First Touch
Overload Rebound Wall Touch
Repeat high-volume first touch reps
First Touch
Receiving
Ball Mastery
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Overload Rebound Wall Touch is a 14-minute first touch drill for 1-8 players, suitable for Under 5 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, rebound boards. 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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Receiving
Ball Mastery
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Intermediate
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Small Group
Rebound Boards
Foundation Phase
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Overload
Duration
14 min
Players
1-8
Pitch size
18 x 14 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Overload Rebound Wall Touch — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · 18 x 14 yards
Step 1 of 5Player strikes the board and controls the return with a named surface.
- 1. Player strikes the board and controls the return with a named surface.
- 2. Every fifth rep the return must be controlled and turned away from the board.
- 3. Alternate feet each set.
- 4. The spare player joins whichever side has the ball, so the attack always works with a plus-one.
- 5. A goal or completed end action counts double if the spare player touched the ball in the build-up.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- S = server
- Ball
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Shooter becomes the next server
- Rebound board
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Repeat high-volume first touch reps
- -Control returns arriving at different heights and speeds
- -Work solo or one-to-one with a coach
Setup
- 1A rebound board with a working zone marked in front of it in a 18 x 14 yards area.
- 2Split the group so the attacking side always has one spare player, and park the spare bibs on the halfway cone.
- 3Two balls per player and a rebound board.
Coaching instructions
- 1Player strikes the board and controls the return with a named surface.
- 2Every fifth rep the return must be controlled and turned away from the board.
- 3Alternate feet each set.
- 4The spare player joins whichever side has the ball, so the attack always works with a plus-one.
- 5A goal or completed end action counts double if the spare player touched the ball in the build-up.
Coaching points
- -Cushion the ball into the direction you want to travel
- -Set the feet before the ball returns
- -Both feet get equal reps
- -Find the free player quickly before the defence shuffles across
Common mistakes
- -Letting the ball bounce twice
- -Standing too close to the board
- -Spare player standing still instead of offering an angle
Where this drill fits
- More football first touch drills
- More football receiving drills
- More football ball mastery drills
- football drills for U8s
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for U12s
- football drills for U14s
- football drills for U16s
- football drills for beginners
- Football session plans built around this theme