Soccer Drills for Kids: Passing, Dribbling and Defending Games

How are these soccer drills different?

Every drill in this library is a game: there is a target to hit, a choice to make or an opponent to beat, so children practise the decisions a match asks of them. Each one lists the ages, numbers, space and time it needs, and how to make it easier or harder.

You have seen the other kind. A line of children behind a cone, one ball, a coach calling out the next name. It looks organised, and most of the time most of the children are waiting.

So every drill here follows three rules we call the 3L rule: no lines, no laps, no lectures. The ball rolls from the first minute, the game does the conditioning, and the rules do most of the teaching.

How to use the drill library

Pick a skill, then pick a drill by the ages and numbers on its card. The drills inside each skill run from the youngest and simplest to the oldest.

• Read the setup and the rules once, then explain them in under 30 seconds.
• Watch two or three minutes before you change anything.
• If it is too hard or too easy, change the space, the touches or the numbers: every drill has an "easier" and a "harder" line.
• Ask the questions in the breaks, never during play.

Any drill can become a whole practice: Hobbit plans the session around it for your age group, your numbers and your space.