Soccer Skills Drills; Team warm up with juggling
Juggling is a great way to develop the skills needed to compete in the game of soccer. Taking a team through skill exercises every practice is essential in order to reach new levels of play and to create a successful environment which allows them to grow as a team and accomplish the technical and tactical goals that are part of team play.
Being able to handle a ball confidently while under pressure or on the move adds a new dimension to team play.
Here is a suggestion for a team warm up which will promote skills, fitness, field awareness, touch and confidence with the ball.
Advanced Team Warm-up
Build a grid with cones that has 9 squares or boxes. Each square should be 5x5 to 8x8 yds.
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As a warm-up give each player a brasilian futebol and ask them to juggle in the grid.
Restrict them to 2 touches and one bounce in each square. Or 3 touches or 4 or no bounces. Whatever fits your team. Remember we are trying to make this success oriented while testing the envelope.
They cannot go back to the square they just came from or ask them to hit all nine squares in an allotted time. What ever it takes to accomplish movement with the ball.
The goal is to move with the ball, and/or make the ball do what it is they want or need the ball to do. They need to avoid other players in the box, move from grid to grid, keep the ball alive hopefully while juggling under control.
Ask for some artistry and creativity.
Execute a “sombrero” to change directions. A sombrero can be flipping, kicking or knocking a ball over your own head to change directions and go the other way, or it can be touching it over another players head, usually a defender, as they run by or at you, or as you run by them.
Maybe they could skip a square, chase the ball down, control it and move on.
Reciting poetry while juggling was always one of my favorites.
They can also work in pairs. One futebol per pair. 2 touches, one bounce per square. Cannot receive ball in the same grid twice.
Work in groups of three.
We like using the brasilian futebol in warm-ups and for skills because it adds another element of challenge and accelerates the skills develoment process.
Being able to handle a ball confidently while under pressure or on the move adds a new dimension to team play.
Here is a suggestion for a team warm up which will promote skills, fitness, field awareness, touch and confidence with the ball.
Advanced Team Warm-up
Build a grid with cones that has 9 squares or boxes. Each square should be 5x5 to 8x8 yds.
^ ^ ^ ^
^ ^ ^ ^
^ ^ ^ ^
^ ^ ^ ^
As a warm-up give each player a brasilian futebol and ask them to juggle in the grid.
Restrict them to 2 touches and one bounce in each square. Or 3 touches or 4 or no bounces. Whatever fits your team. Remember we are trying to make this success oriented while testing the envelope.
They cannot go back to the square they just came from or ask them to hit all nine squares in an allotted time. What ever it takes to accomplish movement with the ball.
The goal is to move with the ball, and/or make the ball do what it is they want or need the ball to do. They need to avoid other players in the box, move from grid to grid, keep the ball alive hopefully while juggling under control.
Ask for some artistry and creativity.
Execute a “sombrero” to change directions. A sombrero can be flipping, kicking or knocking a ball over your own head to change directions and go the other way, or it can be touching it over another players head, usually a defender, as they run by or at you, or as you run by them.
Maybe they could skip a square, chase the ball down, control it and move on.
Reciting poetry while juggling was always one of my favorites.
They can also work in pairs. One futebol per pair. 2 touches, one bounce per square. Cannot receive ball in the same grid twice.
Work in groups of three.
We like using the brasilian futebol in warm-ups and for skills because it adds another element of challenge and accelerates the skills develoment process.
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Saturday, August 18, 2007.
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