Soccer Drills – Player skill competitions

Soccer drills – Skill competition to improve turning with the ball Soccer drills - Turn with the ball inside centre coned circle Soccer drills – turn at outside cone

Players love to get a ball out and have fun playing soccer. They don't always need coaching or organised soccer drills. Very often just kicking a ball around with their friends is fun and a learning process. The fact they have to work out for themselves the best way of passing or controlling the ball by having a go themselves, making mistakes and watching and copying other players is a powerful learning medium.

Whilst coaching players is still very important. Grassrootscoaching.com have looked at and studied the way soccer players learn and improve. To this end, we have developed a series of soccer drills that are designed as player skill competitions. These soccer drill competitions are designed in such a way that the players themselves take responsibility for organising the soccer drill competitions, organising the areas and applying the rules.

The soccer drill skill competitions are intended to be easy to understand, to be fun and enjoyable, whilst at the same time, through the structure of the soccer drill competition, to focus on a specific skill, which will encourage players to improve the skills needed to successfully participate in the soccer drill skill competition.

Whilst the soccer drill skill animations focus on two players, the soccer drill competition can easily be expanded and progressed to include more than one player. The soccer drill skill competitions can also be used by coaches as part of their training programme. They can also be printed out and given to players and their parents as soccer homework, which the players can practice on their own, with their friends and parents.

The animated soccer drill competitions section covers soccer skills such as:

Ball control – Soccer drills to improve control with the foot, the thigh, the chest and to encourage the players to adjust and select the correct control surface
Running with the ball – The soccer drill competitions are structured so that the player has to control the ball into space, get their head up, run quickly with the ball but still be under control
Passing the ball – There are soccer drill competitions that ensure the players have to pass the ball accurately and think about the weight and timing of the pass
Dribbling – Dribbling with the head up, manipulating the ball with the front foot and using a change of pace and direction all important when dribbling. The soccer drill competitions are designed to ensure the players have to use all these dribbling skills.
Turning – Within the soccer drill competitions for turning with the ball, the players have to learn how to turn when receiving the ball and how to turn with the ball in different directions

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