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Passing Warm up - Rondo

A practice designed to warm up players and improve technical skills and focus for session ahead.

Key objectives

Quality of pass – pace, weight and accuracy
Individual movement to receive pass, open body shape
Individual skills to get out of tight spaces
Decision making

Organisation

Area: 10 x 10 metres
8v2, 7v2, 6v2, 5v2
Two players in the middle can hold bibs in their hands.
When defender wins the ball or ball goes outside the area, the player that made the mistake and the player that passed to him switches with the defenders in the middle or the player that made the mistake switches with the defender that has been in the middle the longest
Play 1 or 2 touch, depending on quality of players

Session details

Attacking
Defending

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