Soccer Drills Goalkeeper Drills Kids Soccer Drills Soccer Dribbling Drills Soccer Passing Drills Soccer Shooting Drills

If you want to learn EXACTLY how to...

1. Improve soccer skills and produce quality players... in less than 29 days even if you're a soccer coach dummy!...
   
   
2. Make training MORE FUN and avoid players in losing interest and getting bored...
   
   
3. Develop teamwork, win more games and get them to play as a team -- and with more confidence...
   
   
4. Implement and teach a variety of fun soccer drills to increase motivation...
   
   
5. Teach soccer drills properly, develop a better understanding and knowledge of the game and have them apply it during the competition...

Kids Soccer Drills

Run and Shoot

Have the players in two lines by the center circle. Have a player from one line start moving towards the net and feed him/her a ball from beside the net. They have to dribble toward the net and shoot.



Normally I recommend that you avoid drills with line-ups, however this one works because the kids move quickly through the line. You should have lots of parents/assistant coaches to help collect balls and keep kids moving through the lines.

Cone Soccer

Play 1 v 1 with one player against one player, each has a cone as a goal. This is every player; nobody stands and watches. The object is to hit the cone; there are no boundary lines, etc. This is nothing but 1 v 1 dribbling with a little bit of long passing/shooting, etc. They figure out very quickly that they have to beat their man and nothing else will do. After about five minutes, everybody switches to somebody they haven't played yet.



This way nobody is hopelessly outmatched against the same player for very long. They hate to stop doing this until about forty minutes or so when their tongues are hanging to the ground (it's also a good conditioner). This also teaches individual initiative - nobody else is going to stop the opponent; nobody else is going to score the goal.

Strong Sides

The team concept is best taught with unbalanced drills (i.e., 2 v 1, and 3 v 2, etc.)-- this is true for players of all ages, but especially with younger players. This will make the benefit of team play obvious and it will "let the game be the teacher".



Start with 2 v 1 drills, then when the players clearly recognize the value of combining to beat one player-- either to beat and score or to maintain possession-- consider a move to 3 v 2 (vary the amount of space the drills are carried out in).