First Touch Triangles Practice

  • Technical
  • U4 to U6
  • 1–1 players
  • First Touch
  • Passing
First Touch Triangles Practice

Setup

You will require: 1 ball / 4 cones, The cones need to be different colors, The player is positioned in the middle of a triangle with different color cones, the coach/player B is around 6 meters in front of the triangle

How it works

Coach calls a color and then plays a pass to the Player in the triangle, the player needs to direct the ball towards that cone on their first touch, player then dribbles around the cone and pass back to Coach,

Coaching points

  • Scan
  • Inside of foot
  • Firm pass
  • First touch
  • Open body
  • Half turn
  • Back foot
  • Front foot
  • Ball out of feet
  • Big touch space

Progressions

progression: Add two more cones of new colors to increase the number of potential directions regression: Two touch passing in the center before running around the cone without the ball