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Games (2)
Ball Mastery (8)
Goalkeeper Practice (4)
Pass and Move (27)
Possession (3)
Passing Accuracy (15)
Finishing / Shooting (5)
Scanning (12)
Wing Play (2)
Defending (10)
Defensive Shape (1)
Pressing (11)
Tackling (9)
1 v 1 (10)
2 v 1 (1)
2 v 2 (1)
3 v 3 (4)
Dribbling (9)
Transitions (8)
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Progressive Rondo
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Layoff / Pivot Warmup
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Players move up the pitch in pairs, with 3 pivot players spreading the play to the opposite player in the pair.
Pivo...
Knocking Over Cone (V2)
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Essentially a race round two cones, with trying to knock over cones / block your opponent from knocking over cones.
4 Box Rondo
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Use this four box rondo to encourage the players to be alert, and confident when under pressure. The players start by pa...
Pivot & Winger Build Out
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Build out from the back. The defensive players have to play a bounce pass with a pivot in a central midfield position. T...
Defender Mirroring
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Defender has to mirror the position of the attacker, as they move around the outside of the square of cones.
1 v 1 Transition Box
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Two teams try and carry the ball in opposing directions. One team has possession and tries to carry the ball from one of...
Scanning shoulder (hold up cones)
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Main player stands in a square of cones.
Main player receives a ball. The player behind them holds up one of two colo...
Head Up Dribbling
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We do this with two different coloured cones rather than numbers of cones.
Variation: Add in killer, if you hold up bo...
Rondo into Possession Drill
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Start with a rondo. 6 or 7 around the outside of 2 defenders. Defenders hold bib.
Phase 2
Drill runs in front of a ...
Cone dribbling & shooting practice
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Dribble round cones away from goal, then turn around final cone, drive towards goal and finish past the keeper. No defen...
1 v 1 (numbered players)
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Kids number themselves 1 to 7
Played on a shortened pitch and the kids line up to the side of the goal
Coach calls out...
Basic 1 v 1s (touchdown)
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Pair up the players. They have to dribble past their opponent and stand on the ball at the opposing endzone / line of co...
2 v 1 with gates
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2 gates to start. pairs of attackers try to score past 1 defender and a keeper. Point is to emphasise passing when you h...
Short pitch 1 v 1 with feeders
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Short pitch, 1 v 1. 1 player starts with a ball. They can either dribble 1 v 1 and try to score.
OR if they want to, th...
Pressing vs Passing
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5 v 5 or 6 v 6... One side starts passing, with 1 presser from the other team. Every 3 passes another presser joins in f...
Table Football / Foosball
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Allowed to take a 1m ish deviation from a line of pancake cones.
Play through the lines. Can also have one floating ...
Passing Race
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Full pitch - see how quickly a team of 7 can pass it keeper, defender, both mids, winger, winger, striker...
Have a mat...
Long Distance Passing Practice
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Pairs of kids. One in a box. The other kid has to pass to the one in the box. Each completed pass they take one step bac...
Gauntlet
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A pair of two players try and get to the end of the gauntlet (a la Gladiators). Where one player in each section tries t...
Pancake rondo for movement
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A pentagon of pancakes with 1 pancake in the middle too. 4 players passing and one presser.
You're only allowed to p...
Scanning shoulder drill
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We've done this a couple of times.
Three receivers in the middle. Two pressers. The receiver has to scan to see if t...
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