Soccer Drills: Skill-Builders for Field Control

by Albert M. Luongo

Overview

Without the proper all-around skills, no soccer player can reach his or her potential, and without skilled players, no team can play on the championship level. Players and coaches, then, need more than just a routine collection of offensive drills to be successful. In addition to goal scoring, players need instruction in ball or field control, perhaps the most important skill that needs to be mastered.

This handbook is designed to help the soccer coach, amateur or expert, to instruct players in, first, the most elementary skills, building up to the drills for sophisticated "plays" common in higher levels of game play. This book illustrates the exact method for teaching each individual skill, showing correct body positions and the various progressive stages of each drill.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786406821
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	11/15/1999
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Albert M. Luongo has coached, managed or refereed in various youth soccer leagues for over 15 years. Also the author of The Soccer Handbook for Players, Coaches and Parents (1996), he lives in Rhode Island.

Table of Contents

	List of Figures and Illustrations	viii
	Introduction	1
	The Illustrations and Figures	5
1.	Background for the Drills	7
	On Soccer Organizations	7
	On Trapping, Shielding and Aggression	10
	On Competitiveness and Balanced Aggression	12
	On Defense	14
	The Overall View of This Book	16
	The Overall View on Drills	17
2a.	Basic Field Drills--Offensive	19
Drill 2.1.	The Instep Kick	19
Drill 2.2.	The Low Inside-of-the-Foot Trap for Ground Balls	24
Drill 2.3.	The Chest Trap	27
Drill 2.4.	Basic Dribbling	32
Drill 2.5.	Basic Shielding While Dribbling	34
Drill 2.6.	Push-Pass	38
Drill 2.7.	The Under-the-Foot Trap and an Introduction to Shielding-While-Trapping	38
Drill 2.8.	Heading	42
Drill 2.9.	The Basic Throw-In Drill	45
2b.	Basic Field Drills--Defensive	48
Drill 2.10.	Basic Backing-Up Defense Drill	48
Drill 2.11.	Preliminary Shielding Immediately After Trapping	52
3a.	Goalkeeping Drills--Basic	56
Drill 3.1.	Tipping the Ball Over the Top of the Goal	58
Drill 3.2.	Tipping the Ball Over the Side of the Goal	61
Drill 3.3.	Punching the Ball	63
Drill 3.4.	Catching Air Balls	66
Drill 3.5.	Catching Ground Level Balls and Goalkeeper's Throws	70
Drill 3.6.	The Goalkeeper's Kick (Punting)	71
Drill 3.7.	Lunging	73
3b.	Goalkeeping Drills--Advanced	77
Drill 3.8.	Goalkeeping Defense	77
Drill 3.9.	Goalkeeper Corner Kick Defense	80
Drill 3.10.	Defense on Breakaways	83
4.	Intermediate Field Drills--Offensive	86
Drill 4.1.	High Ball Inside-of-the-Foot Trap	86
Drill 4.2.	Intermediate Dribbling	88
Drill 4.3.	Intermediate Shielding	90
Drill 4.4.	The Body Trap	92
Drill 4.5.	The Outside-of-the-Foot Kick	95
Drill 4.6.	Jump and Bounce	97
Drill 4.7.	The Duck Bill Kick	98
Drill 4.8.	Stationary Rolling Ball	99
Drill 4.9.	Sliding Tackle	101
Drill 4.10.	Intermediate Backing-Up Defense Tactic	102
Drill 4.11.	Shoulder Charge Tackle	106
5a.	Mid-Advanced Drills--Intermediate Offensive	110
Drill 5.1.	Turning While Dribbling	110
Drill 5.2.	The Top-of-the-Thigh Trap	113
Drill 5.3.	The Blind Cross	116
Drill 5.4.	The Non-Blind Cross	121
Drill 5.5.	Penalty Kicks	124
Drill 5.6.	Walls	127
Drill 5.7.	The Outside-of-the-Foot Trap	129
Drill 5.8.	The Under-the-Body Instep Kick	132
Drill 5.9.	Head Trapping	134
5b.	Mid-Advanced Drills--Intermediate Defensive	138
Drill 5.10.	Person to Person Defense in the Defensive Area	138
6a.	Advanced Field Drills--Offensive	142
Drill 6.1.	Once-On Kick	142
Drill 6.2.	The Toe-Poke Kick	144
Drill 6.3.	Dribbling Fake for Passing an Opponent	146
Drill 6.4.	Team Throw-In	151
Drill 6.5.	Three Person Attack on Goal/Wing Follow-Up	155
Drill 6.6.	Two Person Attack on Goal	157
Drill 6.7.	Halfback and Wing Overlap with Shot	159
Drill 6.8.	Kickoff with Overlapping Wing Positions	162
Drill 6.9.	Side-of-the-Thigh and Calf Traps	165
Drill 6.10.	Passing, Goalkeeper to Defense	169
6b.	Advanced Field Drills--Defensive	173
Drill 6.11.	Monkey in the Middle	173
Drill 6.12.	Defensive Scrimmage	175
Drill 6.13.	Standing Block Tackle	178
	Index	181

Editorial Reviews

[a] follow-up to The Soccer Handbook for Players, Coaches and Parents...provides strategies and philosophies aimed at improving the quality of North American soccer. Thirty-eight illustrations—with clear and concise legends—provide an easy-to-follow visual guide for various playing techniques. Recommend[ed]”—VOYA.

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