Soccer drills

Do you want to get in better shape? You can, but it takes a few things.

• What do you need?
  • Pawns 
  • Football 
  • Clothes you can sport in  
  • Staircase 
• First of all, it is important that you make sure you warm up before you start working on your cardio!
• What should you do?
  • Run 2 pawns forward 1 to the back and repeat this every time. 
    • Do that 2x
  • Grab the ball and run 5 rounds with the ball. 
    • This will ensure ball control and as well as do something about your condition.
  • You can also do exercises indoors for your fitness, like running up and down the stairs 5 times. 
• Of course you can also give your own twist to how you want to do it, but I think this is the best and nicest way to improve it. 
• Don't try to run fast on the first day without stopping and take small steps!

• Make a square with pylons in which butter cheese and eggs can be played
• form two groups
• use 6 jackets, 3 yellow and 3 green
• Play butter cheese and eggs with the jackets 

Field setup:

Set up 2 x 2 pawns per group of 2 players. Every 2 players get 1 ball.

Gameplay:

The ball is thrown up by one player and kicked back by the other. The following variants must be practised.

Variants:

• Head the ball back into the hands of the player.
• Head the ball over the player.
• Head the ball through the ground towards the player.
• 
  

Tips:

• Make sure you head from your neck and don't just let the ball bounce on your head.
• Always tighten your arm muscles and move your head towards the ball.

• Positional defending needs to be very good
• Forcing opponent to play wide
• Take away ball
• Keep seeing the ball
• Without fouls preventing the scoring of the opponent
• Keeping an overview, seeing more than just direct opponent (covering your back)
• Working together (creating small spaces) to hold up the other party
• Start dribbling immediately
• Act fast, try to pass directly

• 2 groups
• Both groups are on one side next to the goal. 
• 1 player plays the ball high/low (depending on level), to player 2 who is in a square at the edge of the penalty area. 
• Player 2 must check the ball in square and shoot. 
• Retrieves his own ball and connects at the row next to the goal. Player of the other team was waiting behind square, now moves up. 
• Must be done at high speed, otherwise it will be too static. 
• The team with the most goals wins. 

• Player 1 and Player 2 start dribbling at the same time. 
• At the end they pass through pawns to the other side. 
• The next player receives the ball and starts dribbling.

• Player 1 passes the ball to player 2. 
• Player 2 dribbles along the pylons, passes at the end to player 3. 
• Player 3 bounces the ball back to player 2, player 2 finishes. 
• Player 3 fetches the ball, 
• Runs over to stand on the spot of Player 1
• Player 1 to Player 2, 
• Player 2 to Player 3. 

• Player 1 does exercises on the ladder
• At the end of the ladder is a ball
• With the ball he dribbles along pylons that are wide spread (conditioning)
• At the last pylon he shoots at a small goal
• Get your own ball, shoot back to the end of the ladder
• If player 1 is at the end of the ladder, player 2 can begin 

• The idea is to be able to play a game in corona time.
• The idea comes from a table soccer game
• Each player has his own space they are not allowed to leave.
• By passing, the ball can be brought to the other player
• Defense is allowed as long as it remains in his/her own discipline.
• The field can be adjusted to the number of players

Further goals:

• Passing
• Positioning game
• Shooting Distance

• The exercise can be made more difficult by making the game faster
• By only hitting the ball 2 or 3 times and playing quickly
• After all, during a match you don't have that much time either

• Pass and kick with variations in finishing and build-up
  • Keeper throws out, striker gets the ball and closes in
  • Keeper shoots out, playing striker with back to goal, striker turns away

• All players jog in over the field (square)
• Half the number of players has a ball
• players with ball pass the ball to a player without ball (eye contact).
• The players are not allowed to keep the ball with them for longer than 5 sec.

• At the moment the trainer whistles (signal), all players without a ball sprint as fast as possible to the closest player who has a ball and try to take it away.
• The player who has the ball should try to fence it off. (1:1 duel)
• When the trainer blows the whistle again we switch back to jogging and passing!

Nice variant is when you have an odd number of players, the player who can't find a direct opponent gets a command (for example sprint over the width of the field).

• You can use this exercise if you want to work in positions with a defensive triangle.
• You can apply variations where necessary and also change the distances.
• This exercise has been given several times with youth teams as well as with the first teams.
• As you can see in the picture we work on 2 sides.
• Approximately the space from the 16m to the center line.
• First player plays the ball diagonally, player B turns with the ball and plays it to C who performs a 1/2 with B. C plays the ball deep on D. It connects to the other group.
• When A is past the zone the other group leaves.
• Passing on A-B-C-D.
• You can also replace player D by a goalkeeper.
• You can do enough variations in this warm-up exercise. An extra 1/2 for player D. Or player B who moves on the pass of C and responds to D. And so on.
• Let the exercise run for about 4 minutes before inserting a variation.
• Always emphasize the forward rotation of B.
• Take care of a short passing and a short acceleration after the pass at the end of the warming up.