Shooting
Coaching these soccer shooting drills will enhance your players’ ability to beat the goalkeeper from many different positions. Shooting is a core soccer skill for EVERY player and we have some great ways to coach it. We look at shooting from dead ball situations, shooting while running, shooting first time, drive shots and how to make the ball bend, curl and dip. We have great soccer shooting drills and games to help you coach the skills to all your players.
in Shooting, Soccer drills and skills
Get your players running to the ball and taking lots of shots in this fast-moving but simple drill. MORE
in Shooting, Small Sided Games
With just four passes before a shot has to be made, your players will learn how break from midfield with pace and precision MORE
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In youth soccer, a high proportion of goals come from close range – so finding space in the area to get a shot away or convert a cross is a vital skill. Scoring from close range is based on instinct but there are key skills, such as picking up a position where defenders can’t see... MORE
in Shooting, Small Sided Games
This quick and exciting shooting game makes your players work hard and think fast in order to beat the keeper and win the Golden Boot. MORE
in Attacking, Shooting
Sharpen up your players in front of goal with this devastating attacking practice that gives them so many chances to shoot they can’t help but score MORE
in Attacking, Shooting
This session helps improve movement and interplay between midfielders and forwards. It’s designed to encourage understanding between players through timing of runs, weight of pass, and expectation of a team mate’s movement. MORE
in Fun soccer games, Shooting
This is a great game since it provides a natural handicap that makes even the most unequal of teams (in terms of player skill) equal. So let your players choose their own teams, if necessary, and enjoy the game’s effect! MORE
in Blog, Shooting
Kevin De Bruyne was once dubbed “the modern Cruyff”’ by his under-21 manager at Genk and it was Johan Cruyff who said: “Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.” MORE
in Ball Control and Footwork, Shooting
It is an important part of a striker’s tool box to be able to dribble the ball and have a shot a goal as a result – often finding space in the final third relies on aggressive strikers MORE
in Shooting, Tips and advice
Liverpool’s Mo Salah was outstanding in front of goal this season. He secured the Premier League Golden Boot for 2017-18 after finishing the season with 32 goals from his 36 appearances. MORE
in Shooting, Small Sided Games
One team knocks balls off cones and one team scores by passing to the keeper from one end to the other. But the key to this game is that when a ball is knocked off the opposition have to get it back. MORE
in Ball Control and Footwork, Shooting
Strike fear into the heart of any defender with this session. Cut inside or split the defenders after receiving the ball at an angle to the goal, turning and firing past the keeper into the net. MORE
in Ball Control and Footwork, Shooting
Mo Salah in the Champions League with Liverpool, Kevin De Bruyne in the Premier League with Manchester City and Lionel Messi in La Liga with Barcelona – the best players can chip a ball. MORE
in Shooting, Small Sided Games
There are plenty of ways to score in this game but accuracy and game management are key to making the most of having 7 targets to shoot at MORE
in Shooting, Small Sided Games
An end-to-end game that will help your players to develop a goal poacher’s instincts by limiting strikers to just one touch in the final third of the pitch MORE
in Attacking, Shooting
Top strikers may be worth their weight in gold but when it comes to winning titles, the clever money goes on the sides with firepower throughout the squad too. MORE
in Attacking, Shooting
A fast and frantic game that encourages your players to make the most of the extra man and create the space to shoot from distance, like Zlatan Ibrahimovic did in his first game for LA Galaxy MORE
in Attacking, Shooting
Teams keep possession in one half but when they spot an opening they break into the other half – but now they only have 5 seconds to score. MORE
in Ball Control and Footwork, Shooting
This simple and fun activity is perfect for use on match days, allowing you to warm up your players with ball control, speed and good touch MORE
in Shooting, Turning
Turning with the ball is a skill in itself but there should be an end product which is created by turning with the ball – in this case the players turns and finishes by shooting MORE
in Attacking, Shooting
Get your players to think combinations by linking up patterns of play in this session and applying a good finish using the correct technique and skill set MORE
in Ball Control and Footwork, Shooting
Pass, turn, shoot then move quickly to get back into position – this session works your players to get to the ball first and shoot quickly MORE
in Midfield, Shooting
When teams are playing through the middle of the pitch they should always look to move the ball through the midfield either down the middle or using wide players to advance into the final third. Why use it This forces play through them midfield and shows players how playing this way they keep possession and... MORE
in Attacking, Shooting
The session is about is all about the movement from the two forwards to free themselves and receive passes in front of one of the goals. Shooting technique will be very important. MORE
