Basic Soccer Drills for Kids: 150 Soccer Coaching and Training Drills, Tactics and Strategies to Improve Kids Soccer Skills and IQ
By Chest Dugger
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Are you looking to take your kids' soccer game to the next level?
Check out this guide for youth soccer players (under 15 years) used by coaches, parents and players alike.
Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world. It is perfect for kids to play. It is safe, simple and the skills required can be easily acquired. Becoming an expert player requires high levels of dedication, natural athleticism and innate skills. Any girl or boy can take to the sport and find enjoyment at their own level.
It is for this reason that the game is escalating to such a rapid extent in the US. And it is why the need for coaches and players is growing continuously and rapidly. After all, who would not turn down the chance for their kids to keep physically fit, to allow their natural competitiveness to be channelled in an organized way, to be kept busy in a manner that is both productive and worthwhile? In addition to this, soccer develops dexterity, problem solving, collaboration, friendship, respect, self-discipline, team spirit and sportsmanship. All of which are life skills that are best acquired young.
But there is so much to learn for youngsters who wish to become soccer players at a good club level. Shooting, defending, pressing, passing, controlling the ball, the laws of the game (even professionals struggle at times with the offside law as do, it sometimes seems, the referees themselves). And more important than all of these, children must learn about the spirit of soccer. Fair play and the sportsmanship mentioned above. This is especially so for today's youngsters facing all the pressures of growing up in a challenging world driven by the twin pressures of consumerism and social media.
Here's What's Included In This Book:
The 7 different kinds of skills that kids need to learn in soccerHow Ball Control Skills escalate the level of your kids soccer game6 Passing Drills that will improve team cohesion quicklyOffensive Tips, Tricks and Drills that will make your team win6 Drills that will make your kids get to defend in numbers and strengthHow to get kids to learn from the pros on TV6 Drills that will make your kids get to defend in numbers and strength5 Dribbling Tips and Drills that will make your kid stand outHow the Mental Side of Soccer will improve your kids social and life skillsWhat Parents must do during soccer practice and games
Even if you've never played or watched soccer in your life before, you and your kids will gain a significant amount of knowledge from this book!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is one of the best books I've seen on the topic of soccer drills.
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Basic Soccer Drills for Kids - Chest Dugger
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chest Dugger is a pen name for our soccer coaching team, Abiprod. Abiprod is a team of passionate professional coaches and fans, based in UK and Australia.
We have been fans of the beautiful game for decades, coaching junior and senior teams. Like every soccer fan around the globe, we watch and play the beautiful game as much as we can. Whether we're fans of Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal or LA Galaxy; we share a common love for the beautiful game.
Through our experiences, we've noticed that there's very little information for the common soccer fan who wants to escalate his game to the next level. Or get their kids started on the way. This is especially the case for those who live outside Europe and South America. Expensive soccer coaching and methodology is pretty rare in even rich countries like USA and Australia.
Being passionate about the game, we want to get the message across to as many people as possible. Through our soccer coaching blog, books and products; we aim to bring the best of soccer coaching to the world. Though we are starting off in USA and Australia, anyone who's passionate about the beautiful game can use our tactics and strategies.
Here's a link to our author page for other books.
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Introduction – What Kind of Skills are Important to Develop First?
Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world. It is perfect for kids to play. It is safe, simple and the skills required can be easily acquired. Becoming an expert player requires high levels of dedication, natural athleticism and innate skills. Any girl or boy can take to the sport and find enjoyment at their own level.
It is for this reason that the game is escalating to such a rapid extent in the US. And it is why the need for coaches and players is growing continuously and rapidly. After all, who would not turn down the chance for their kids to keep physically fit, to allow their natural competitiveness to be channeled in an organized way, to be kept busy in a manner that is both productive and worthwhile? In addition to this, soccer develops dexterity, problem solving, collaboration, friendship, respect, self-discipline, team spirit and sportsmanship. All of which are life skills that are best acquired young.
But there is so much to learn for youngsters who wish to become soccer players at a good club level. Shooting, defending, pressing, passing, controlling the ball, the laws of the game (even professionals struggle at times with the offside law as do, it sometimes seems, the referees themselves). And more important than all of these, children must learn about the spirit of soccer. Fair play and the sportsmanship mentioned above. This is especially so for today’s youngsters facing all the pressures of growing up in a challenging world driven by the twin pressures of consumerism and social media.
This book will provide advice and tips for coaches and parents as they seek to help young people to become successful players. It will also help them to define ‘success’, whether that means spending a couple of hours per week with mates keeping physically fit in a fun environment, or moving through the academy levels and perhaps even achieving the ultimate goal of becoming a professional. The book includes numerous drills, key skills and a look at how child development affects young participants’ progress as players. As such, it is essential reading for the would be coach, or the parent whose child is looking to start playing the game for a team. It offers new ideas for experienced coaches, with drills that can be adapted to the needs of players and teams.
We look in detail at offensive and defensive plays. We consider the basics of control. We look at dribbling skills, the mental side of the game and have a special chapter for parents.
We also look at the considerable benefits TV coverage can give to young players in promoting their enthusiasm for the game while allowing them to learn from the game’s greatest exponents.
Most of all, we emphasize the importance of having fun. Suggested drills are enjoyable, the benefits of match play are stressed. Sometimes, soccer can become a little too serious (and what, in life, doesn’t sometimes fall into that trap?). Coaches and officials within the game, with the best of intentions, forget that the young participants of the sport are just that. Young. It is all very well focusing planned development on future national teams, but a negligible percentage of participants will ever come even close to playing at that level.
What is most important about soccer is that all players enjoy it. Would the young Neymar or Hazard have become the player they are today if soccer training had been an unenjoyable chore? Almost certainly not.
And what children love most of all is to run, to shoot, to celebrate and to compete. (Note: not always to win, that is a much more adult perspective. Children who hate to lose learn that attribute from the adults around them. Winning is fine, but so is losing, especially if we gain from the experience.)
Provided we create the chances for young players to enjoy their soccer, becoming better people in the process, we will have happy children on our hands. Who could ask for more?
Basic Control Skills
Spain v England. The newly inaugurated Nations’ Cup. It is a match that England must win but the odds are stacked against them. Possession is won deep in the English half and the ball is hit early and long.
It is not the best tactic, particularly against a well organised defense who have not overcommitted forward. Spain have kept two defenders back to deal with the threat of England’s lone striker, Harry Kane. Kane has been on a good run of form, he won the Golden Boot at the World Cup, and is recognised as one of the best Number 9s in the world. But here he is isolated.
There is a touch of good fortune about the first stage of his work. As he heads towards goal, heavily marked and with the ball dropping, it catches the back of his foot. But from there, Kane’s work is excellent. Aware that he is danger of losing the ball, he turns quickly, and gets into position. His first proper touch takes the ball away from his defenders, but does not remove all forward movement the attack. The second is sufficient to draw in a defender and create some space in behind him.
His control of the ball has also allowed another team mate to race forward in support.