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Pass or dribble?

Decision-making is crucial – here, the choice is whether to keep the ball or play it to a team-mate.

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Warm-up: Passing with purpose

Encourage players to be adventurous and create angles in this three-part session plan.

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Practice: Staying in control

Challenge your players’ first touch with this variable and opposed session, split into three parts.

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Warm-up: Staying in control

Challenge your players’ first touch with this variable and opposed session, split into three parts.

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Small-sided game: Turn on the switch

Use this small-sided game to create gaps in the defence by switching play and then making the killer pass

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Warm up: Turn on the switch

Use this three-part session to create gaps in the defence by switching play and then making the killer pass.

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Goalkeepers learn to play out

Players are encouraged to be patient in the build up and to use the goalkeeper as an extra player to pass to.

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Warm-up: The right combination

Develop touch, movement and passing in tight areas to break into space and create.

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Keep hold of the ball

A foundation-phase practice designed to teach staying in possession when under pressure.

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Passing to create

This unopposed practice helps players develop up-back-through passing patterns to create.

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Pass around and across

Encourages a variety of passes and demonstrates how movement can create options.

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Developing soccer skills: passing

Moritz Kossmann discusses the secret language of transferring the ball with Steph Fairbairn.

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What is passing?

Carl Wild takes novice coaches on a deep dive into the various ways to get the ball to team-mates and how to successfully teach the ...

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Understanding passing patterns

What are passing patterns? How and when should they be used? And how can you coach them? Find out in this mini overview

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Small-sided game: Transition at speed

This three-part practice encourages players to work as a unit and switch the point of attack.

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Practice: Transition at speed

This practice encourages players to work as a unit and switch the point of attack.

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Warm up: Transition at speed

This practice encourages players to work as a unit and switch the point of attack.

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Practice: Passing to break from midfield

With limited passes before a shot must be made, players learn how to break from midfield with pace and precision

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Training passing motor skills in four simple steps

USSF A license coach and trained psychologist Michael Curless guides you through the process of learning the motor skills required for the ...

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Third-man running

This session develops players’ awareness and movement for third-man combinations. By DAVID ALTENDORFF

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Third-man running - 2

This session develops players’ awareness and movement for third-man combinations. By DAVID ALTENDORFF

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Fast with the pass

Fast passing games help teams to keep the ball when they play in matches. This unopposed game helps develop first touch, movement and ...

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Go forward or switch

Players need to be able to create space to either play forward or switch play.

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Close attacking passes

Often in crowded areas of the pitch teams lose the ball by trying to hold on to it or with misplaced passes. Short passing in areas like ...

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