Good warm up one touch passing drill
3 Players in a triangle on the cones as shown at A, B & C
1 player in the middle.
Player A passes ball to player in the middle who traps and passes the ball back then turns to player B and this repeats around each outside player.
Player in the middle simply keeps rotating to each outside player receiving a pass, trapping and return pass.
Rotate player in the middle with the outside players until all have had a go in the middle.
One touch pass
Trapping
Repetition drilling down control passing
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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