Kieran Smith 7v7 Directional Game
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Explosive First Touch Practice 3
Play a 1-2 with the wall, pivot and let the ball run across your body. Receive on the back foot and explode with 1 big touch through the gates before shooting with laces into the goal.
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3 Cone Passing
This passing practice involves just 3 cones set 5 yards away from a wall. A series of exercises involving passing and receiving off the wall around and between the cones. A quality first touch is needed to get across the cones and make sure you use both feet. Increase or decrease the distance of the cones from the wall to make it more or less difficult.
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No touch turn to shoot
As your playing partner passes, move towards the ball and big fake to kick allowing the ball to run across your body. Explode and shoot to score. Disguise is the key here, the bigger the fake the better. Work off both feet.
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Receive on back foot to shoot
As your playing partner passes, move towards the ball and big fake to receive allowing the ball to run across your body collecting on the back foot. Explode and shoot to score. Work off both feet.
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Rooney to shoot
As your playing partner passes, drive towards the ball stepping in front of the mannequin and receive on the back foot. Pivot, spin and touch into space. Explode and shoot to score. Work off both feet.
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Bergkamp turn to shoot
As your playing partner passes, move towards the ball stepping front of the defender. Jab the lower side of the ball with the outside of the foot around the defender. Remember to spin and peel away the opposite way to the ball. Explode and shoot to score. The key here is to create spin on the ball so your first touch goes behind the defender. Work off both feet.
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Van Persie turn to shoot
As your playing partner passes, stand in front of the mannequin side on in a surfing position to receive the ball. Receive with the outside of the front foot and spin in the same direction as the ball. Explode and shoot to score. Remember to make yourself long as your first touch should be as far away from the defender as possible. Work off both feet.
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