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Set Pieces: to improve presing as a block by corvering their backs

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ACTION: two defending team switching a line of cones (Picture 4.)

COACH calls the letter and whoever is close pressures while the rest covers his/her back and the empty space. Increase the speed by calling letters faster.

Strikers wait behind coach passing and moving among each other

VARIATION 1: 2 defending and 1 attacking team

when the coach whistles strikers are allowed to score

Strikers get a set position in a cone and start passing the ball to each other while defenders apply passive pressure by pressing

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