Youth Soccer Drills: 84 Drills for Beginning and Intermediate Players

by Jim Garland

As a youth soccer coach you have a limited amount of time to teach an enthusiastic group of kids how to play the game--and have fun doing it. That's why you need Youth Soccer Drills. It helps you develop fundamentally sound players by providing 84 of the game's best drills for teaching basic spacing and movement concepts, dribbling, passing, and shooting skills to beginning- and intermediate-level players ages 5 to 12.

The book features a comprehensive, well-organized drill finder that categorizes drills according to the specific skill that is being taught as well as the age group for which the drill is appropriate. This helps you deliver organized instruction that is specific to the age group you teach, including

-16 movement drills,
-14 dribbling drills,
-30 passing and collecting drills,
-7 heading drills, and
-17 shooting drills.

You will create better practice sessions with new material on preparing effective practice plans (including sample practice plans for 5- to 6-year-olds, 7- to 8-year-olds, 9- to 10-year-olds, and 11- to 12-year-olds) and implementing progressions for 4-versus-4, 5-versus-5, 8-versus-8, and 11-versus-11.

With Youth Soccer Drills, you have a logical order of teaching skills and concepts that will improve skills as well as safety on the field and help you develop a fundamentally sound soccer team.

Genres: Soccer, Sports, Reference

214 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice collection of drills, but be aware that there are many which require over 10 to perform. I couldn't really use it for my small-sided team which had a maximum of 10 players.

[Jocelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple, yet effective with illustrations for quick understanding.

[Brian Sison · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book of drills for a youth soccer coach to have on hand when creating practice plans. They have many games and drills for individual practice, partners, and large groups to work on movement, dribbling, passing, receiving, heading, and shooting.

This book won't teach you a thing about how to be a coach, but it will help you run an efficient practice.

[Chrissy Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers a lot of great tips and ideas for the beginning soccer coach! Lots of coaches are lost for informative and visual content to help them in their first years. This book offers great diagrams and insight to each activity, and helps show how the progression will work for each player or team.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some good training skills here. A few I have never heard of and can't wait to try out on my daughter's team in the fall.

[Heidi Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

super helpful instructions, with great visual aids - exactly what I needed as a new coach