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Receiving the back-pass and opening up (u10)

Introduce receiving the back-pass with an oriented first touch — the base of playing with the feet, in a domain almost empty at the youngest ages.

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Load

minutes
9
Intensity
Low
Sets and reps
2 × 8

Microcycle days it fits

MD-4, MD-3

Each bar’s height is that day’s dive ceiling.

Setup

Goalkeepers
1
server
1
outfield player
1

Space: 14 × 10 m

Equipment: Balls, Cones

The coach serves and manages the breaks.

2 steps

The server passes to the goalkeeper, who controls and plays to a wide outlet. Start with a frontal pass; progress to a pass from one side, forcing the body to open on the control.

Exercise sequence

Coaching points

  • The first touch takes the ball away from imagined pressure, to the free side, not to the feet.
  • Open the body before the ball arrives, to see the field and not end up facing away.
  • Look up before receiving, so the outlet is already known — the head lifts before the foot.
  • Firm, clean controlling surface; no unnecessary touches that delay the decision.

Progressions

  1. Pass the ball from one side, forcing the body to open.
  2. Add a second outlet target.

Regressions

  1. Always a slow frontal pass.
  2. Allow two controlling touches.

Sources · 2

  1. Book«Coaching the Complete Goalkeeper» — metodologia holandesa
  2. Curriculum«Lifetime Development of a Goalkeeper», US Youth Soccer