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Tuesday, August 28, 2007


Football Exercises: Soccer Warmup Drills

There are a wide variety of football exercises that you can use and that are a great way to get your players ready for a training session or a match. Today I'll write about a simple soccer warm up drill and how you can make some effective soccer exercises for your players.

  • Warm up Drill: Passing Through A Circle

Passing through a circle is an effective warm up soccer exercise and gives your players good warm up before you start a training session or before they are getting ready for a match.

In this exercise, have five of your players stand in a circle with twenty-yard diameter. Now, have another five of your players stand behind each of these players. Now the front-standing players have to pass the ball to each other in a random way while standing at the same place. No doubt, this is an effective technique, but since this exercise requires lots of movement, your communication skill will be at test here.

You should use your soccer motivation and communication skill and vision in order to instruct the players for this exercise. You will have to use your imagination in order to make this drill more innovative by adding variations to the same. For example, you may want to put a defender in the middle of the circle.

Feel free to create your own variations of these football exercises and come up with your own ideas. My job here is to stimulate your coaching brain... your job is to give it wings! Good Luck!

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