Two touch target
Use this realistic shooting session to coach your players to receive a ball played to the edge of the penalty area and shoot with their second touch MORE
Soccer drills and skills
This season, never hunt around for a fresh soccer drill again. Get proven and easy to use drills for all groups and abilities with Soccer Coach Weekly. As a coach, it is your job to give your team the skills and technique to be great players.
The soccer drills in this section will help you coach your players in the core skills of the game. We’ll tell you what to look out for, how to get the ideas over to your players, and we’ll give you games and exercises to really power-up their skills.
Drills by skill
- Dribbling drills
- Turning drills
- Crossing drills
- Heading drills
- Tackling drills
- Passing drills
- Shooting drills
- Ball control & footwork drills
Drills by age group
- U5 soccer drills
- U6 soccer drills
- U7 soccer drills
- U8 soccer drills
- U9 soccer drills
- U10 soccer drills
- U11 soccer drills
- U12 soccer drills
- U13 soccer drills
- U14 soccer drills
- U15 soccer drills
- U16 soccer drills
Ask your players: Why is Aguero so successful?
One way to give your players something to do in this forced break from sport is to get them to pick a player and tell you in their own words why that player is so great. And see if they can name an instance where the player showed his skills that resulted in a goal. MORE
VIDEO Individual Skills: The Hook Turn
in Ball Control and Footwork, Turning
This is a great skill for attacking the penalty area with defenders alongside or in front and a change of direction is needed. Think Eden Hazard at Real Madrid. Watch the video from Coerver Coaching’s ‘Make Your Move’ DVD MORE
Blast past the defender
This series of drills will help your attackers take on defenders in crucial 1v1 battles. This is an important skill all players need because there are so many one-on-one encounters everywhere on the pitch. MORE
Hungry strikers
The term “hungry striker” is given to an attacker who has a burning desire to score. Players like Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez are prime examples. They work hard for the team by pressuring opposition defenders in order to win the ball or force a mistake. MORE
Plenty of time to do things like try and...
in Ball Control and Footwork, Email newsletters
At the back of my mind I am seeing greenhouses getting trashed across the world! But I want everyone to try and swerve a football... MORE
Slam… for one or two players
in Ball Control and Footwork, Fun soccer games
We're all facing up to what we can do during the lockdown where there can only be one or two people in a gathering. So here is a game that can be played with one or two that is good fun and skilful MORE
Throw for broke
in Set pieces, Small Sided Games
A long throw when teams are in the attacking third of the pitch can be as effective as a corner kick or a free-kick. Use this session to identify a couple of players who can perfect the technique. Set up You need balls, bibs, cones and two goals. Set up an area 30 x 20... MORE
Round the bend
in Ball Control and Footwork, Practice plans
Swerving the ball using the inside of the foot can be used for passing around opposition defenders, shooting and taking corners – so it’s a technique well worth mastering. MORE
The Brazilian
Using a full back as an offensive weapon was made popular by the Brazilian national team. This session will help you develop “Brazilian” full backs in your team, giving it greater numbers in offence and increasing your attacking options. MORE
Covid-19: A time for individual skills
in Ball Control and Footwork, Email newsletters
How about trying to get your players to get out into their gardens and try some individual skills that they can bring back to training and use in a session once football resumes? MORE
Keep fit and score more goals
in Email newsletters, Shooting
Keeping fit is something that I marvelled at when I saw Boca Juniors win the Argentinian Premier Division for the 34th time. Carlos Tevez at the age of 36 was instrumental in the season long domination in Argentina. MORE
Build up into attack
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
This session is all about creating overloads while playing out from the back, through midfield and into attack, creating 1v1, 2v1, 2v2 and 3v2 situations. MORE
Warm up circle
in Arrival activities, Fun soccer games, Warm Ups
Great for any age group, getting brains warmed up with gentle running and getting players to concentrate and think about what they have to do. Simple but very effective. MORE
The Messi challenge
Lionel Messi’s attacking ability from both wide and central areas is unrivalled. Get your players to copy him in the Messi challenge – a session that will give them the confidence to attack from any position. MORE
Just passing through
Good, progressive, passing football involves moving the ball forward by breaking through defensive lines and slipping passes between defenders. Use this session to help your players learn this simple, yet devastating, skill. MORE
Futsal: why play it?
in Ball Control and Footwork, Podcast
In this podcast Dave Clarke talks to Steve Scott about the benefits of playing Futsal, tactics and techniques used, the individual skills used and the coaching challenges he faces with the USAFF C15 boys national team as he gets the squad ready for the World Cup in Paraguay later this year MORE
Attack-defend-attack
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
Use this session as a way of getting fast breaking teams to tear through a static defence and create lots of goalscoring chances. In this game players are working in groups to beat a defence in a transition type of situation which will happen often in matches. MORE
The fast way to score goals
in Attacking, Email newsletters
Attacking and counter attacking at speed is all about the players on your team being aware of what is happening around them and communicating between themselves so they all move at speed into the right areas at the right time. MORE
Tip the balance
This trio of overload attacking and defending possession drills is demanding for defenders but the rewards for winning possession is to give their team a player advantage. MORE
Powerplay
This session is inspired by the ice hockey final at the Olympic Winter Games. Canada were leading 2-1 with seconds left. The USA coach removed his goalkeeper to give his team a player overload and this led to the equalising goal, and overtime. The USA lost, but the coach’s bravery deserved more. MORE
Clever combination play can deliver fast attacks
in Attacking, Email newsletters, Passing
I work my players every training session on keeping the ball. Small sided passing games that are opposed in overload situations are a key way to getting players used to keeping the ball by passing and moving under pressure. MORE
Scoring from crosses
in Attacking, Email newsletters
Scoring from crosses is a sure fire way of making sure the ball hits the back of the net – crosses from wingers contribute to more goal chances than anything else in the game, so making sure you include sessions on scoring from crosses in your training schedule is vital to the success of your team. MORE
Control the goal
Teams must be in control of the match by scoring first – then they have to build on that to win the game. This is all about taking control of the game by scoring a goal and then changing direction. MORE
