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Takeover For Shot Fragment In Center of Field

In practicing this fragment players become bored and lose focus if there are more than 3 to 5 players with a ball in a line at a cone 20 yards from the goal. If you have more than 6 players do the same exercise with cones goals on adjacent areas of the same practice field.

Setup
This fragment starts with a cone and a single player without the ball 10 meters (11 yards) from the goal. Their teammates, each with a ball, are in a line at a cone that is 30 meters (33 yards from the goal). There are no defenders or opponents until the basic movement pattern is mastered.

Action

• The first player in the line passes the ball to their teammate at the cone closest to the goal. 
• The receiving players first touch is a short touch back towards their teammate who passed to them. 
• There next touch is to dribble with their right foot towards the player who passed to them.
• The player passing instantly starts to run towards their teammate to whom they passes the ball.
• If their teammate with the ball is dribbling with their right foot then the player who passed their teammate with the ball must run so that their right foot is closest to the ball. (If their teammate is dribbling with their left foot then the passer must run so that their left foot is closest to the ball.)
• The teammate with the ball DOES NOT PASS THE BALL. As the teammate with the ball passes their teammate who passed to them they LEAVE THE BALL.
• The player running towards the goal touches the ball forward with a light touch and on their next touch they use their instep to drive the ball into the back of the net. (If they take more than two touches a goal doesn't count because this is a surprise shot and after two touches it's no longer a surprise to anyone on the field.)
• After shooting the player shooting passes the back to the line of their teammates and play continues. (If a goalkeeper is playing in goal for experience they can pass the ball back to the line of teammates.)

The goal is staying focuses and doing the exercise perfectly for just 10 minutes. With 4 players as shown below approximately 26 shots should be taken, an average of 6.5 quick shots per player. The emphasis in all fragment training should be to practice each as well as possible for a short time in multiple practices.


Too much repetition is boring, players lose focus and don't learn to do things well. If a player is not focused and does an exercise poorly 100 times they create a bad habit. Studies have shown it takes 1,300 perfect practice repetitions to correct a bad habit created with just 100 bad repetitions. 

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