First Touch
Pressure Rebound Wall Touch
Repeat high-volume first touch reps
First Touch
Receiving
Ball Mastery
Pressure Rebound Wall Touch is a 12-minute first touch drill for 1-8 players, suitable for Under 9 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
Technical Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Small Group
Rebound Boards
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Under Pressure
Duration
12 min
Players
1-8
Pitch size
12 x 8 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Pressure Rebound Wall Touch — Marked area · 12 x 8 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 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
- Dashed lines = zones / thirds
- Ball
- Rebound board
- C = coach / server
- 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 12 x 8 yards area.
- 2Position a recovering defender behind each working player, starting two yards back.
- 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 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
- -Cushion the ball into the direction you want to travel
- -Set the feet before the ball returns
- -Both feet get equal reps
- -Feel the pressure with your body, take the touch away from the defender
Common mistakes
- -Letting the ball bounce twice
- -Standing too close to the board
- -Facing your own goal and getting trapped by the press
Where this drill fits
- More football first touch drills
- More football receiving drills
- More football ball mastery drills
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for U12s
- football drills for U14s
- football drills for U16s
- Football session plans built around this theme