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Skills & Drills

OBJECTIVE:
Practice diving onto and cleanly retrieving a ball on the ground.

EQUIPMENT: One ball.

GROUP SIZE: Four players.

AREA

22m x 15m.

DRILL EXPLANATION:

  1. Attacking players play walking soccer, dribbling the ball and passing from the start line towards the goal-line.
  2. To score, one of them must dive on and execute a clean retrieve of the ball over the try-line. It cannot be the player who dribbled it over the line.
  3. Attacking players may not dribble the ball directly over the try-line from anywhere beyond the 10m 'FOUL LINE' - a line set-up 10m out from the try-line.
  4. Defender prevents a score by falling cleanly on the ball and regaining their feet, either in the field of play or over the try-line.
  5. If defender does this, they grubber kick the ball back towards the start line. Attackers regroup and the drill continues.
  6. Rotate players and keep the time short.

COACHING POINTS:

• Get to feet as quickly as possible
• Keep the ball close to your feet and under your head when dribbling
• Look for space to pass.
• Control!!!

VARIATIONS / PROGRESSION:

  1. Introduce points.
  2. Play with more players.
  3. Vary the type of passes used.

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