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title: "Um Toque (One Touch)"
description: "Two strikers against a keeper, one touch each and no controlling: pass, pass, shoot. A goal is theirs, a miss is his, first to three."
canonical: https://hobbit.football/drills/um-toque
language: en
publisher: Hobbit (https://hobbit.football)
---

# Um Toque (One Touch)

> Two strikers against a keeper, one touch each and no controlling: pass, pass, shoot. A goal is theirs, a miss is his, first to three.

U9 to U14 · 3 to 3 players · 12 × 15 m · 12 min

Also called Um toque, toquinho mineiro, Toquinho Mineiro, Toquinho Paulista.

![Diagram of Um Toque (One Touch)](https://hobbit.football/api/game-library/diagram/um-toque)

## How to play

1. Groups of three at a small goal: two strikers and a keeper, in an area about 12 metres wide and 15 long. Every group plays at once.
2. The keeper rolls or throws the ball out. The strikers may touch it only once each time: no controlling touch, no second touch. They pass between them until one decides to shoot.
3. A shot without a pass first is allowed only when the keeper serves a high ball and it is struck before it lands.
4. A goal is a point to the strikers; a shot that misses the goal, or a second touch, is a point to the keeper. After a save the keeper restarts.
5. First to three wins. If the keeper wins, he swaps with the striker who missed last. If the strikers win, the keeper stays in for one more game, and after two games in goal he swaps anyway.

## The decision it trains

With no touch to set the ball, every touch is both a pass and a decision about the shot. The striker reads the keeper: if he has just shifted across for the last pass, this touch can be the shot; if he is set, one more pass moves him again. Many passes are lay-offs for the partner to finish, so their weight and angle decide the shot. The striker without the ball moves to the angle where a first-time finish is on.

## Make it harder or easier

- **Too hard:** allow two touches, but still no shot without a pass.
- **Too easy:** at least two passes before a shot, and shots only from behind a line 5 metres out.
- **Younger players:** a 4 metre goal, the keeper serves along the ground only, and the high-ball shot is left out.

## What to ask at the breaks

- "What told you this was the moment to shoot instead of passing again?"
- "Where did you stand so you could finish your partner's pass first time?"
- "Keeper, which passes made you move the most?"

## Where it comes from

A traditional Brazilian street game whose rules have one source: Alcides Scaglia's 2003 thesis. He watched boys of 10 to 12 play it on a sloping, half-grass pitch with wooden posts in a peripheral neighbourhood. He notes that the same game is played elsewhere with some different rules and other names, such as Toquinho Mineiro and Toquinho Paulista.

## Documented by

- Unicamp (Brazil): Um toque, Toquinho Mineiro, Toquinho Paulista
- CartaCapital (Brazil): toquinho mineiro

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