Hi so I would use reward and celebrate route,  start at training get rid of the goal, and use target players each end, here are plenty of drills available to show this, amd only ever encourages a pass because that’s how you score a point! 
obviously when he does pass shout words of encouragement and praise him 

buy yourself off amazon a load of cheap medals, and tell the players and parents that MOM each game week you will be looking for that player that can assist or make a fine pass, every child even the one you are having trouble with wants a medal at 8 years of age.

If I’m honest I wouldn’t start the player that isn’t passing but show him what the others are doing, so he can watch the game and the others pass, then speak to him during gameplay explaining that to win MOM you want to see the great passes he can do! 

it’s your team and your volunteering your time and hours of it if the parents aren’t on board explain it’s a team game and working together as a team is more important than the goals going in as in a blink of an eye you will be 7v 7 9v9

But make sure you praise and celebrate at the right time 

Hi Nathan , 

This is very natural at this age- me and my ball. I don’t know what outcomes you/your club are looking for but the focus should be falling in love with the game and individual development. The focus on the individual stuff would be ball mastery and 1to1 dribbling along with social/psycho and ABC movement skills.

The dribbling should be encouraged across the piste. Focus on getting everyone confident on the ball first. This supports the players long term development. It will happen organically in your games. As you move o to 7/9 a side then introduce some focused passing games. 

You are clearly doing a lot right if this player is an example. Good dribbling and shooting whilst scanning for the keeper  

There is to much of a rush to get players passing which impacts on their development. This is normal driven by adults. 

Stick to your equal playing time for all if that’s what your club do. I agree the extrinsic reward of a pound per goal and the action you have taken. I don’t these things actually motivate the kids. 

Thank you for your message. I think you’re right passing will come in time especially as the pitches get bigger. It’s just all my other players pass and they get frustrated with the player because he never passes. I will keep at it more passing drills showing him passing creates chances and without chances we can’t score. 

I have players of mixed abilities I strongly believe in player development and equal playing time.

Hi Nathan,

Firstly, thank you for your contribution to kids in sport! Your County FA can provide you with some important context here, but essentially there is a pathway for player development that the FA have spent a long time defining. It is based on the cognitive and physiological learning and development capabilities of each age group, and these are often called "age-phase priorities".

For example, children are built to develop gross and fine motor skills when they are younger, and more complex decision making when they are older. It is why the youngest ages in grassroots are moving to the EPPP (Academy) format of 3v3. To develop players to their full potential, the focus is to target the windows of opportunity that biology provides through maturation. Therefore where basic passing is important to know as a concept, "ball mastery" is the priority for u8 - best delivered with principles that are focussed on 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3.

This is not glory, his actions are actually telling you what biology is telling him :)

Sometimes that's a hard sell with parents who want to see a team move the ball like classic Barca, and that's why I point you to your CFA to help give you the conviction to be clear with parents that it's in the childrens' best interests to work on their age-phase priorities.