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Movement and Return Pass Interchange Drill
Movement and Return Pass Interchange Drill
May 21, 2002 4 out of 5
Andrew Griffiths
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EXPLANATION:

1. X’s (players on edge of active area) have a ball each.

2. O’s (players inside the active area) move around, creating space. Each O then makes a run towards one of the X’s on the outside and demands a pass.

3. O receives and returns the pass to the same X he received it from.

4. Constant movement for 90 seconds. Rest and repeat 3 times rotate X’s into the middle.

Movement and Return Pass Interchange Drill
Movement and Return Pass Interchange Drill



VARIATIONS:

1. Players inside start with 2 touches per possession (one touch to receive, one touch to pass).

2. Progress to 1-touch (first-time) passing.

3. 1 move with the ball. On reception, the player inside moves the ball away from the original passer. Use deception, then bring the ball back and make the return pass.

4. Pass to a different player. On reception, look up and find another outside player without a ball. Move and pass to that player.


EVALUATION:

1. Work on speed of passes and clean, efficient receptions.

2. This drill helps to develop vision in traffic. Watch players’ awareness of what is going on around them in the zone.

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Arief
01-05-2003  7:31 pm 		Report this post
Hi, Andrew I don't quite understand the objective of the drill up there. Besides, if each of the O's players receive or possess the ball, what is X's players role.

I hope you could elaborate a bit further.

TQ
David
07-23-2003  6:14 pm 		Report this post
hi, i understand the drill, the X's role would be that of a person taking a free hit, while the O's are getting into space. The X's are improving their ability to read and hit to someone running to space, while the O's are improving their ability to create space and move to it. I was wondering though, does it matter how big the active area is.
Ray H
10-19-2003  10:02 am 		Report this post
Variation
 I'm trying this drill today with my college women's team. I think the role of the X's is a stationary role at first and then maybe we can transition them into an active role by having them move to a different X position. Communication is obviously very important here. If we are only doing 90 second intervals I don't think the X's being stationary is a big problem. For beginners it may be useful to only have 2 balls in play and build from there. This is a nice drill though. Thanks.
Coachie IRL
11-17-2004  3:24 am 		Report this post
Great drill to use particularily as a warm-up before larger passing drills. The players tend to get a lot out of it from communication to ball control and the pass back. My own players thought it was very good and really enjoyed it.

For my team the best variation was the one where on receiving the pass from a player, they turned and gave it to someone else on the outside. For each player on the inside, the outside players had numbers 1-4. So player A on the inside started facing her no. 1. Player B started facing her no. 1 and so on. Player B's no. 1 was player A's no .2. Player C's no. 1 was player A's no. 3. A little confusing but the players picked it up well.

I would call a number and they would move toward their respective passer, receive and then I would call another number and they would pass to that player. Good for feet movement, looking up, awareness, communication and ball control.
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