Pass and Movement Warm-Up

Dimensions: 10 x 10 yard square with 2 players per cone, one soccer ball needed but keep a supply nearby to aid the flow of the drill.

How to: Players must pass to the player on their left and move to the back of the line to their right. Pass and don’t follow your pass. The sequence simulates moving to new space and creating good passing angles.

Coaching Points: Try to pass and move in one fluid motion. Make sure passes are accurate to allow the next player to control and play their pass. Move at game speed. This is recreating field situations and should be performed at full speed. Allow the players to play with the ball in their hand initially until they understand the rotation.

Pass & Movement Under Pressure

Dimensions: 10 x 10 yard square with 2 players per cone, one soccer ball needed but keep a supply nearby to aid the flow of the drill.

How to: Players must pass to the player on their left and move to the back of the line to their right. Pass and don’t follow your pass. The sequence simulates moving to new space and creating good passing angles. The player opposite the player with the ball must now make a run towards the player with the ball and apply passive pressure before joining the back of that line. The pass should not be played until you have drawn the pressuring player in close enough to bypass them with a pass away.

Coaching Points: Try to pass and move in one fluid motion. Make sure passes are accurate to allow the next player to control and play their pass. Move at game speed. This is recreating field situations and should be performed at full speed. Allow the players to play with the ball in their hand initially until they understand the rotation.

Manchester United Passing

Dimensions: 10 x 10 Yard square, 3 players occupy 3 of the 4 cones leaving one cone free. One player occupies the middle of the 4 cone square. Two players on the outside have a soccer ball each.

How to: One player outside passes the ball into the player in the middle. The player in the middle must find the player without a ball and pass off to them. The player who passed the ball must move to the available free cone. The other player with the ball then passes into the middle player and moves to the free cone. The player in the middle passes off to the free player.

Coaching Points: Stay alert and on your toes ready to receive a pass, be ready to move to a new position but try to predict the path of the next path, be careful not to interrupt play by running where the pass will be played.

Player in the middle must work hard to check their shoulders and remain positive when receiving the ball.

Remember that the pass position and open player position will be constantly changing; work hard to stay alert to changing surroundings as you should do in a
game.

Creating Passing Triangles

Dimensions: Set up two triangles 15 yards apart with two players outside one triangle and two players by the other, one player starts close to one triangle with a ball.

How to: Starting player makes a pass into the furthest triangle and one player by the triangle must move inside to collect it. The player that moves to collect the ball must then look to play a through pass into their team mate who started on the outside of their triangle. Each player follows their pass.

The pattern repeats from the collected through pass. This player looks to play a long pass into the opposite triangle to be collected by a team mate on the other side.

Coaching Points: Good accuracy and technique of passes should be focused on by players. Try to play a pass that you would like to receive. Good passes can make players move to the space they are supposed to be in, aim to play to good spaces rather than playing to feet to draw players into play.
Communication is important.