
With this session, for the first game which will take up 10 minutes. The game is a basic 3 v 1 challange, the players attack will in theory have 2 extra players and the aim is to get passed the one defender and to try put the ball into the net. if the defender wins the ball the attackers will have to do 5 star jumps- this allows the defender a rest. defenders will change every 2-3 minutes
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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