eg. U10s Core Skill: First Touch away from pressure
eg. goals were pegged down, area checked for hazards such as pot holes etc.
eg. Skill Intro – the exercise starts with a player on one side passing the ball to the player in the grid. They must move the ball with their first touch side-ways out of the grid and pass it back with their second touch
eg. whiteboard, verbal explanation etc.
eg. Defenders were initially passive to allow players to take touch away from pressure.
eg. One team attacked top and bottom of the pitch and the other team left to right. A goal was scored by passing into a target player who was stationed at the ends of the pitch.
eg. In the Skill Intro component the players had to receive a ball inside a box and they had to decide what way they had to take the ball out, this was based on where the pressure from the defender was coming from.
eg. I would use less passive defenders in the Skill Intro to allow/encourage players to take a good first touch forward into space.