players are in pairs.
Player 2 starts with the ball, they dribble the ball in a diagonal line to the opposite cone.
Player 1 make a diagonal run towards the opposite cone.
As the player with the ball reaches the cone they play a reverse ball to their partner.

Three players stand behind 1 corner of the grid each. The ball is played to a player on one of the cones.

The ball cannot be passed diagonally. The spare player must move to give the ball carrier a second passing option.

Place 4 goals at the corners of the fields.
3 players per side.
Players must one-two combine, before putting the ball through the goal.
No more than 2 touches before passing through the goal.