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Crossing and Finishing
Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on crossing and finishing. There are many variations you can do with this activity. To learn more, check out the DVD...
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Finishing In a Competitive Environment
Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s activity involves finishing in a competitive environment. Start with a 30 x 30 grid with two full sized goals and a keeper in each goal. It’s 2 v...
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Finishing With Combination Play – First Step
Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity is the first step in working on finishing with combination play. Start with groups of 3’s spread out 30 yards from goal. Each...
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Crossing and Finishing
Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activities work on crossing and finishing. There is a series of activities you can use in the DVD Winning Crossing & Finishing. The...
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Shooting Drills Competition Winner
It was difficult to choose a winner in our recent shooting drills competition because we received so many good entries. In the end we picked this exercise from Dennis Hillyard of New York. We were...
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Finishing from Volleys and Headers
I’ve always had a standing challenge to my teams (U13 and below), if they score a headed goal, I buy ice cream for the next practice. It’s been a way to encourage the players to try and score with...
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Progressive Finishing Game
As the year progresses I like to add more functional activities to replace purely technical exercises. Not only do the players enjoy activities that are game related more I’ve also seen a greater...
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Attacking in the Final Third
The June edition of the WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine that is part of the Member Drills Database will have a session from Elmar Bolowich, Head Men’s Coach at Creighton University. He presented it...
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Three Line Shooting
I usually end each session with a shooting exercise that incorporates aspects of the practice theme. One of the formats I often us is a simple three line set-up. I like this because you can do a wide...
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Dutch Up, Back and Through to Finish
Some coaches may consider pattern play to be limiting. They say, ‘I don’t want my players to be robots that just pass and move in the patterns that I’ve taught them.’ I can understand this and I agree...
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This week Mike Saif shares a small-sided game to train crossing and finishing. It’s a great game that can be scaled to the number of players and size of field you’re working with. The diagram is being...
View ArticleTechnical 1 v 1 Game
This week’s Animated Drill Video describes fast paced and competitive exercise that incorporates every technical skill of the game except heading. The diagram is being created with our online Session...
View ArticleProgressive Shooting Session
This week’s Animated Drill Video is a complete training session that uses one field set-up for the entire practice. The size of the area and the length of time you spend on each phase of the session...
View ArticleDutch Y Passing Pattern
This week’s Animated Drill Video includes a very functional passing pattern that can be progressed in many different ways and turned into a shooting pattern as well. [wpsharely...
View ArticleBuilding Pattern Plays
This week’s Animated Drills Video describes a structure that you can use to create passing combinations that will train your team to build up and finish. The diagram is created with the session planner...
View ArticleDiagonal Finishing
This week’s Animated Drills Video is of a finishing activity that puts the emphasis on accuracy and technique over power. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is...
View Article6 v 2 + 2 Breakout
This week’s Animated Drills Video is a great progression to Rondo or other possession games because it give the activity direction and purpose. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet...
View ArticleDiamond Combination Play to Shoot
This week’s Animated Drills Video shows a diamond shooting activity that I first described on the CoachingSoccerWeekly.com podcast in episode 166. There are many different combinations that you could...
View ArticleDon’t Just Follow Your Pass
This week’s Animated Drills Video shows how I’ve changed the movement patterns I use in technical training activities. I first described this on the CoachingSoccerWeekly.com podcast in episode 169. ???...
View ArticleAdding Complexity and Movement to Rondos
This week’s Animated Drills Video shows how you can adjust the rules and restrictions of a rondo to make them more challenging and dynamic. The diagram is being created with the Academy Soccer Coach...
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