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improve soccer dribbling skills

a soccer practice plan from eysa.org

age group: U10

Equipment

1 ball per player, cones, pennies

Warm up

Dribbling in Square – 10 minutes, 20x30 yards, Each player has a ball and dribbles inside the grid, the coach will call out surfaces of the foot that the player needs to use while dribbling.

As the players gain confidence add changes of direction with inside, outside, and sole of foot. In order to encourage the players to dribble with their heads up walk around the grid holding up fingers on your hand and have the players call out the number of fingers. You can also add a couple of passive defenders that can add some added pressure

Body

Pac Man – 15 minutes, 20x30 yards, two players without the ball are ghosts, the ghosts object is to get as many balls out of the grid as possible in two minutes, if a player has their ball kicked out of the grid they retrieve their ball and re-enter the grid

Praise players that are using the dribbling moves that you worked on in the warm up

Team Knockout – 15 minutes, 20x30 yards, half the players with balls, the other half need to be around the outside of the grid, the players outside the grid will come into the grid and work together to steal balls away from the dribblers and dribble the outside of the grid, once a player loses their ball they can help their team mates out by passing with them, time the team that started out with the ball on how long they can keep the balls inside the grid

Application

End Zone – 20 minutes, two 20x30 yard grids, create two games of 3v3 or 4v4, players score by dribbling over the endline with the ball

If players not having enough success you may need to add a wild card player that is always on offense, or you can increase the size of the grids

Scrimmage – 15-20 mintues, two 20x30 yard grids, create small goals on either endline and allow the players to play without any coaching

 

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