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Football: Through Ball in the Triangle

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DESCRIPTION

Set up a rectangle, 15x10m, with a player on each corner plus two defending players inside the grid with bibs on.

The outside players must try to stretch the two defenders in order to make space for the diagonal pass. In order to do this they can pass laterally and use dummy passes to send the defenders.

Players keep count of how many diagonal passes they have completed.

COACHING POINTS

To begin with the defending players are entirely passive, giving the passer a visual clue of where pressure will come from.

Later the defenders become semi-active, for example intercept the ball or apply pressure once the ball is received before becoming fully active all over the drill.

Players should rotate regularly - with the player who lost the ball swapping with the defender who made the interception.

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Passing and Receiving:

Split your players into three equal sized teams, with two teams starting inside the area and the third spread around the outside of the grid.

The team on the outside of the grid are neutral players. When they receive the ball they must pass back to a player on the same team that originally passed to them.

The two teams inside the area play a possession game. The challenge for each team is to score 10 (or more) consecutive passes to score a goal.

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Passing through area:

This is nice variation on your regualr circle passing warm up - and gets large groups of players working at the same time (no waiting in queues).

Players on the outside have to keep moving around the outside (not allowed to stand still)

While running around they have to try and score as many points as possible against the player in the middle by passing the ball through the area to their other players.

player losing the ball goes in the middle and the game starts again.

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Interceptor:

Four players with one ball can only be outside the square of cones. Only one defender is allowed inside the square. The players on the outside have to pass the ball through the square to score a goal. The ball must remain on the floor. The player in the middle tries to intercept the ball. Players should move the ball around at speed to move the defender out of position and create pass to pass across the square.

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