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Category and Quick Review: Soccer drills and practice games. Over 40 drills and games are demonstrated indoors, but they will also work outdoors. If you want a good video that demonstrates a lot of drills and practice games, this is it. It also has excellent demonstrations of how to teach heading, of 3 different ways to turn, of shooting, and of 5 soccer moves (the "Matthews Move", "Single Scissors", "Double Scissors", "Step Over" and the "Maradona Move"). Fast paced, clear, practical and well organized. Appropriate for beginning to intermediate coaches of Recreational and select teams.

Why it is important: Good drills and practice games can make practice a lot more effective, efficient and fun; you can achieve more in less time and practice attendance should improve.

Summary and who it is suitable for: This is the best video we've seen for soccer drills and practice games that will work indoors or outdoors for beginning to intermediate coaches, and we've watched over 150 soccer coaching tapes and DVD's. It is suitable for beginning to intermediate coaches of Recreational teams ages U-9 to U-14 or select teams ages U-8 to U-12. Over 40 drills and games are demonstrated. It moves along quickly, is clear, practical and well organized. About 50% of the drills shown can be played as games and many are very good. The games are similar to SoccerHelp Practice Games in many ways. In most cases the activity level is high and standing in lines is minimized. The video also has excellent demonstrations of how to teach heading, of 3 different ways to turn, of shooting, and of 5 soccer moves (the "Matthews Move", "Single Scissors", "Double Scissors", "Step Over" and the "Maradona Move"). Coach Jansen offers tips at the end. Bart Jansen played professional soccer, is an "A" licensed coach and trained in the US, Germany and Italy. This was filmed in New Jersey USA and the players demonstrating the drills and games appear to be age 11 or 12. It is recommended by the National Youth Sports Coaches Association.

Contents:

Minute	Topic
00:00	Introduction
2:20	Ball handling drills and games:
2:20	Shield Ball (like "Sharks and Minnows")
3:30	Sharks (like "Sheep")
4:20	City or Country Game (similar to "Dribble Across A Square")
5:42	3 Is Too Many (a tag game)
6:45	Relay Race
7:34	Passing Drills
8:30	Soccer Bowling
9:15	Neutral Ball (like "Soccer Marbles")
10:00	Line Drill
10:48	Passing Pairs
11:45	Tag Pass
12:30	Passing Square
13:25	Passing Endurance
14:30	Passing Pressure (advanced)
15:30	Heading Teaching Demonstration and Games (excellent demonstration of teaching technique)
16:50	One on One Heading
17:45	Head Ball Game
18:24	5 Attacking Soccer Moves (for U-10 and older)
18:30	Matthews Move
18:50	Single Scissors move
19:25	Double Scissors move
19:55	Step Over move
20:25	Maradona Move
21:10	One on One Drills:
21:10	Line Dribble (good)
21:55	Big Goal/Small Goal (not good)
22:40	Face Off (not very good)
23:40	Soccer Tennis Game
24:20	Foot Skills: 3 ways to turn and change directions
24:35	Inside of foot turn (very good teaching technique)
25:20	Outside of foot turn
26:05	Behind standing leg turn
26:45	Turning drills (called Back Move drills). There are 9 of these that involve use of space, pairs, groups of 3 or more, in combination with passing, scoring, keep away and a small sided scrimmage.
32:40	Possession Games (4 vs. 2 Keep Away and 3 Team Keep Away; we think the SoccerHelp "2 Team Keep Away" is better)
34:15	Shooting (some very good drills and games)
34:15	Stationary Ball (good demonstration of technique)
35:20	Ball Rolling Away From Player (good)
35:50	Ball Rolling Toward Player (very good)
36:10	Shooting Off The Dribble (excellent)
36:45	Shoot Off a "Wall Pass"
37:40	Triangle Shooting (for U-10 and older)
38:28	4 Line Shooting Drill
39:30	3 Line Shooting Drill
40:25	Wall Pass Shooting
41:15	Shooting Game (good)
42:00	Scrimmage Scoring
42:55	5 Quick Tips (dribbling, passing, receiving the ball, shooting, heading)
43:50	Wrap-up
45:00	End

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