Once you go through the article, it’ll be easy for you to believe that it is games rather than soccer drills that are most influential in honing skills during the Soccer practice.

Not only are games more stimulating than drills, but the energy required is also the same like in a real tournament.

In relation to soccer training, games command passion, is a source of great fun, and in the process of learning it, kids benefit from various phases of the game.

There are a few guidelines that you need to keep in mind before introducing games in training sessions.

1. Ensure that each player has the ball and gets to play with it frequently.

2. Ensure equal participation of the players in the games.

Ensure that the weak players also get a chance to play with the ball and not be deprived of it.

3. Abstain from adopting the policy of reward or penalty.

The games are not meant for that.

4. To build soccer skills should be the only focal point of the games.

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5. If possible, don’t impose any regulations or limitations in a game.

6. It is always beneficial if the games are easy to identify with and play.

Difficulty in understanding the games results in wastage of time.

7. Finally, increase the level of difficulty in the game after the kids have managed to pass a given level.

In a soccer practice session, 200-300 times is the least that every player participating should touch the ball.

This has the effect of ensuring each player’s progress in improving soccer skills.

Listed below are certain soccer coaching games which are effective, trendy, and attractive and help develop the skills of players.

1. Shoot the coach: Here, the kids try to put the ball into the goal by moving in a crowd and keeping their head held high.

As a result of this, the concentration power and dribbling skill of the players improve.

It always helps to make the kids play the game by starting with 3 kids and regularly introducing more players.

2. Freeze Tag: This game is great for warm ups as well as teaching the kids to keep the ball away from the defender.

In this game, every player has a ball except one and the player without the ball must touch (not kick) the ball.

When this happens, the player with the ball is frozen and must act as a goal post.

Only when the other player has hit the ball between frozen player’s legs can that player be de-frozen.

Continue playing till the time all players are in a frozen state.

3. Red light, green light: In this, the kids must stand in a queue.

The coach shouts green light and turns his back to the players who must then move forward with their balls before the coach again shouts red light and face the kids.

If a player has not made the complete move, he has to return to the starting line.

This is a great game for building agility and focus.

So there you have it!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Andre Botelho is a recognized authority in youth soccer coaching and has already helped thousands of youth coaches to dramatically improve their coaching skills. Learn how to explode your players’ skills and make training fun by downloading your free ebook at: Soccer Practice

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