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LESSON

60 Shooting practice
This week, Ajax Cape Towns Craig Rosslee shows us a
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drill for your team to practise their shooting which involves
combination passing between players and first time finish-
ing. First time striking is an important skill needed in soc- xiv
cer, make sure your players can execute this skill. x
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FRANKLYN CALE
Organizing the drill:
Diagram A
Place a goalkeeper in goal.
Place player xi, xii, xiii and xiv
according to diagram A.
Place the rest of the players in a
line as shown in diagram A.
Practising the drill:
Diagram B
The drill starts off with player xiv
passing the ball to player xiii,
who immediately plays the ball
back to player xiv.
Player xiv then plays a first time
ball to player xii who returns the
pass to player xiv who has a first
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time shot at goal. shooting player, you can vary the x B
Player xiv can either play the ball difficulty of the shot while
to player xii or player xi (either increasing the strikers ability to x G xii
side of the goal) while doing the identify how he needs to position
drill. This gives the shooting play- himself to get off a first time shot xiv
er a chance to use both feet in at goal.
the drill when shooting from the
left or right side of the big box. Coachs note:
Make sure the strikers hit the tar- x
Diagram C
get when shooting from such x
After the shot, player xiv returns x
close range.
to the back of the line to await
From close range, all it requires C
his turn once again. Then the
is a side foot shot in most
next player in line steps up to DIAGRAM KEY:
instances. Encourage strikers to
restart the drill. Ball
pass the ball into the net rather
Variation of the drill: than trying to blast the ball into Movement of ball
By chipping the ball to the the net. Movement of player
W Players
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