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Soccer Coaching Drills – Create Space

Watch a soccer coaching video on a drill to improve creating space: See an interactive, 3D animated soccer coaching drill on how to effectively create space: There is also a printable coaches chalkboard drill, all designed to assist a soccer coach with developing the skills required for creating space.

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Soccer Coaching Drills – Improve creating space 

When attacking a team should look to create space by making the pitch as big as possible, making it wide and long. This will stretch the opposition defensively and give the attacking team more time and space in which to build attacks.

When planning attacking soccer coaching drills or games a coach should look to apply this basic attacking principle at all times. Encourage your players to react every time they gain possession by quickly moving into space and to make the pitch as long and as wide as possible. When the ball is passed, players will need to readjust their positions, but should still be constantly looking to find space and to support the player on the ball.

The player on the ball should always have more than one support option, with at least one player always providing support behind the ball, at least one player providing support in front of the ball and at least one player providing width. When playing in soccer drills and sessions, players should also be coached in understanding the need for the correct timing, angle and distance of the support, along with early communication, both verbally and with hand gestures, to help the player on the ball.

By planning and coaching soccer drills and sessions that encourage players to understand and work on this principle of creating space as a team will pay huge dividends in the quality of the training sessions and in game situations.

When coaching soccer drills on creating space, coaches should also encourage players to understand that they will sometimes create and find space to receive the ball themselves and sometimes, to create space for other players, by making runs to draw the opposition away from a player in space.

Coaches should also encourage players to understand that there are times when they can and should create space with the ball. By planning soccer coaching drills in which space is at a premium will force players to move to find space, to support the player on the ball and to create space with the ball.

Coaching soccer drills - Tips to improve creating space

  • Tip #1 for Soccer Coaching Drills - Immediately the team gain possession, players should look to create and find space. This will make the pitch bigger and give players more time to develop attacks.
  • Tip #2 for Coaching Soccer Drills – Players should look to create space and adopt supporting positions where the passer can see the supporting player easily. Support players will need to move, so that ideally there are no opponents between themselves and the player looking to pass the ball.
  • Tip #3 for Soccer Coaching Drills – Supporting players should think about the timing, angles and distance of their support as this will give them more time and space when they receive the ball. 
  • Tip #4 for Coaching Soccer Drills – To help the passer, good, early, clear and concise communication between the players, both verbally and with body language is essential. 
  • Tip #5 for Soccer Coaching Drills – As the ball moves, support players will need to readjust their positions. As the ball moves, so will the support positions for the player on the ball. Players will constantly need to be moving to create and find space
  • Tip #6 for Coaching Soccer Drills - Players on the ball should be coached to create space for themselves when in possession of the ball. Soccer coaching drills that encourage ball manipulation and turning with the ball out of tight areas will always help the players’ improvement of the skill of creating space with the ball.
 

Watch videos

This soccer coaching video for a drill to improve creating space will help you coach, understand and structure a soccer coaching drill for creating space.

Videos: Soccer Coaching Drills | Create Space

See animated drill

Taken from our members' area of creating space, this is an interactive, 3D animated soccer coaching drill on creating space called "Pass, move and switch play in triangles"

Animated drills: Soccer Coaching Drills | Create Space

Coaches chalkboard session

All members have access to our planning and design software called "Coaches Chalkboard". Click on to access a soccer coaching drill on creating space you can print out and take to training

Chalkboard software: Soccer Coaching Drills | Create Space

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