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Pass-and-Move Warm-Up

Raise the pulse and prime the first touch with passing on the move. Keep the pace easy, receive across the body while jogging, and pass gently to your partner's path.

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Duration
8 min
Total drill time
Players
2
Recommended
Pitch
20 × 30 m
Setup space
Level
Beginner
Skill required
Intensity
Low
Physical demand
Age band
U6-U8
Any format

Setup & instructions

In pairs, jog up a channel about 20 yards long, passing the ball between you on the move, then jog back and repeat. Keep the pace easy and the touch soft, and receive across your body so you can pass without stopping. Build gradually from a jog toward game pace over several lengths.

Setup time: 1 min

Tactical breakdown

Fifteen seconds is the realistic budget for explaining anything to a group of seven-year-olds, and every second beyond it is spent losing them. That constraint, rather than any technical consideration, is what should decide the warm-up you choose for young children, and it is why pairs with one ball beats almost every cleverer format available.

The organisation is the whole argument. No grid to mark out, no numbers to remember, no rotation to explain, no queue to form. Point at a partner, hand over a ball, start walking. A coach can have twenty children moving and passing before a more elaborate exercise has finished being described, and the children who would have drifted during the explanation are already involved.

Within that, the technical demands are deliberately small. Pass into your partner's path rather than behind him, so he does not have to stop. Take the first touch across the body while still moving. Keep the pace easy, because this is a warm-up and a pair of seven-year-olds given a ball will turn anything into a race within a minute.

That racing tendency is the failure mode to watch. The exercise stays a warm-up only while somebody is saying so, and the phrase that works is that we are getting warm, not winning anything.

Be honest about the ceiling. This teaches very little. What it does is start a session on time with everybody moving, which for a grassroots coach with twenty minutes of usable attention is worth more than a better drill nobody understands.

How to run this drill

  1. Pair them up and hand out one ball. No grid, no numbers, no rotation. The entire setup should take longer to walk to than to explain.
  2. Start moving before explaining anything. The children who drift do so during instructions. Getting them passing first and correcting later keeps the group with you.
  3. Pass into your partner's path. Behind him means he stops, and a warm-up where everybody keeps stopping is not raising anybody's temperature.
  4. Take the first touch across the body. On the far foot while still jogging. It keeps the pair moving and builds a habit that costs nothing to establish here.
  5. Say repeatedly that it is not a race. Two seven-year-olds with a ball will invent a competition within a minute, and the pace only stays easy while somebody says so.
  6. Accept that it teaches very little. The value is starting on time with everyone moving. For a coach with twenty minutes of attention that beats a better drill nobody follows.

Coaching focus

FROM SESSION PLAN

Coaching points

  • Easy pace: this is a warm-up, not a race
  • Soft first touch across the body, keep moving
  • Pass into your partner's path, not behind him
  • Heads up to keep the spacing even as you jog
  • Build the tempo gradually over the lengths

Common mistakes

  • Going too hard too early in the warm-up
  • Stopping to receive instead of taking it on the move
  • Passing behind the partner, breaking the rhythm
  • Uneven spacing, so the passes get stretched

Progressions & regressions

VARIATIONS

Progressions

  • Add a one-two before each forward pass
  • Increase the pace toward game speed over each length
  • Add a third player and rotate the middle

Regressions

  • Walk the first length to groove the timing
  • Widen the channel so the passes are simpler
  • Stand and pass before adding the movement
Equipment
Cones×4
Tactical principles
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Audience
U6-U8

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