Keep Away With Support
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Description
•Start with three teams of equal numbers. The space should be rectangular in shape.
•Team ‘A’ starts as free target players on all sides of space.
•Teams ‘B’ and ‘C’ play a game of keep away.
•When your team has the ball, you can pass to any of your teammates, or to any of the free targets. Target players must give the ball back to the team who passed it to them. count the number of consecutive passes. Ten equals one goal. After a specified time period or after a goal, rotate teams. Let the scoring team make the decision whether to stay on or to become targets.
Variations:
-Targets have only one touch.
-field players must have 1, 2, or 3 touches, depending on skill level.
-Award one goal if player can wall pass with target players.
-Score a goal by passing to a target player, then completing a 1 touch pass to a different field player on the same team. This forces the attacking team to think ahead, moving off the ball. It also gets them thinking about 3 player combinations.
Coaching Points
• Encourage good pace and accuracy of passes.
• Pace should be quick enough so defenders cannot intercept, and comfortable for the receiver to control.
• Accuracy: balls should be played to teammates’ feet.
• Players should make decisions on how to utilize targets so that their tem keeps the ball.