
The ball will start with the coach who will begin play by passing to a player on a team and it will be the rules and conditions a normal match will undertake. coaching points: stop the game when you see a part of play happen that you can coach on, for example a bad touch, a players positioning on the pitch or a player recovering from attacking the other team.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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