It is important to add some fun soccer drills into your routine, especially drills for the younger kids. Here is a soccer drill that keeps things fun but also works on reaction, agility, quickness, and speed. This animation uses 6 players...
Setup
Everyone is it without balls. All balls are outside the grid.
Inside the grid, you try and tag other people. If you tag them, they must hold the body part that got tagged and yell “ouch!”
If they get tagged a 2nd time by someone...
Setup
Split team into two groups. One group will have balls, while the other don’t.
When coach says go, the players with the balls try and hit (below the knees) as many of the other team as they can with their ball. If they hit someone...
Setup
One player has a ball, and all the others do not.
Object is for player to hit other players below the knee with their ball. If a player gets hit, they have to get another ball and join as a minion.
Play until there is one player...
Setup
Every player has a ball.
One at a time, the players hand their ball to the coach who tosses their ball in a different direction while telling them how to bring the ball back.
Ways to ask the players to bring it back: running (...
This is a variation of the Cross Fire Without Balls soccer drill. The only difference is that the players runing through the middle will dribble soccer balls. As they run through the middle they do not want to get hit or let their...
Catch a rabbit is a fun game that will also force players to work on reacting, agility, and a quick first step. This drill requires an even amount of players. Try to pair up players based on speed so that they challenge each other. Set up...
This is a variation / progression of the "Catch a Rabbit" drill. Everything works the same except now each player has a ball. When their line is called out by the coach then they have to dribble their ball to the end line before...
Setup
Place 5 cones, and 5 pennies on ground spread out around grid.
Start without a ball. Coach gives the players a task to complete which they try to get as many points as they can:
a) touch hand to cones/pennies.
b) touch foot to...
For some reason the intensity spikes when players are asked to compete against their team mates. This is a soccer agility drill in which team mates race through a quick agility course to get to the ball first. On the whistle, the...
For this soccer drill setup the cones with 6 going horizontally, 3 vertically, and 4 more horizontally. Have players between 2 cones at the line of 4 cones. Make sure each of the players have a ball. Another set of balls should be set up...
This is a fun soccer drill kids will love! This video shows the drill being run with 9 kids but you can modify to fit the number of players on your team. There will be three groups of players. One group will be the players running through...
For this soccer drill players will be able to work on speed shooting and some conditioning. There will be two sides with four players on each side. Coaches can put as many soccer balls as they would like on each side, this animation shows...
This soccer drill would be good for conditioning your players. They will start at cones and run in a “squiggle” pattern to try to reach the ball at the end first. Whichever player reaches the cone first will wait for the other player at...
