Technique Drills

Technique is the foundation everything else is built on. These soccer technique drills develop ball mastery, turns, feints and coordination - the individual skills that let players execute whatever the game asks of them. Perfect as session openers or homework between practices.

11 drills
HomeDrillsTechnique
easy

Soccer Control and Trapping Small-Sided Game

This soccer control and trapping drill for U9–U14 hides serious first-touch training inside a throw-and-catch game.

20 min14 playersU9–U14
easy

Trapping with Passive Opposition

Trapping with Passive Opposition is a soccer receiving drill that adds a live body to basic control work.

15 min3+ playersU9–U16
easy

Dribbling Warm-Up

This Dribbling Warm-Up is a ten-minute routine that touches every part of the foot before the real session begins.

10 min4+ playersU8–U16
medium

Soccer Tennis

Soccer Tennis turns volleying and aerial control into a game older kids genuinely love.

20 min6+ playersU11–U16
medium

Trapping and Controlling the Ball With Your Back to Goal

Every striker spends much of the game receiving with their back to goal, and this soccer receiving drill for U10–U16 players trains exactly that moment.

20 min3+ playersU10–U16
easy

Dribbling Warm-Up Drill

This dribbling warm-up drill piles up ball touches faster than almost any other soccer dribbling drill for U6–U12 players.

20 min3+ playersU6–U12
easy

Trapping and Control with No Opposition

Before a player can control the ball under pressure, they need to control it with none.

10 min2+ playersU8–U14
medium

Shooters and Shaggers

Shooters and Shaggers is a competitive soccer shooting drill that builds accuracy, leg strength, and a clean instep drive.

20 min6+ playersU9–U16
easy

Dribbling at the Cone

Dribbling at the Cone is a soccer dribbling drill that lets U6-U10 players learn fakes and feints without any pressure.

12 min3 per grid playersU6–U10
easy

Can You Do This?

Can You Do This? is a follow-the-leader soccer warm-up game built for U5-U6 players.

10 min4+ playersU5–U7
easy

Instep Shooting Drill

This soccer shooting drill isolates the instep drive - the laces strike with toe down and ankle locked that powers most goals.

15 min4+ (pairs) playersU8–U14