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Thursday, September 6, 2007


Soccer Ball Skills - Get Control Of The Ball!

Teaching soccer ball skills is not an easy task, but by following some good soccer skill drills, guidelines, tips and techniques, you can take much pain out of the proceedings. But, while you use these techniques in your soccer training session, you must show patience because players may take some time to improve their ball control skills.

  • Teaching Ball Control

It is important to teach the players about how to improve specific soccer skills and get and keep control of the ball. For example, when they shoot or kick a ball, they should keep their head down if they want the ball to stay down. Likewise, in order to kick the ball high in the air, they should do so by leaning back and getting under the ball.


It is important to notice that the ball may go straight up if the players do not keep their knee over the ball. To let the ball fly high in the air, the players must keep their knee over the ball while leaning back and getting under the ball.

When teaching soccer ball skills these are important aspects to keep in mind and to try to improve.

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Saturday, September 1, 2007


Free Youth Soccer Drills: Ball Control & Trapping

Free youth soccer drills to learn how to control the ball in the air is a great way to improve soccer skills. Today I'll share a few ideas with you about this topic.

  • Improve The Skill Of Controlling The Ball In The Air
  1. Have your players stand in a circle and you yourself have to stand in center.
  2. Play with them in this soccer drill. Toss the ball to one of the players and have them pass the same to other players or to you only.

You as a coach and the players have to make sure that they have to do so with an objective that the ball should never touch the ground. In no case, they have to use their hands. The soccer players and you just have to use the head knees and feet.

You can have the players (after a few sessions like this) try this in smaller group. For example, they learn how to control and coordinate the ball. It also important because it helps them learn how to kick the ball in a controlling way while the ball is in the air.

  • How To Teach Good Reactive Skills And Soccer Trapping Methods

  1. You have to let your players stand in a circle, but make sure there is good distance between each other. The players have to stand with their backs towards the center. One player should stand in the middle of the circle.
  2. The player in the middle has to call the name of a specific player and kick the ball to him and that specific player has to give a quick response by turning around and trapping the ball with the best possible way he can.

The above youth soccer drills are great ways to help your players improving these specific soccer skills.

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