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Goal Kicks

Distribution, Passing. 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. Balls on the six-yard line. Three target zones marked with cones: left, middle and right, 30 to 40 metres out. A keeper in each zone to collect and send them back.

How it runs. Five kicks each, then rotate. Before each kick the keeper says which zone they are aiming for. One point if it lands in the zone they named, nothing if it lands in another one. Second round is from the other foot, from closer in.

Coaching points

  1. Same run-up every time. Two or three steps back and a little to the side. Find yours and keep it.
  2. The last step is long, and the plant foot lands beside the ball and slightly behind it.
  3. Strike the bottom half of the ball with your laces, ankle locked, toes pointed down.
  4. Lean back slightly and follow through high towards the target. Your kicking foot finishes above your waist.

Make it harder. Smaller zones. Then a short option is added: the coach calls "short" or "long" as the keeper starts the run-up.

With 4 keepers. One kicking, three collecting in the zones.