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Spreading Out To Maintain & Exploit Space

The document describes a practice drill for passing and maintaining spacing on a football field. The drill involves splitting players into two teams that pass the ball through a gridded area to targets in split end zones, with the aim of passing from end to end as many times as possible. The document provides details on how to set up the gridded area, rules for players' movement and passing, and coaching points around awareness, variety of passes, invention, quick passing sequences, and first touch.

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Spreading Out To Maintain & Exploit Space

The document describes a practice drill for passing and maintaining spacing on a football field. The drill involves splitting players into two teams that pass the ball through a gridded area to targets in split end zones, with the aim of passing from end to end as many times as possible. The document provides details on how to set up the gridded area, rules for players' movement and passing, and coaching points around awareness, variety of passes, invention, quick passing sequences, and first touch.

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Spreading out to

‘in balance’
Attacking when opponents are
maintain & exploit space
Practice organisation
• Area 70x30yds, marked in 10x10yd grids, as illustrated.
• 16 players, 2 balls.
• 2
 groups of 6 players in main gridded area, plus
4 Target players - 1 in each sector of the split 70 yds
end zones.
• P
 ractice starts with: each team has a ball & the objective is to pass
through main area to eventually play unopposed into a T, moving in T T
the end zone.
• 1
 player only allowed in each grid, in main gridded area,
to maintain spacing.

30 yds
• I f 2 players arrive in the same grid, they may only
play 1 touch & move-off.
• I n end zones: T’s move in & out of split sectors to create space in
which to receive passes.
• Play resumes in opposite direction, from T’s. T T

Detail
• Awareness of other players’ positions & movements.
• Variations in types & speed of passes to supply team-mates.
• Encourage invention & unusual passing skills.

12-16 years
Age group
• Encourage quick sequences of 1 touch passing if possible.
• U
 nderstanding where 1st. touch may be directed according to space
& time available.
• Simple progression for this practice is:
- Set challenge for each team to play from end to
end as many times as possible in 1/2 minutes (coach/players
decide) - to encourage speedy
but accurate passing & support play.

Key coaching points - Timing & nature of movement off ball to


support passer.
• Challenges for players include:
- Understanding where to move-to next.
- Varying passes & engaging team mates through MF areas.
- Strikers timing their movement to link-in
- Maintaining good spacing to provide passing options. with advancing support players.

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