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Football Training - Improve Passing Skills

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Football training for passing – Control the ball out of the feet    Football training tip for passing – Head up and picture the pass Improve football training skills – Movement to support the passer

One of the most fundamental skills of playing football is the ability to pass the ball accurately, with the correct timing and weight of pass. As a coach you should look to provide lots of different football training drills and sessions to develop a wide range of passing skills. Football training practices that focus on improving passing techniques and skills across a range of distances, along with football training information to develop passing, support and movement should all be part of an ongoing football training programme.

Football training sessions that encourage the players to practice and improve the most appropriate passing techniques are vital. Before players can implement the correct passing technique, they will need to receive and control the ball and set it out of their feet, so they can get their head up, assess who they want to pass to and then employ the most appropriate passing technique.

Within these football training sessions there should also be a focus on the need for other players to provide support, movement and communication for the player on the ball.

Key Factors to improve passing in football training sessions:

• Create space to receive the ball
• Cushion the ball out of the feet, to be in a position to make the pass
• Observe target before passing
• Select the correct passing technique
• Approach the ball from the correct angle
• Strike through the correct part of the ball
• Use the correct part of the foot
• Follow kicking foot through to target
• Move to support the pass or the next player  

Try and ensure your football training plan develops sessions to include a series of progressive drills that along with conditioned coaching drills and opposed football training practices help to develop the skill of passing the ball.

Grassroots coaching have developed and designed a wide range of 3 - D animated football training drills specifically designed to demonstrate the key coaching factors to develop skills for passing:

• Football training sessions that are designed to improve the skill of passing the ball and challenge the players to test their decision making and application of the most appropriate passing technique. The football training drills are intended to ensure there is an objective at the end of the passing drill, such as keeping possession or progress to a crossing or shooting opportunity.
• The football training drills are designed to develop techniques, skills and games with a positive attitude to relevant passing skills in a fun and competitive manner.
• Football training practices that promote opposed passing skills and are linked to realistic progressions within the football training session that challenges the players to test their passing skills in opposed football training drills and sessions.

In the members area of the site there are over 250 computer game quality 3 - D animated football training drills and coaching sessions, with a chapter specifically dedicated to coaching and improving the skill of passing the ball. Using the same technology as the virtual football replays that appear on the Premier league and BBC football web sites, we have designed a wide variety of football training drills that allows the coach to interact with and understand completely the passing technique and skill requirements within the football training drills.

Imagine being able to view the animated football training drills from any number of angles, zoom in and out to see how the session evolves, slow the speed down and choose to have the key passing factors appear on the screen. It is totally interactive and delivers a unique online learning football training experience for all levels of coaches.