Receiving
Check And Receive Circuit: 1-to-1 Session
Create separation before receiving
Receiving
First Touch
Passing
Check And Receive Circuit: 1-to-1 Session is a 12-minute receiving drill for 1-2 players, suitable for Under 5 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, poles. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
Back to drill libraryReceiving
First Touch
Passing
Technical Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
1-to-1
Agility Kit
Foundation Phase
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Individual Development
Small Group
Duration
12 min
Players
1-2
Pitch size
20 x 12 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Check And Receive Circuit: 1-to-1 Session — Marked area · 20 x 12 yards
Step 1 of 4Player checks away from the pole then receives on the half turn.
- 1. Player checks away from the pole then receives on the half turn.
- 2. Play the ball to the opposite server and repeat.
- 3. Eight reps then rotate.
- 4. Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
- Cones mark the area
- Ball
- Poles to dribble / run through
- C = coach / server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Create separation before receiving
- -Take a positive first touch
- -Receive on the half turn
Setup
- 1Two servers on opposite cones twenty yards apart.
- 2A pole in the middle acting as a marker.
- 3Working player between the servers.
Coaching instructions
- 1Player checks away from the pole then receives on the half turn.
- 2Play the ball to the opposite server and repeat.
- 3Eight reps then rotate.
- 4Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
Coaching points
- -Sharp check away before showing
- -Open the body to see both servers
- -First touch away from the marker
- -Detailed feedback after every rep
- -Quality of contact over volume
Common mistakes
- -Receiving square on
- -No movement before the pass
- -Touch too close to the pole