Soccer Practice Objectives

Each week you have a limited time for practice. It is important to maximize the quality of the time you do have in order to cover many topics and to give your team ample time to work on each one. Therefore, having a plan for soccer practice is vital to you success.

There are many skills that every soccer player must work on and perfect such as trapping, dribbling, and shooting and making sure to cover each topic is important. It is also important to be able to track what you have done as well as know where you want to go. Making sure to plan it out on paper allows you to track everything.

The drills your team does should progress over the entire season. You don’t want to be working on the same thing over and over, but at the same time each drill should have an element of familiarity and fit into the larger context of a soccer game. Your players should know what is important to take from each drill, but you don’t want to over coach them because the drill should be the teacher.

Players on teams led by “plan-less” coaches don’t stand nearly as good of a chance at improving their game as players who have prepared coaches. If you are a coach, you owe it to your team to put effort into developing a plan for training your team that will improve their play and give them a chance for future soccer success. Get a complete season soccer plan