Adding Movement and Awareness to Basic Passing

Basic passing exercises like the one below are great for focusing on the technical aspects of passing the ball but it's easy to get stuck in a rut of doing the same progressions over and over.

I was playing with different ways to add movement as well as force the players to think about where they were running and why. The first thing did was to ask the receiving player to control the ball with the inside of the foot it came to and take it across their body past the cone. The passing player followed their pass but ran down the opposite side from where the receive controlled the ball.

Player 3 moved into a position to receive the ball from Player 2. Player 3's first touch should be with the outside foot, across their body and back to the middle of the cones. Player 2 follows their pass to join the end of the line.

As this continues you'll see the passing player run to the open side and the next player in line moving to provide a passing option.

Finding new ways to get your players thinking about their movement in relation to their team mates, while still focusing on the quality of their pass, is the best way to transfer skills from the training ground into effective play in the next game.

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