Pass and receive across the star. Open the body to receive the angled pass, take a clean first touch, and weight the longer pass accurately to the far point.
Five players on the points of a pentagon pass across the star to the non-adjacent player, tracing a pentagram. Emphasise an open body to receive, a clean first touch, and scanning for the next point before the ball arrives. Play both directions. Add pass-and-follow to the point you passed to as a progression.
Passing across a shape and passing around it are different skills, and the star exists to train the harder one. Around the outside of a pentagon, each pass is short and square, the receiver is directly in front, and the body barely has to adjust. Across it, tracing a pentagram, every pass is longer, arrives on a diagonal, and demands that the receiver open up before it gets there.
That diagonal is what makes it worth running. Almost every meaningful pass in a match arrives at an angle rather than straight down the line of the receiver's body, and a player who has only practised square passes will control an angled ball with the wrong foot and lose the half second that mattered.
Opening the body is therefore the coaching point rather than the passing technique. Turning the hips before the ball arrives means the receiver can see the pass coming and the next point of the star at the same time, and the first touch can be taken across the body into the direction of travel. A player square to the passer has to take a touch, then turn, then look, which is three actions where there should be one.
Weight is the second problem and it grows with the distance. A pass across the star travels noticeably further than one around it, so the same striking action that worked in a tighter drill will now leave the ball short. Firm, along the ground, and to the correct foot.
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