Score Through Cones

Learning Outcomes

The aim is to keep possession in your team and try to score by passing the ball through the central cones to your teammate.

Description Of Activity

Emphasis is on 1st touch, keep the ball out of feet and in the direction of supporting player

• Communication is essential
• 1st touch with inside or outside of the foot
• Players encouraged to overlap to support and take players away
• Set up a square with two cones in the middle as a goal.
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• If a goal is scored the ball gets given to the opposition. If the ball goes out of the square it is given to the team that didn't knock it out.

Progressions: 

• Encourage players to increase the tempo
• Increase/decrease the marked area to promote a better 1st touch and quicker feet (smaller area) or pass and move (larger area)
• Increase / decrease the distance between the central cones

COOL DOWN/ CLOSURE Review Skill/Activity, stretching, and questions.

Equipment/Material Required

Marked area appropriate size for age, 6 cones, 1 ball between 4 players