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X Shaped Passing Warmup
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Follow your pass, alternating a pass straight in front of you, then a diagonal pass.
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Ball Stealing!
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4 players (or teams) in corners of a playing area. Place a load of balls in the middle. Teams / players must run and dri...
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Ronaldinho Square + Shot
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Ronaldinho square, followed by a shot on goal. Set this up as a simple line drill warmup. Any more than 6 or 7 players a...
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Follow Your Pass
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An X-Shaped setup, with a follow-your-pass format. The passes alternate being around the outside of the setup, then ...
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Up, Back, Through
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Warmup - Passing Both Feet + Dribbling
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A simple warmup - pass with both feet to a feeder, then turn and dribble through some cones.
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2 Box Rondo
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Set up two boxes; one large one, then a smaller box inside it. A team of 3 try to keep possession in the smaller box...
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Rondo
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A standard rondo. Check out the video for an intro to the drill.
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Diamond Passing + Overlapping Runs
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A simple warmup with two phases. First the players make their runs through the middle, then they adjust to run around th...
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Layoff Passing Warmup
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A simple passing warmup, with players moving up the pitch while passing to two stationary teammates.
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Simple 1 touch passing warmup
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Simple 1 touch passing warmup, using both feet.
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Diamond passing warmup
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Receive the first pass on a pancake, split out wide to receive the second pass on the half turn and pass to your other f...
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Tig gates
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Set up some cone gates. 1v1 player has to lose opponent and get through gates.
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1-2 Jinking Shooting Drill
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Simple jink, 1-2 then shoot.
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Cone bombs
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Two teams line up opposite each other in shooting zones. There are a line of cones in the middle. They have to pass at t...
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Coloured cones calling warmup
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Basically a relay race. When the players reach a box with different coloured cones in, the coach calls out the colour of...
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Progressive Rondo
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A rondo with 3 areas - progress the ball from one side to another.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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