Soccer drills
Goal of the exercise:
- Try to get 3 balls to your hat as fast as possible.
- Make 4 pairs.
Exercise:
- Start with 12 balls.
- Each time, 1 player from a pair will participate. The other player will not participate.
- The winner is the one who first has 3 balls at his hat.
- After this round, the second player goes.
- After each round, 1 ball is removed from the game, leaving fewer and fewer balls.
Game rules:
- Do not take more than 1 ball at a time.
- Dribble only.
- Players waiting are not allowed to help or hinder.
- It is not allowed to take balls away while dribbling, so no duels.
- Balls do not have to come from the middle only but may be taken buck away from another player.
Players Blue:
Match-oriented positions:
Match-oriented positions:
A = Left back
B = Central defensive midfielder
C = Left half
D = Striker 1
E = Striker 2
- Left back plays into the left half.
- Central midfielder gets free in the axis and is played on by the left half.
- Striker 1 sinks out a bit for the handball.
- Striker 1 drops ball to left half.
- Striker 1 turns away so that ball could possibly be stabbed to him.
- Left half leaves depth ball and plays Striker 2 tight in foot.
- The rebounds him half deep to the incoming Striker 1.
- Striker 1 works off.
Players Red:
A = Central defensive midfielder
B = Left back
C = Left half
D = Striker 1
E = Striker 2
- Central midfielder plays into left half.
- Left half drops to left back.
- Striker 1 drops out.
- Left back plays into striker 1.
- Striker 1 drops to pass-through central midfielder.
- Central midfielder looks for striker two.
- Striker 1 gets under the ball.
- Striker two drops to Striker 1.
- Striker 1 finishes.
Always pass alphabetically.
Variation opportunity in advanced situations:
-Add a number 10 -see white player- to the situation to create additional opportunities.
-Have the left half run action into the corner to receive and cross as an additional opportunity.
- Two mini goals outside the box.
- Play team against team.
Exercise:
- Start on the back line.
- On "yes" from trainer, teams play the ball in tight and come in for the ball rebound.
- Hit the ball in one pass at pace into the mini goal.
- Whoever scores first or only gets the ball from the player standing between the mini goals for a quick 2 vs. 2 in the 16 yards.
- Concentrate on playing tightly
Exercise revolves primarily around player D.
Open-ended approach essential.
Open-ended approach essential.
- Starts at A.
- A plays to B.
- B rebounds in the run back to A.
- D makes forward action and gets into the ball between the 2 hats.
- A plays in on D's left foot.
- D accepts with one ball contact and turns up between the two hats.
- D plays in on C.
- C drops on B.
- B pokes into the run of the passed D.
- D finishes in small goal and closes in behind again.
Alphabetical turn through.
- Player 1 passes the ball to player 2.
- Player 1 runs through and player 2 lays the ball wide.
- Player 1 passes the ball to player 3.
- Player 2 meanwhile has run on to the goal.
- Player 3 passes a cross to player 2 and and then player 2 finishes.
- Player 2 dribbles with ball from A to B and passes to C
- Player D passes to A
- Player from B to D
- Player 3 dribbles with ball from C to B and passes to A
- Player D to C
- Player B to D
- The first player plays the ball deep to the second player.
- This second player then passes the ball.
- The first player finishes.
- Player 1 passes a long ball across the goal.
- Player 2 takes the ball and must attack.
- Player 1 must defend.
- Is it played 1 versus 1 then player 1 slides through and player 2 joins the line.
- 3 white players remain standing.
- Center player may have position taken over by front side though.
- White players are always in team ball possession.
- We assume 1x hit. Maximum 2x.
- If blue takes the ball, they make it big quickly.
- Red conquers the ball and makes it small quickly.
- Perform this exercise with inside foot.
- Distance to pawn either side 5 meters.
- Per team 1 trainer who counts points.
- Start on one side and let players kick on opposite side.
- knock over a pawn 3 points.
- hit pawn on front side but not around then 1 point.
- Starting in circle center line.
- Number 10 offers but chooses which side.
- Other players must therefore pay close attention. Depending on that choice, we assume left at green hat or right at orange hat.
- In this example the green hat is on the left.
- Number 10 offers and passes the ball to number 6. He immediately passes to the right sacked striker.
- At the moment the sagging striker is played in, the other striker begins his run.
- The striker again has a choice:
- Dropping on the returning number 10
- Immediately play into the flank.
Continued if choice 1:
- Number 10 pokes the flank midfielder away by a deep pass towards the corner.
- The other flank midfielder starts his run to eventually end up at point 16, about the time the cross is going to be delivered.
The crosser then has 3 choices:
- First post -> run-through 'cross' striker.
- Second post -> passed flanker
- Edge 16 -> runaway sagging striker
Continued if choice 2:
- The sagging striker plays the ball tightly into the feet of the midfielder trapped on the touchline. The midfielder is then left with two options:
- A stab pass to the crooked second striker who has run out behind the sagging striker.
- An early cross toward the far point 16, here the other midfielder connects and lays the ball wide to the striker.
