15 min
8-16 players
Conditioning
Agility in 1v1 with ball and colored signals (U18)
A small agility exercise that will engage your players' cognitive abilities while keeping a significant portion of the drill with the ball.
Description
In the center of a zone of about 20x20m, place 2 cones facing each other and arrange 2 teams of 5 players at each cone. Then place 6 colored gates symmetrically (see animation).
The exercise proceeds as follows:
1. The first 2 players start a sequence of one-touch play passes quickly.
2. At you...
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