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  • Groups 5 
  • Balls 
  • Cones 

1. Chanel Fix 

5 players Attack Defenders lined up one behind eachother. 

They must use footwork to step to a side of the sausage and then give a pass before running into/past the defender. 

COACHING POINTS

  • Footwork 
  • Communciation 
  • Squaring up. 
  • Transfer of pass. 
  • Decison making to dummy if the defender moves 

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Catch and pass channel:

  • 8+ players 
  • Ball 
  • Players stand at equal distance away at differnt points along the grid.
  • One working player runs in the middle of the channel. 
  • The players on the outside pass the ball into the running player.
  • The Working player must complete 2 sets of passing - 1 run off each hand. 

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Clockwork Passing | Warm Up

Clockwork Passing:

  • 4 + groups 
  • Balls 

All players have a ball, start by passing the ball once left then twice right, then 3 times left etc. 

if the ball goes down you start again. 

Winning team is the team who competes the most amount of passes without the ball going down. 

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Continuous passing drill | Handling

Continuous passing drill:

  • Groups 9+ 
  • Ball
  • Cones

This could be perfect fro a warm up drill. 

Player with the ball runs to first cone and performs a pull back pass to the second receiver then onto the 3rd.

When the ball reaches the third the 3rd reciver runs to the cone and performs a pull back pass back inside the the 2nd reciver in the next line. 

This is continuus and should be short and fast pase.

Handling
Channel fix - Handling Drill | Passing

Channel fix - Handling Drill:

  • Groups 5 
  • Balls 
  • Cones 
  • Sausages.

1. Chanel Fix 

  • Attack sausages lined up one behind eachother. 
  • they must use footwork to step to a side of the sausage and then give a pass before running into/past it.
  • Attack inside shoulder of the bag to fix defender. 

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