Question of the Week: How to Develop Better Accuracy on Long Passes
Long passes are rare and often risky. So, you want to make them as accurate as possible. But how do you do this? The answer is simple: focused 🧠repetition.
Developing accuracy all comes down to focused repetition in your individual training. The long pass advances from a short pass. Accuracy🎯 is of great importance so you must practice your technique.
What is the Long Pass?
Soccer players use long passes to switch up the play. This could be for a quick counterattack, to open the field from left to right, or to play directly down the middle. A long pass covers more ground in a short amount of time.⌚
Some teams refer to the long pass as a driven pass.
How To Develop Accuracy
For the long pass, you must be aware of your body position as well as where your teammate is that you want to play the to. Remember, you want to try not to have the ball ⚽bounce before it reaches your teammate. A bouncing ball is harder to control.
To strike an accurate and effective long pass, players should try using the laces of their foot 🦶while striking the bottom half of the ball. Follow through with your hips aiming where your target is.
If there is a goal 🥅on the field you train on, start anywhere between 10-30 yards away from the goal. Roll the ball forward slowly and practice striking the ball into the back of the net in the air.
Try not to add too much sideways spin to the ball.⚽ Instead, try to generate slight backspin on the ball as it travels in a straight line.
Once you begin to build confidence at a short range, try moving back further and still trying to hit the back of the net in the air.
If you have a partner,🙋♀️ stand about 30 yards away from each other and practice playing the ball to each other in the air. Try to see if you can complete your passes to your partner without making your teammate move.
Repetition is key.🔑
The more you practice long passes, the more confident 💪you will become.
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