Soccer Passing

1. Skill Cues: • Shoulders and hips should be • square to the target • - Use the inside of the kicking foot • - Contact center of the ball • Planted foot should point towards • target • - Keep ankle locked • - Slightly bend knees • - Follow through SoccerPassing Learning Activity: - Get with a partner. Stand ten feet apart. Practice passing the ball to each other. Use both your dominant and less dominant foot.   - Get in your sport education teams. Stand in a circle with about ten feet in between the person you are standing directly across from. Practice passing the ball to each other using your dominant foot. Call out the person’s name before you pass to them.

2. Skill Refinement: Active & Passive Defender - Get into groups of three. Assign one person to start as the defender. The other two people should stand about fifteen feet apart. Practice passing to each other using your dominant foot. The defender should stand in between the two people and passively defend the ball. The defender should just act as a barrier and not in fact try to get the ball away. Switch defenders after a minute. - Get into groups of three. Assign one person to start as the defender. The other two people should stand about fifteen feet apart. Practice passing to each other using your dominant foot. The defender should stand in between the two people and actively defend the ball. The defender should try to take the ball away from the two offenders by trapping it with their foot. Switch defenders after a minute. • Skill Challenge: • Get in your sport education teams. Stand in a circle with about fifteen feet in between you and the person standing directly across from you. One person from each team will be switched to a different team and act as an active defender. The people in the circle will practice passing the ball to each other. The defender is to try to get the ball away from the offenders by trapping the ball during the pass. The team is to count how many passes they get in a row before the defender traps the ball. Each team is to try to get the highest number of passes. • Keep up with the great work!