Three players positioned around penalty area. Goalie (take turns)
1. Red passes to blue, who controls and shoots.
2. Blue passes to Grey, who controls and shoots.
3. Grey passes to Blue, who controls and shoots.
4. Blue passes to red, who controls and shoots.
Rotate positions.
Physical: turning, moving into position to receive ball
Technical: control, accuracy, finishing from different positions/distance and perhaps with different feet, goalkeeping
Social: communication where they want ball passed to
Pyschological: anticipate where ball going to be and where goalie is
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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