Sprint back: recovery after losing it
When a team loses the ball, players must sprint back behind a recovery line before the opponents reach it. Teaches recovery runs as a habit.
Your assistant coach: turn this drill into a full session, plan the weeks around it and tell me how it went.
Set-up
- Game on a pitch with a recovery line 15 metres in front of each goal.
- Two teams.
Equipment: 2 goals, cones, bibs, balls
How it works
- Play a normal game.
- Lose it: everyone sprints back behind your recovery line.
- Opponents score double if they score before you've all recovered.
Coaching points
- React immediately when the ball is lost.
- Recover on the inside line, towards the goal.
- Then turn and face the ball.
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Make it easier
- Only three players must recover
Make it harder
- Recovery line further back
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