Football: Throw and Volley

The session works on the goalkeeper's hand position to promote a clean and effective catch. We also look at the position of the goalkeeper in relation to the ball and the server.

With one ball between two players have to try and pass the ball through the goals 10 times, without making a mistake.

You can run this as a competition between pairs or simply use it as a challenge to get players to focus on their passing accuracy.

4 players have to try and play the ball from one side of the area to the other by passing it between or around the 2 players in the middle area. 5 interceptions, then swap.

Players start on the touchline and side-step quickly inside the pitch towards the blue cone.

When they reach the cone the red players should be ready to throw the ball to either the player's heads or chests.

Depending on the feed players should either head the ball straight back to the feeder's feet or control and then play the return pass.

The red player then plays a wide pass for the blue player to run onto. Once the blue player has run onto the pass they join the back of the feeders' line and the red player runs to the start line.

• GKs work in pairs. GK working has a ball in hand out in front of the body using the W grip.
• The other GK Volleys the ball into the body of GK1 who drops the ball and uses the correct technique to catch the ball.