Training Regimes For Pitch Awareness In Soccer

Pitch awareness is an important soccer skill. It can be the one skill that makes you best from the rest. Skills like pitch awareness and decision-making are hard to master and even harder when you’re trying to achieve alone. These skills can be learned easily by practicing them with your teammates. All the 11 players in football are not only teammates, there should be a bond between you and your teammates. This bond takes you to the next level of your game and increases the chance of your winning.

Pitch awareness helps you to keep control over the ball, and have a mental map of the game. This mental game helps you to assess the position of the player and more time to make a smart decision or be a step ahead of the play.

These are the mental skills that affect your pitch awareness.

Game Intelligence

Soccer players must identify the most important information in a specific game situation and then move to their next step. This will let them know the weaknesses of the opponent team and exploit them. To do this, you have to know the positions of your other teammates.

Imagination

Having the mental capacity to imagine a particular situation is critical. You can predict the direction of the ball and set up a play based on the position of your teammates and the opposition team.

Peripheral Vision

Peripheral Vision means the line of sight where you will be able to see teammates and opponents without having direct eye contact. This will help see movement further from the center while still maintaining your focus on the ball.

The Dribble Stare

Dribbling is an important type of soccer drill that you should add to your training regimes. Dribbling is the art of keeping the ball away from the opposition at a close range as you go past them.

To increase your pitch awareness practice it with your teammate or a partner and try to look at each other while dribbling around in small spaces. Do this for 2-minute intervals with a 1-minute “freestyle” in-between and repeat this for 10-15 minutes.

Watch the professionals game

I know you got confused, what exactly do I want to say. So yes watching the professional games will teach you a lot about pitch awareness. Whenever you go to watch your favorite player, don’t just sit there, let your brain work and study the game like a tactician. Notice everything how they move, when they don’t have the ball, and see how they play off of the opposing team’s movements. All this will give you a clear idea of how you should perform in the same situation.

Conclusion

Pitch awareness is an essential part of your success. Your all training will be negligible if you don’t have pitch awareness and know-how to make smart decisions. Being quick at making decisions can increase your chances of defeating them. As a soccer player, you need to know how to react quickly and effectively.

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