Hideki Matsubara

1. Introduction In the past, ball game instruction in physical education (PE) classes used to emphasize technical instruction for ball manipulation (Griffin et al., 1999; Kondoh et al., 2008; Goto & Seya, 2010; Adachi et al., 2013) . In some cases, technical skills were evaluated independently of the game, or instruction simply ended with students enjoying the game.

1. Introduction The movements of a player in a soccer game are generally classified into movements with and without the ball. A player with the ball requires a supporting receiver to be able to pass (Griffin et al., 1999). Terada (2018) also stated that the receiver needs to be the initiator of the pass, as it is too late to move after the receiver feels that the sender is going to pass.