Fun Soccer Drills Will Keep Them Coming Back

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Fun soccer drills will keep players coming back for more. Younger soccer players are part of your team because somebody brings them to practice. But they won't want to keep coming if it isn't what? Fun ... right? Since most of a soccer player's time is spent practicing, let's make it fun so they'll come back and be glad to be there.

Now drills can do several things for your team. Drills can condition. Winning soccer teams have fit players. Conditioning is also about preventing injuries. Drills also are about working as a team and developing style. But often practices overlook developing the soccer skills of each individual player. Sure you can build a team around a gifted individual, but the best teams develop the skills of all the players.

Workouts must be appropriate for the age of the players. For example 6 year olds want to move around and they need to get used to the ball and everything about how to play soccer. So what about fun soccer drills based on "red light - green light."

Red Light - Green Light

The coach stands at the end of the field and the players at the other. The coach calls out green light.
The players dribble their balls up the field as fast as possible.
When the coach says red light and turns every player should stop with a foot on the ball.
Any player caught still moving must go back to the start.
First player to the coach wins.

Now that is some serious fun for younger players.

You can adapt many children's games to soccer. But of course that takes quite a bit of thought. You really need a big backlog of training drills so you can plan for practices. Only by serious planning can you have fun routines that will keep your players interested. Another possibility is getting access to drill diagrams that you can print off and give to your players. An additional helpful tool is animated computer based workouts too. Everybody likes computer-based games.

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