Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Talking through the pass

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Key Factors

This practice is all about technique and talking. The actions of player B are dictated by players A & C.

There are 4 calls in this particular practice:

• Time 
• Man On
• Turn
• Two's

The Mechanics here also focus on Control & Turning. 

For Control we look at:

• Being on your toes
• Keeping your eye on the ball
• Getting in line with the ball
• Decide and present surface of control towards the ball (here it's all feet) 
• Relaxing on impact

With the turn, the Mechanics are:

• Keeping your eye on the ball
• Decision making with your change of direction
• Being on your toes, so your surface contact is feint
• Keeping your head up
• Keeping a low centre of gravity for balance
• The change of direction
• Acceleration into space

Organisation

1: TIME: Player A will pass the ball in to player B, who will turn on the spot and play a pass to player C

2: MAN ON: Player A will pass the ball into player B, who will play a pass straight back to player A. player A will then pass back to player B, who will turn and pass to player C

3: TURN: Player A will pass the ball into player B, who will turn and dribble the ball to player C, play a quick 1-2, before dribbling back to his starting position, before making a pass back to player A

4: TWO'S: Player A will pass the ball into player B, who will pass the ball straight back to player A. Player A will now play a long pass around player B and into player C. 

Once each activity is played 3 time, so that all 3 players rotate. Once all 3 players have rotated within their activity, they move onto the next.