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Develop good passing and calling habits by working in two different widths. Players have to adjust their running lines and their passing strengths.
CHALLENGE
This activity prevents players setting early and failing to adjust to the situation quickly. They will have to hold their runs, call and keep looking ahead.
SET UP
A 30m x 20m box in a sideways “H” shape set out with coloured cones, three balls.
HOW TO DO IT
- Put a group of four at each end of a “fat” box. Call out two colours and the first group pick up the ball at the front corner of the first coloured box and pass it in the normal way so the last player puts the ball down in the far back corner (see picture 1). They then repeat for the next called coloured box - “thin” if appropriate.
- Once through and to the far end the other group go back, mirroring the previous group. So if the call was “Red, Blue” for the first group, it is now “Blue, Red” for the second group (see picture 2). The second group complete, turn and you call out a new combination of colours.
- Develop by having two defenders in each of the boxes called. Those defenders cannot move forward until the ball is passed from the ground and only pressurise the middle two passers (see picture 3).
technique
- Hands out to receive the pass.
- Following through to the target.
- Hips square when receiving the pass.
- Call for the ball.
- Call which boxes to attack
- One player goes to the ball and the others realign according to the width
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- Once through the first “called” box, the ball is put down on the corner and the players work from the second ball
- The ball is put down on the far corner and the other group now return through the same boxes, passing and returning the balls to their original starting points
- Repeat, but calling out a different set of boxes
- Develop by having two defenders run to each box
- Make the defenders only put pressure on the middle two players. They shouldn’t come forward until the first pass is made in the box they are defending
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