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Gaining Ground

Games, Distribution, Handling. About 9 minutes.

Keepers tonight
KKeeper working SServer or team-mate AAttacker KWaiting
The goal kick
  1. Start two or three steps back, at an angle.
  2. Make the last step the long one.
  3. Plant foot beside the ball. Laces under the middle of it.
  4. Lean back a little and follow through high.
How it is set up

Setup. A long, narrow pitch: about 60 metres by 20, with an end line behind each team. Two teams, one in each half. One ball.

How it runs. Kick the ball as far into the other half as you can: from your hands, off the ground, or a half volley. Wherever the other team stops it is where they kick from. If they catch it cleanly before it bounces, they get three big steps forward first. If they drop it, they go three steps back. You win the point when your kick lands and stops beyond their end line.

Coaching points

  1. Catch it clean and you gain ground. So get under it early and take it in a W or into your chest.
  2. Kick for length and for the space, away from the other team's best catcher.
  3. Set the ball out of your feet before a kick off the ground, the same as a goal kick.
  4. Cover the pitch as a team: one up, one back.

Make it harder. Weaker foot only. Then throws only. Then a kick that goes out of the side of the pitch costs five steps.

With 4 keepers. Two against two.