It is never too late to improve your soccer skills, however, the older a player is, the more difficult it becomes. It has been said that you need 4000 touches on the ball per week from early childhood on to develop excellent soccer skills.
We have developed a progressive skill development program for a team we are coaching right now. The focus is on ball control and passing. Both are individual development programs that are ideally suited for indoor gym training, but can also be used outdoors.
The concept is to challenge players through 10 levels of skill which they must achieve to demonstrate competence. Today, we want to share with you ball control skill development. If you combine the exercises with the idea of 4000 touches per week, then 2-3 hours per week doing these exercises will give you sufficient touches. The drills today are designed to play balls off a wall from various distances, various angles and various height of contact on the wall.
These exercises can be done outdoors by playing off walls. You may want to use rubber balls so you don't damage high quality and expensive regular balls. Players will improve weight of passing, ball receiving skills and 1/2 touch control. Other benefits are improving anticipation, movement without ball, reaction, decision making and aerobic conditioning.
Note: The number in the "passes" column is the number of consecutive successful passes following all rules a player must complete to move on to the next level.
Please click on the link below to open the program, print it and enjoy the improved skill of your players.
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