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Tactical Problem: Moving the ball back and forth the playing area
Skill development: Ball handling / realignment

Teaching Points: 

Tactic

  • keeping the ball alive, moving the ball back and forth the playing area, from side to side
Skill
  • review of all handling skills
  • realignment after the pass

 
Organizational Points: 
  • three groups of four lined up horizontally 
  • one group spaced fifteen meters apart facing other two groups
  • only one ball needed 
Drill:
  • same drill as in previous lessons
  • ball passed along the group of four to the end and then moved back to the original ball carrier (i.e. 1 person to start drill with ball will end drill with ball)
  • concentrate on realigning and proper positioning to receive the returning pass
  • give ball to opposite line