When you’re dedicating yourself to soccer training in order to get better on the field, the most “fun” skills to practice might be shooting and dribbling. After all, who doesn’t want to weave through hapless defenders and fire shots into the goal? But if you want to make the most significant improvements to your game, […]
Individual Soccer Training
Weak Foot Soccer Drills: How to Improve Your Non-Dominant Foot
In soccer, most of us prefer to use one foot to the other. When training, in both team and individual settings, we are easily tempted to give our strong foot the most attention with our drills and exercises. (Just to be clear: strong and dominant mean the same thing as do weak and non-dominant; it’s […]
Soccer Moves and Exercises You Can Practice Inside at Home
Soccer Fundamentals Explained: The Best Skills to Have and How to Improve Them
There are a variety of skills that everyone needs to master in order to be successful playing soccer. You likely have heard coaches or other people in the game calling these skills the “soccer fundamentals” which are particularly important. Some of these skills are fairly obvious. For example, even if you’re a beginner I’m sure […]
Should Soccer Players Practice Barefoot?
Some of our soccer training articles have focused on the importance of getting the right shoes for the right situation (indoor or outdoor, youth or adult, etc.). This is all sound advice, but today’s article will take things in a very different direction: playing without wearing any shoes at all! This may sound like something […]
How to Get Better at Juggling at Home in your Backyard
Little to no time is spent on this soccer skill at soccer practice even though it will make you a better player. What skill am I talking about? Juggling, of course. Working on your juggling skills at home will make you a better soccer player. And the other great thing is that the exercise requires […]
The Best Soccer Dribbling Drill (for Beginners to Elite Players)
How many touches on the ball should a soccer player get per day, or even per week? It really depends on how good YOU want to be because your team’s soccer practices aren’t making you a better player. You do not get enough touches just by going to practice. You MUST practice outside your scheduled […]
5 Ways to Improve Your Soccer Skills in Your Backyard
One major theme that we always try to show players is that in order to get better at soccer, you need to put in work outside of official team practices. Individual training, encompassing technical skills and fitness work, is just as big a part of improving your game, if not even more so. Here are […]
2 Soccer Fitness Tests for Your Training: 120s and Man U
Summer coming to an end is a surefire sign that it’s time to make sure you are properly fit to start your soccer season. But no matter what the time of year, achieving a high level of fitness is crucial so working on conditioning is important year-round. Becoming soccer fit takes hard work, sweat and […]
Soccer Juggling: Tips and Drills for Improving Your Game
image credit When you’re looking for the best ways to practice your soccer skills by yourself, there’s one exercise you can do that’s very simple but also does wonders for your touch and control. I’m talking, of course, about juggling. Juggling can be difficult to master, but you don’t need to do anything super advanced […]
