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Develop passing over different distances while fixing a defender. The support player has to adjust their angle of run and call for the ball too.
CHALLENGE
Initially, the activity works on the basics of passing different distances. The passer has to sight the receiver as well as listening to the call. Adjust the distances and pressure as your players improve.
SET UP
A 10m x 1m channel, cones to the side of the midpoint of the channel.
HOW TO DO IT
- A feeder pops the ball to the passer. The passer runs forward until they reach the pass zone, which is 2m in front of a static defender. In the meantime, you call which gap the receiver must run to (see picture 1).
- The passer passes in the “pass zone” to the receiver who sprints through the gap (see picture 2).
- Develop by having two defenders come forward after the feed is made. The passer can only pass in the pass zone (meaning they have to run fast to reach it). The other defender has to deliberately go for one of the two closest gaps. The support player runs into the spare space, calling for the ball as he does (see picture 3).
technique
- Two hands on the middle of the ball.
- Follow through the hands to the target.
- Listen for the call.
- Reach for the ball as a receiver.
- Call out a gap for the receiver to run towards
- A feeder pops the ball to the passer
Related Files
- The passer can only pass in the pass zone, which is 2m in front of a static defender
- The receiver aims to take the ball running forward
- Develop by having the two defenders running forward
- The outside defender makes a deliberate effort to go for one of the gaps, forcing the receiver to aim for the other gap
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