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There are ten core technical soccer skills. Soccer Classroom will help you to learn the best soccer drills, which are used in training and developing players. While it is great to teach the soccer rules, as youth soccer coaches, skill development is really the heart of our work. How do we coach dribbling, shooting and ball control skills so our players can compete successfully and enjoy the game? It can be all so overwhelming.

By first understanding the capabilities of our players, we can form “age appropriate” soccer training practices where players can succeed. We explore hundreds of soccer drills within this context of core development and provide tips and tricks for inexperienced coaches to make drills “work” – because sometimes even the best, tried and true drills don’t work some days. This is really the fun part of soccer – teaching the magic of touch!

Youth soccer drills should be the focus of every team because when players are able to control the ball and display their skills, they are can understand the game and play their soccer position effectively.

Core soccer skills: Agility, Warm-Up, Dribbling, Passing, Shooting, Trapping, Defending, Heading, Throw-Ins, Goalkeeping

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How to Do a Rainbow [OSA Video]

How to do a Soccer Rainbow is this week’s Online Soccer Academy soccer training video. The Soccer Rainbow is a classic soccer trick to do when showing off for your friends and to excite the fans and escape a defender in a soccer game!

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How to do a Pull Back V Soccer Move [OSA Video]

Video is courtesy of OnlineSoccerAcademy demonstrating how to do a pull back v while dribbling a soccer ball. As Jared explains, this is a great move while trying to change direction and escape a defender.

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Best Soccer Goals: US Soccer Winter Academy

Check out the awesome composure from these players! Here are the best soccer goals from the US Development Winter Academy. There is obviously some real technical skill here to be able to shoot a soccer ball like some of these amazing finishes. Enjoy!

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How to Coach your Players to Become Ball-Winning Machines

Players who consistently win 50/50 balls are the most important players on your team. A team of ball winners will control the game and dictate play. And, without the ball, skillful players might as well be cones on the field.

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Soccer Coaching Made Dead Simple: The CoachingSphere

We developed the CoachingSphere as a framework to help you visualize your role as coach and to cultivate the best development of players and teams. The five areas are: team management, player psychology, technical skills & drills, soccer tactics and fitness & nutrition. Utilizing this framework enables us to easily break down each of the [...]

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Should Young Soccer Players Use Throw-ins?

Soccer Classroom believes that coaches at  U6 and U8 should not utilize throw-ins as a method of putting the ball back into play. The reasons for this: Agility skills are still being developed and throwing a ball in properly is very difficult at these ages We spend all our time explaining  to these young soccer [...]

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