Divide group up into small groups and rotate through all the roles. Server: plays balls into the feet of the attacker and stays in active support while attacker possess the ball. Received the ball from attacker and looks to play in again. Received ball from defender, sequence is over. Attacker: Received the ball from server and tries to score between the cones. Defender: Tries to prevent attacker from scoring. Play ends when defencer plays the ball to the server or when the defender forces the attacker out of the grid. Scoring: 1 pt to def for a pass back 3 pts to att for a goal, to def for forcing the player out of the grid 5 pts to def playing the ball back to server. Keep track of wins losses. most wins doesn have to do fitness.
Touch tight defensive stance (sit down) patience (calm down) When to tackle/intervene
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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