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Technical skills
Dribbling, passing, shooting, first touch, 1v1, finishing.
Soccer drills for 12 year olds: what changes after U10
Soccer drills for 12 year olds stop being about performing a skill and start being about performing it under pressure. Combination play, first touch, decisions, and the first supervised light load at U11 and U12.
Solo soccer drills your kid can do at home
Solo soccer drills are the ones a kid can run with a ball, a wall, and whatever space is behind the house. Here is a complete 20-minute session for U10 through U12, in five timed blocks.
First touch drills soccer players can do alone at home
First touch drills soccer players can run alone need a wall, a ball and 15 minutes. Here is what a good first touch actually is, eight named drills, and a 20-minute session scaled for U10 to U12.
Soccer drills for 10 year olds: what to run, in what order
The soccer drills for 10 year olds worth running are the high-touch ones: toe-taps, sole rolls, pull-backs, cone weaves, wall passing, and 1v1 to a line. Ball mastery first, decision-making last, in a 20-minute session.