Soccerexercises

  • Put pawns as shown
  • Each pawn has a player
  • Bounce the ball according to the arrows
  • Turn, the last player dribbles back to starting position



drawing Pass kick Manchester City exercise
  • White player passes to the goalkeeper
  • Goalkeeper cuts to the left and passes to the red player
  • Red player dribbles in and shoots
drawing Pass and shoot exercise
  • The exercise was mainly done to learn to move on after a pass.
  • So pass and walk on.
  • In combination with crosses and finishing makes it a nice exercise for the boys (7-8 years) and useful as a match situation (also without resistance).
  • 1 Player red passes to blue player and runs towards the corner.
  • 2 Player blue rebounds in the depth towards the corner.
  • 3 Player red passes to incoming player blue.
  • Player blue finishes off the ball.

Points of attention

  • Good pass in.
  • Get in the ball before the handover.
  • Handover in the deep.
  • Do not run in too early when finishing.
drawing Handball > send deep > cross > finish
  • Pass and kick exercise
  • In which the income of the ball is obligatory
  • And running away from your opponent(s).

drawing Pass and kick
  • Emphasises switching from ball possession to ball loss and vice versa
  • When losing the ball, the closest player to the ball puts pressure on the other players as quickly as possible, making the field small
  • When recovering the ball, try to get to the free player as quickly as possible, if possible go forward even better, open up the field.


drawing Play Shape
  • Sharp pass to the right foot of your shift mat
  • Control
  • Play in two strokes

drawing Pass exercise
  • 3 exercises around pawns.
    1. Slalom around cones, keep the ball close and take small steps with right foot inside foot and outside around cones
    2. Slalom around cones two-legged. First go to the left with the  inside of right foot and take over the outside of left foot,
  • Go to the right with inside left foot, and take over with outside left foot

  • Place pawns as in 2nd series:
  • Dribble tightly around them; keep the ball close to you, control is most important

  • In a square (box)
    • Speed is important, keep the ball with you,
  • 2 variants as in picture.
  • Around the box to the left and to the right, and in a cross.




drawing Dribble exercise 4 (Box and pawns)
  • 4 players on position as on picture.
  • Notice:
    • With player 2 2 players in line.
  • Player 1 plays player 2.
  • Player 2 turns and passes to wing player 3 right in front.
  • Player 3 near the 16 meter width pass on the left for player 4.
  • Player 4 passes the ball wide and player 1 finishes.
  • Player 1 to player 2, player 2 to player 3.
  • Player 3 to player 4, player 4 takes the ball and goes to the front of the line.
drawing Finishing exercise with pass, spin, and handball laying wide
  • Duration:
    • +-15 min
  • Distance:
    • Width 4 mtr length white to blue 4 mtr and blue to blue 2 mtr.
  • Execution:
    • 2 red players try to outplay the red player in the other section.
    • When A plays the ball to the other square, player B joins the other square and the exercise continues.
    • After 2 minutes the player in the middle changes to another player.
drawing Position game triangle
  • Duration:
    • 20 min
  • Distance:
    • Width per section 6 mtr length 8 mtr.
  • Objective:
    • Search for the attacker in possession of the ball and pass to him so that he can score.
    • The four players are only allowed to move in their own box to protect the passing line.
    • The 2 attackers are free to move around the four squares but behind the defenders.
    • When the ball is in the possession of the attacker, the defender can try to conquer it in that square.
    • If scoring is too easy, the attackers are obliged to play at least once before they can score.
    • When there are more players in the box, you have to add more players.
    • If there is an uneven number of players, 1 team has more attackers but then the rule that attackers must play at least 1x over before they can score comes into effect.
drawing positional play 4 goals
  • Ball control exercise with opponent in the back (15 min.)
  • Pairs of four.
  • Players A and B in the middle, other two at the sides.
  • Players A and B take turns passing to each other, each 10 times in different variations.
  • When player A and B have both been 10 times, they exchange with C and D.
  • Variant 1:
    • Low ball.
    • Take and hold for 5 sec.
    • Hold.
  • Variation 2:
    • High ball.
    • Take and hold for 5 sec.
    • Hold.
  • Variation 3:
    • Low ball.
    • Takeaway.
    • Turn left or right.
  • Variant 4:
    • High ball.
    • Takedown.
    • Turn left or right.
drawing Control with opponent in the back
  • Player ''WHITE'' Sinks in to retrieve the ball from the goalkeeper.
  • Goalkeeper passes ball to ''WHITE''.
  • Player ''WHITE'' Dribbles towards player ''BLUE''.
  • At his starting point, he passes to Player ''BLUE'', ''WHITE'' runs on.
  • Player ''BLUE'' rebounds the ball to ''WHITE''.
  • Player ''WHITE'' passes to player ''RED''.
  • Player ''RED'' dribbles towards the 16.
  • Around the middle of the field, RED passes to BLUE2.
  • Player "BLUE2" rebounds the ball to "RED".
  • Player ''RED'' shoots the ball on goal.
  • The ball goes through the goal.
  • WHITE takes the position of BLUE.
  • BLUE takes position of RED.
  • RED takes position from BLUE2.
  • BLUE2 takes position of goalkeeper. (not necessary if you have a goalie).
  • Minimum 5 persons, to get and keep speed at least 7.
drawing Pass/Tack/Tackle