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Free soccer drills

If we have a common liking, you would accept if I say during free soccer drills, the most exciting part is to dribble a soccer ball. One of the major flaws most players make is that they forget the environment and rather focus on the ball during dribbling of the soccer ball.

Let me share with you one drill that has been used over and over again in soccer practice to teach young players how to dribble a soccer ball because it is a lot of fun. The drill teaches the players to seek and make the maximum utilization of space.

The players should learn to be aware of their surrounding while having the ball at their feet; this is a major challenge for most soccer coaches.

Apart from teaching the valuable skill of making the players to raise their head up while dribbling the soccer ball, the drill is also a lot of fun.

Soccer Drills

Apart from making the player to dribble the ball, this drill is much better to other soccer exercises since it allows the player to get a feel of the ball and the space around him which can be used.

1.On an average start by marking out a square of size 20 * 20 yards (change the square size depending upon number of players and age).

2.Divide the players into two halves and make players stand on one side of the square with the ball. Attacker is the name provided to this half of the players.

3.To ensure all the places in the square are covered, the other half of the players are asked to spread out. Crab is the name given to these players.

4.Crabs use their hands to protect themselves after sitting down. These players can walk around using their hands and feet only.

In free soccer drills we can have good fun and yet teach a lot of important points of dribbling the ball.

On the coaches’ whistle, each player dribbles the ball to the opposite side and stops the ball on the line opposed to them. “The Crabs” try and get the ball from the Attackers and when they do so, the Attacker becomes a Crab. When all the crabs are eliminated and only one attacker is left, he is declared as the winner and the game is concluded.

The best part of soccer coaching is that the Crab also learns the benefits of teamwork to deny attackers any space and tries to take the ball away from them; it’s really a win-win situation.

It’s a simple but effective way of teaching the players to dribble with their heads up, cross the defenders, and avoid bumping into each other as they move across the square.

To conclude every player has the ability to be more alert, to react quickly and to run faster. To help the players achieve better acceleration and to help making decision faster these free soccer drills will help.

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About the author

Andre Botelho is known online as “The Expert Youth Soccer Coach” and his free ebooks and reports have been downloaded more than 100,000 times. Learn how to skyrocket your players’ skills and make practice sessions fun in record time. Download your free ebook at: Soccer Drills.

 


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