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One
of the most effective passing techniques/tactics for soccer is the
give-and-go pass. The give-and-go (or wall pass) is basic to the games of
basketball, hockey as well as soccer. In simple terms, the player with the
football passes to their teammate, who, at the beginning, is stationary.
The receiving player is, in essence, the wall.
After a brief demonstration of the wall pass using stationary players
it's time to add player
movement. I would suggest for the younger levels that you start this drill
with a coach acting as the wall to build success. Timing the run of the
player is critical and takes a lot of demonstration and a lot of practice.
The basic setup is shown below:
Player passes to the coach and immediately makes his run to the second
cone on his side. The coach times the run so that the ball and the player
arrive at the same time. If there are two coaches repeat the process.
Otherwise have the players pull a move after they receive the ball and
rejoin the line at the end.
Coaching
Points
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Stress that the run is
immediate. Do not watch the pass since once it has left your foot, there
is nothing your eyes can do about affecting the flight of the ball
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Stress that the ball
must be played with the proper weight so that it gets there, but doesn’t
get there with so much pace that it cannot be handled
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Stress that the ball
should be played to the foot that is open to the field. In the
illustration above this would be the coach’s left foot. In that way the
coach does not have to chop the ball across his body.
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Stress receiving the
ball on the foot open to the field. In the illustration above that would
be the receiving player’s right foot.
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Switch sides often so
that both feet are used by the wall player and by the receiving player
Progressions
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Once the timing aspect of
the drill is understood and the players have achieved some measure of
technical proficiency receiving the ball "on the fly", it is time to
make a player the wall.
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Start the drill in the
same manner and work both feet.
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Switch the wall player
often
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Add movement of the wall player as shown below.
After wall player makes his pass he makes a run to get the wall pass back
from whom he passed it to. A second player steps in as the wall. This
minimizes standing around.
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Add a passive defender so
that the players can see where the pass has to go and how the run
affects the defender.. Generally the pass goes past the defender’s front
and the run is made behind his back
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Allow the
defenders to attempt to intercept the pass. However since the defender
"knows" the drill you now have to add movement on the player making the
pass so that the defender has to concentrate not only on the pass but on
the fact that the ball handler might dribble past them.
Practice the wall pass with this
drill
give 'n' go
in the box = GOAL!! (Real Player clip)
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