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Games (6)
Ball Mastery (12)
Goalkeeper Practice (5)
Pass and Move (35)
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Passing Accuracy (17)
Finishing / Shooting (7)
Scanning (12)
Wing Play (5)
Defending (10)
Defensive Shape (1)
Pressing (14)
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1 v 1 (11)
2 v 1 (1)
2 v 2 (1)
3 v 3 (4)
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Pass and move pancakes
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2 teams line up on matching sets of pancakes. After each pass, the passing player must move to a new pancake. First to 2...
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...
Endzone Game - 2 Directions Version
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Teams have to get the ball from one side to the other. Basically the endzone game but with two teams going in different ...
Spanish Corners
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Similar to the 4 corners game but you can only score in the two attacking corners and there's a safety player who is alw...
4 Corners Game
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4 vs 4 or similar. Teams get a point by passing to a player in one of the 4 corners.
Variations:
- Only allowed to ...
4v4 quadrants with feeders
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Neutral feeders around the outside. 4 vs 4 in the middle. Teams try and maintain position by using the neutral players, ...
Touchdown football (endzones)
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Small sided game. 3 vs 3 (or similar numbers). Pass to a teammate in the endzone and touch down on the ball to score a p...
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...
4 vs 3 Endzone Game
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2 endzones with a player in each. Two teams of players in the middle - one team is the possession team and one is the pr...
Stadium Game
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Two teams. Pair players up. 1 ball per pair. The goal of the game (for each individual players) is to finish the allotte...
Possession Clock
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Possession clock drill. Keep possession for 1 minute. Once a team has kept possession for 1 minute they can score in eit...
1 vs 1 Shoot then Defend
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Pressing Drill with Scoring Gate
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Two teams of 4 or 5. One pivot per team, who moves along the line of pancake cones.
Team 1 tries to make 5 passes, b...
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...
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