The following two soccer drills will help your U10 players to improve their dribbling. The first exercise is a dribbling game with hurdles, the second an easy to organize competition.
Practical Soccer Training for under 10 years
In part 2 of the series “Children and Youth Soccer”, Peter Schreiner and Willy Kaspers will present 10 warm-up games, 10 warm-up exercises and 10 training forms for dribble training.
Ball-Transport and dribble competition
Organization
Rectangle 20m x 10m with 6 hurdles in two colors (yellow and orange here), divide
6 to 8 players in 2 groups.
Procedure
- The players dribble free in space for one minute and pass the ball through the hurdles.
- The hurdles should be high enough so that the ball does not touch the pole.
- At the orange gates, the children run around the goal and try to control the ball as quickly as possible and dribble on to the next goal.
- At the yellow gates, the children jump over the pole.
- A team tries to score as many goals as possible in one minute.
- The other team dribbles freely in space. So the kids not only have to score goals, but also avoide the opponent.
- A goal does not count if a hurdle has been touched.
Variation
- Only pass with the left or right foot
Ball-Transport and dribble competition
Organization
Build up the course – depending on the number of children – multiple times as shown in the figure above and form teams of three players, each player a ball.
Procedure
- At the sign of the coach, the first players of each team start with a short pass.
- Then the players run around the square (1 x 1m), control the ball and dribble around the 3 bars (yellow bars mean: Inside left and red bars inside right.
- They play a short pass through the hurdle and jump over it.
- They put the ball in one of the three rings and run back through the course and clap
- Then the next player starts.
- Each player has a ring. (4 rings for 4 players)
- The ball must remain in the ring, if it rolls out, the player must run back and put it in again.
- Which team is the fastest?
Practical Soccer Training for under 10 years
In part 2 of the series “Children and Youth Soccer”, Peter Schreiner and Willy Kaspers will present 10 warm-up games, 10 warm-up exercises and 10 training forms for dribble training.
