Changing Squares

Pitch: Lay out an even grid of at least 5 by 5 squares with flat marker discs or flat markers.

Equipment: Marker discs or flat markers for the grid, 1 ball per team, bibs in two colours.

Players: Two teams, which spread out across the grid mixed in together. Each team has its own ball.

• The players play exclusively within their own team, not against each other.
• Each player occupies one square; no square may be occupied twice.
• The players pass the ball to one another.
• After every pass the passer has to change square.
• A player may not receive the ball in the square that was occupied when the ball was passed away, but has to receive it in an adjacent square.
• After the first touch the player dribbles with the ball into an adjoining square and then passes it on to a team-mate.
• The squares may also be changed at any time without any action on the ball.
• The aim is for all players to keep moving constantly, to look for free spaces and to prevent a square from being occupied twice by communicating.

Note: Drill idea by Eddie Plickat.