PASSING WITH THE INSIDE OF THE FOOT II

Practice 1

Three players, one ball

(A) and (B) around 10 metres apart, (C) between them.

The practice is for (A) to pass to (B) initially through the legs of (C) (see diagram 1).
(B) controls and plays it back through the legs of (C) back to (A).


Diagram 1



Once this has been mastered (A) and (B) must them move around (keeping the same distance) from each other, still continuing with the practice. (See diagram 2) (C) keeps in the middle facing which ever player has the ball. So if (A) moves to (A1) then (B) moves to (B1) as in diagram (2).



Diagram 2

Practice 2

To progress this, players pass then move, and alternate places with each other, with (C) (or which ever player is in the middle) always on the move. (See diagram 3).

So (A) passes through (C) to (B), and as soon as he delivers the ball, (A) and (C) change places; (B) takes one touch to control the ball then passes back through (A) to (C) (B) then immediately changes places with (A), and so on.


Diagram 3

Practice 3

To progress more players can be used, again working on the practice of playing the ball through the legs of the centre man to another player.

But this time the players have to move sharply as the centre man will head towards one of the other players once the ball has passed through him.

So in diagram (4): (A) plays through (C) to (B). It is then up to (C) to select who to replace (in diagram 4 he replaces (E).



It is then up to (E) to move to replace the original passer of the ball (in this case (A)).

(B) after taking one touch then continues the practice by passing through (A) to (E) and so there is progression with all 5 passing and moving.