Training plan: 2017s, Off the Ball

• A 20 m grid of sixteen 5 m squares (nine squares for 9 or fewer). Half the players are passers with a ball, the rest are receivers.
• Passers dribble anywhere with their heads up. Receivers keep moving to find a square with nobody else in it.
• Receivers call and show a hand. Pass only to a receiver who is alone in a square.
• After the pass, swap jobs: the passer looks for an empty square and the receiver dribbles. Play 60 seconds, rest, go again.

• Progress 1: The receiver's first touch must take the ball into a different square.
• Progress 2: First touch into a new square, and two defenders try to cut out passes.

For the 2017s: Add two defenders who try to cut out passes.

• A 10 m square with a disc on each corner. Three players on three corners, one with the ball. A fourth player stands in the middle in a bib.
• Pass along a side to the player on the next corner, never across the middle.
• When the ball moves, the player now across from it runs to the empty corner, next door to the ball.
• The middle player walks and blocks. If they touch the ball or it leaves, restart with a spare. Swap the middle player each minute.

• Progress 1: The middle player can run and try to win the ball.
• Progress 2: Two touches only: one to control, one to pass.

For the 2017s: 10 m squares, and the middle player may run and win the ball.