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Soccer: 3 vs 1 Keep ball

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DESCRIPTION

Straight forward passing and moving drill with only two touches on the ball.

The blue players off the ball can only receive the ball at one of the four cones in each corner of the area and the red player is trying to intercept the ball.

COACHING POINTS

Progressions:

1. Defender walks through the activity, then progresses to passive and finally active resistance.

2. Allow players to move away from the corners and play freely in the area.

The blue players should keep moving so that the blue player in possession always has two options to choose between, one of which is probably already cut off by the red player.

Players should disguise their intentions so that they can wrong foot the defender.

Make sure players are calling for the ball when they are in space to receive the pass.

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Each teams has 3 players and one goal to defend and one to attack.

The ball is not allowed to stop or go over head height.

By passing and dribbling the ball players must try to score three goals - first to three wins!

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1, 2, 3 Pass and Move

There are two triangles in this drill, both using the same top point player (player 5).

Players in the top triangle pass in an anti-clockwise direction and players in the lower triangle pass in a clock-wise direction.

Both pairs of players must use the middle player as their third passing option.

Passing and Receiving

1st touch shooting

Encouraging 1st time shooting by using the correct technique to take the shot early and finish from close range.

Get your knee over the ball and use the pace of the ball to generate the power. By trying to strike the ball too hard, the likelihoood is the accuracy will be poor.

Blue 1 plays ball into area and clue 2 moves in to shoot 1st time. Blue 2 goes to replace blue 1 and blue 1 runs around working area to take blue 2s place.

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Triangle passing

Set out a triangle with 3 cones all 1 meter apart.

Player 1 passes the ball to player 2 through the area of the triangle.

Player 2 has to control the ball and touch it to the side before playing a return pass.

Players must make sure that when they make a return pass that it is never played through the same side of the triangle that they have just received the ball through.

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