The Use of Soccer Passing Drills
The Use of Soccer Passing Drills
By Chuck Weiss
There are lots of soccer passing drills that a soccer coach can use with his or her club. But a coach should be certain that his players have learned all of the different types of passes and have their fundamentals for each down solid before doing extensive drilling as a group.
Many youth soccer programs tend to focus only on the push pass. If a coach sets up group passing drills and all everyone does is use the push pass, then he is seriously limiting his team’s range. Learning the different types of passes is a very useful and effective tool that will give a soccer team a big edge. Even in youth soccer, players should know how to execute a driving pass, a punch pass, high bending passes and bending passes that stay on the ground. Only when his players have mastered at least several of the different types of passes should a coach set up different soccer passing drills that will be used strategically in games.
If you need passing drills to use for your team, you’ll find quite a few different options offered in books and on the Internet. Most that I have found are in the form of diagrams and charts. This is the old-school style and some coaches like to work specifically with these types of diagrams. Personally I believe that video is far superior as a learning tool, as soccer is such a visual game. However, not all video passing drill programs are created equal. You need to find a high quality video program. A set of diagrams to go along with the videos is ideal.
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