Dribbling
Pressure Gate Hunt Dribble
Encourage travelling with the ball into space
Dribbling
Ball Mastery
Speed & Agility
Pressure Gate Hunt Dribble is a 12-minute dribbling drill for 4-20 players, suitable for Under 9 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
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Ball Mastery
Speed & Agility
Skill Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Full Squad
Minimal Equipment
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Under Pressure
Duration
12 min
Players
4-20
Pitch size
20 x 20 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Pressure Gate Hunt Dribble — Cone maze — dribble in traffic · 20 x 20 yards
Step 1 of 5Players dribble through as many different gates as possible in 90 seconds.
- 1. Players dribble through as many different gates as possible in 90 seconds.
- 2. The same gate cannot be used twice in a row.
- 3. Between rounds players share the route that worked best.
- 4. The defender is released the moment the ball leaves the server's foot.
- 5. The working player scores by completing the action before pressure arrives; the defender scores by blocking it.
- Cones mark the area
- Scattered cones = obstacles / targets
- Ball
- C = coach / server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Encourage travelling with the ball into space
- -Develop scanning while dribbling
- -Reward quick changes of direction
Setup
- 1Ten two-yard gates scattered randomly in a 20 x 20 yards area.
- 2Position a recovering defender behind each working player, starting two yards back.
- 3A ball each, bibs for any defenders.
Coaching instructions
- 1Players dribble through as many different gates as possible in 90 seconds.
- 2The same gate cannot be used twice in a row.
- 3Between rounds players share the route that worked best.
- 4The defender is released the moment the ball leaves the server's foot.
- 5The working player scores by completing the action before pressure arrives; the defender scores by blocking it.
Coaching points
- -Look up to pick the next free gate
- -Touch into the gate, not at it
- -Change speed after each gate
- -Feel the pressure with your body, take the touch away from the defender
Common mistakes
- -Following the player in front
- -Big touches through crowded gates
- -Facing your own goal and getting trapped by the press
Where this drill fits
- More football dribbling drills
- More football ball mastery drills
- More football speed & agility drills
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for U12s
- football drills for U14s
- football drills for U16s
- Football session plans built around this theme