• To Improve short passing technique and long passing technique.
• Understand the concept of short-short-long.
• Understand pass and move.

We can use this drill to practice both passing technique and also the concept of short-short-long.  That is once a team has played a couple of passes in one area of the field, it time to move the ball to another area of the field with a longer pass.  The reason for this is as the ball is played short distances a number of time the defending team is able to close down the attacking team and compact the play and increase their chances of winning the ball.

The first pass is a long ball.  The player making the pass follows it and receives a two touch (to start) pass back from player 2.  Player 1 then returns the pass back to player 2 who repeats the sequence in the opposite direction towards the third player. 

1. Follow the sequence.
2. Try and keep the pace of play (ball speed) high.
3. Weight of pass, longer ball should be struck harder.
4. Pass and move immediately.

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