As coaches, we know that there are many things that contribute to a young soccer player’s success. Our job becomes one of identifying where individual players ( as well as our team) are at in terms of their developmental abilities and then choosing the right activities to help them improve their skills.

When I say “good activities” I mean ones that are fundamentally sound, keep the kids moving, develop good habits, and make them think about the game as a whole.

This book provides you with 180 activities designed to work on warmingup, dribbling, passing, receiving, communicating, spacing, supporting, possessing, passing, conditioning, heading, goal keeping, finishing, defending, offending, and many other techniques and tactics.

I feel these activities are suitable because they’ve been tried and tested by many soccer coaches and teams.

You’ll notice that this is a collection of material gathered from my experience as a coach, my summer soccer camp experiences, talking with other coaches, and from coaches who subscribe to my soccer newsletter available at finesoccer.com.

In addition to specific drills, there are many activities designed to be used as scrimmages at the end of practice.

I highly recommend spending some time during or towards the end of your practice to play games that include the skills your players were working on.

The kids will have more fun and you will be surprised at how the carry over from practicing these skills in a small or adapted version of the game improves the players overall real soccer game performance.