Football Team Training Drills

When we talk about training drills in football, we always mean that’s for individual growth. But in addition to practice time spent on individual skills and group work, it is equally important to use full-time team drills to enhance the power of the game and let players become more comfortable with their teammates. Let’s discuss the drills that you can practice with your entire team.

Field Goals Footwork Drill

This soccer drill gives your team “Mastery of the Ball”. It will help in a perfect kick and enhance your motion and comfort. Every player must have the skills that can make them an effective player. Ball control and footwork is the key to that. This drill makes you comfortable on the ball, gives you instant control, you will be able to change feet.

Passing the ball in the Penalty area

This drill is to work on giving passes near the Penalty area. Passing is about technique, judgment, and vision. The best passing teams conserve energy, dictate the play and make the best use of their resources, and always score more goals. When the team is near to the opponent’s goal, there is the only limited area available to put the ball in their penalty area. For that situation, one or two strategies should be designed. In this practice you can cross the ball from both corners and try to score the goal in one touch shots on the target or by putting the ball in net through headers.

Free kick Drill

This drill is to work on perfecting free kicks and free kick strategies for your team because not all teams have Messi or Ronaldo on their side to directly put the ball in the net from the spot. In this drill you can try different walls and different positioning for the off ball players to get in any sort of physical or off ball advantage to get the ball faster and finish it by converting it in a goal.

Hurdle’s and Ladder Drill

Hurdle’s and Ladder Drill are to work on coordination, agility, and field awareness. This drill will help you to improve the player’s quickness, agility, balance, and coordination skills. Hurdle’s and ladder drill is an essential training tool. They are perfect for both offensive and defensive drills. This drill will help you to build confidence to play in traffic without looking at your feet.

Wall Catch with Football

Wall catch drill is to work on reaction time and feett. This drill can be performed with a partner. Partner throws a ball off the wall without any notice. The player tries to control the the ball as it bounces off the wall in the air. Giving the back to your partner and repeat. Do it at 30-40 reps. You will become an expert in it. After completing this drill note down your reaction time to be more efficient with ball controll.

Game winner

The game-winner is a drill to get the player used to greeting set quickly and getting off the pitch in the hurry-up situation.

Perfect Play Drill

Perfect Play Drill helps to get the whole team working together, everybody doing his job and relying on the others doing their job. This drill helps the defensive player to take the correct angle.

Boxes Soccer Drill

Boxes Soccer Drill is also known as keep away, rondos, or piggy in the middle. This is a fun drill. The main motive of doing this drill is to keep possession of the ball and away from the opposing team and moving the ball quickly but the only variation is you keep the ball in your feet and not like rugby.

Scramble Drill

Scramble drill is to teach you the skills to scramble and pass receiving rules, and at the same time, it teaches you the correct pass coverage adjustment by the defense. This is both an offensive and defensive drill.

Ball Fight Drill

Ball Fight Drill will make you understand the importance of both ball possession and of fighting for the ball. You will learn the importance of both ball security and of being able to take the ball from the other team.

Conclusion

We’ve discussed the football team training drills. These drills will help to build a strong team that will take you nearer to the wins. Football is a team game. Where each and every player give their best and are important to the team.

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