Soccer drills for technique dribbling
- Player A begins slalom with ball between hats.
- At 2nd hat, player B begins slalom without ball through hats.
- Player C begins running motion around cones.
- Players A and B attack.
- Player C and the goalkeeper defend.
- Finishing on goal.
Passing: A becomes C, B becomes K, K becomes A and C becomes B.
Duration: 8 minutes, while waiting their turn juggling the ball.
- Players dribble through the square with ball on foot for 3 minutes.
- Active rest of 2 minutes.
- Players dribble through the square with ball on foot for 3 minutes.
During 1 and 3, different sub-tasks can be given on a whistle:
- stop & go
- sit on ball
- put ball in the air
- ball back and forth between feet
Size of square can be adjusted according to level of group: the higher level, the smaller the space.
- Players Red and Blue leave together from starting point with ball on foot to inside cones.
- At first cone ball on outside hand -on side of cone-.
- They walk shoulder to shoulder through the cones.
- They try to keep their ball on the hand without it falling.
- Speed does not play a role, coordination and body control do.
- After last cone walk back with ball on foot.
- Rejoin your row.
Field 15 x 15 meters.
Goal 5 x 2 with 5 cones: outer 2 = 5 pt, next to them = 3 pt, middle = 1 pt
Goal 5 x 2 with 5 cones: outer 2 = 5 pt, next to them = 3 pt, middle = 1 pt
- Player A starts next to own goal and dribbles ball in through gate.
- Diagonal pass to player B.
- Player B takes on plays through to player C.
- Player C turns left or right away from defender or cone in his back.
- Player C shoots at goal and tries to score as high as possible.
Whoever gets the most points after several rounds of this exercise wins!
Passing through: A to B, B to C, C takes ball and joins on other side of goal. There the same exercise in mirror version.
Passing through: A to B, B to C, C takes ball and joins on other side of goal. There the same exercise in mirror version.
Skills: dribbling, passing, taking on and passing, turning away from defender, targeted kicking, finding corners.
- 5v5
- Players face each other next to pots of A.
- Distances 5 meters between A and B, 8 meters between both B's.
Exercise:
Player blue and red leave simultaneously with ball on foot from A to B, stop ball there, walk to opposite B and take ball from colleague there with foot to pots A.
Player blue and red leave simultaneously with ball on foot from A to B, stop ball there, walk to opposite B and take ball from colleague there with foot to pots A.
Variant 1:
- Player blue leaves with ball on foot, at the same time player red leaves without ball.
- At potty B blue passes to red who accepts and passes back to blue.
- Blue pulls ball under him, turns around and dribbles back to A.
- Player red turns around from B and runs to A.
- Then same, but player red with ball and player blue without. Alternate each time.
Variation 2:
- Both players dribble with ball on foot to each other, cut each other off and run on to opposite A.
- Change feet each time, so first e.g. pass on left and next time on right, etc.
- 5v5
- Players face each other next to pots of A.
- Distances 5 meters between A and B, 8 meters between both B's.
Exercise:
Player blue and red leave simultaneously with ball on foot from A to B, stop ball there, walk to opposite B and take ball from colleague there with foot to pots A.
Player blue and red leave simultaneously with ball on foot from A to B, stop ball there, walk to opposite B and take ball from colleague there with foot to pots A.
Variant 1:
- Player blue leaves with ball on foot, at the same time player red leaves without ball.
- At potty B blue passes to red who accepts and passes back to blue.
- Blue pulls ball under him, turns around and dribbles back to A.
- Player red turns around from B and runs to A.
- Then same, but player red with ball and player blue without. Alternate each time.
Variation 2:
- Both players dribble with ball on foot to each other, cut each other off and run on to opposite A.
- Change feet each time, so first e.g. pass on left and next time on right, etc.
- Goals at 8 meters from center -cone-.
- Players start simultaneously from the 4 goals, ball at foot to about 2 to 3 meters from the opposite goal and then finish.
- They recover their ball and run around the cone to the right of the goal, to the next one and rejoin there.
Variation 1:
- Players dribble up to the cone in the middle, hold ball still under foot and pull it under then turn and finish themselves into their departure goal.
- They recover their ball and run around the cone to the right of the goal, to the next one and reconnect there.
Variation 2:
- From goals 1 and 3 the main exercise and from 2 and 4 the variant 1.
- Ball recovery and passing as previous variants.
See video
- Put two small goals on the edge of center circle facing each other.
- Make 2 teams with the same number of players.
- These line up next to the goals.
- The players choose a number from 1 to 5. With more than 10 players more numbers.
- The coach passes the ball to the center and calls out a number.
- From each team, the players with the called number play one against one on the goals.
- After a while they choose a new number.
- S1 plays ball to S2.
- S2 spins out and does a one-two with S3 while looking back at S1.
- S3 does speed ladder to place S3.
- S1 runs through to S2, S2 to S3.
- S2 is central and asks ball to S1.
- S1 plays ball in.
- S2 spins out and does double pass to S3 who asks for ball with pre-action.
- S3 takes ball and does slalom with turn on each side and passes with ball to back pot.
- S1 gives pass to S2.
- S2 dribbles to cones, makes 1x sharp angle, gives pass to S3.
- S3 runs free, gets ball and finishes on goal.
- With fixed goalkeeper then it stays, without goalkeeper then trapper takes the place of goalkeeper.
- Goalkeeper goes rebound and handler takes ball and slides on, S1 goes dribbling.
- Exercise can be done in two directions.
