Warm-up: Players with footballs dribbling around area - pass to teammate and follow. Receiver must take touch past oncoming player.
Progression, after taking touch past player must playa forward pass into gate to team mate.
Main activity.
End zone activity (4v4) teams get a point passing to a team mate in the end zone. (attacking team can't have 2 players in end zone at 1 time)
Introduce rule about only passing backwards off 1-touch. to encourage forward passing.
Progression:
Add two mini-goals, teams must get into end zone before shooting. If they can play forward and score under 10 seconds they get a bonus point.
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