First Touch
1-to-1 First Touch Wall Work
Take a directional first touch under time pressure
First Touch
Receiving
Passing
1-to-1 First Touch Wall Work is a 15-minute first touch drill for 1-2 players, suitable for Under 7 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.
Back to drill libraryFirst Touch
Receiving
Passing
Technical Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
1-to-1
Rebound Boards
Foundation Phase
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Individual Session
Duration
15 min
Players
1-2
Pitch size
10 x 8 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
1-to-1 First Touch Wall Work — Marked area · 10 x 8 yards
Step 1 of 3Player passes into the board and controls the return into a named cone.
- 1. Player passes into the board and controls the return into a named cone.
- 2. Coach calls the colour as the ball rebounds so the touch is a decision.
- 3. Twenty reps each side, then two-touch tempo rounds.
- Cones mark the area
- Ball
- Rebound board
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Take a directional first touch under time pressure
- -Repeat hundreds of quality contacts alone
- -Improve scanning before the ball arrives
Setup
- 1Rebound board or solid wall with a cone gate five yards away.
- 2Two colour cones behind the player as touch targets.
- 3One ball, spare ball to the side.
Coaching instructions
- 1Player passes into the board and controls the return into a named cone.
- 2Coach calls the colour as the ball rebounds so the touch is a decision.
- 3Twenty reps each side, then two-touch tempo rounds.
Coaching points
- -Open the body before the ball arrives
- -Cushion the first touch out of the feet into space
- -Weight the pass into the board so the return is usable
- -Head up on the touch, not down at the ball
Common mistakes
- -Stopping the ball dead under the body
- -Square body shape with no vision
- -Passing too softly to get a rebound