Name: Playbook - Prolific Soccer - Drills You MUST Master As A Defender 💪
Uploaded: 2024-04-04T06:32:58.055Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Drills You MUST Master As A Defender 💪

Driven Passing

This exercise helps you learn how to control the ball when the ball is coming down from above your head. It’s okay if you can only do it once or twice. The way you improve is practicing this over and over again. Take a couple juggles, then hit the ball above your head and try to bring the ball down and continue juggling.

High Juggling

This juggling pattern helps to improve your touch with the different surface areas of your feet. You will gain a ton of confidence and control if you can perform this exercise with ease.

Insides, Outsides and Laces Juggling Pattern

This exercise requires only a ball. I will show you examples of 5 different exercises that you can do to improve your close control with the ball. Start slow to get comfortable and then get faster to really improve footwork.

5 Dribbling Drills No Equipment

This exercise is a simple one but very hard on the body so make sure between each repetition, you recover to 100%. Once you are 100%, then you can perform the next repetition.

Do 8 Sprints Without the ball
Do 4 Sprints With the ball on your right foot
Do 4 Sprints With the ball on your left foot

Sprints With & Without Ball ⚽️

This exercise is a basic requirement to play soccer at a higher level. You have to master this technique. Once you do, the game becomes so much easier. Some tips: 
1. Make sure your head and chest are leaning over the ball. Make sure you aren’t leaning back too much.
2. Hit through the center of the ball. Do not hit the bottom or top of the ball.
3. Make sure you start slow and then start to give the passes some pace once you are comfortable.
4. Always be ready and stay on your toes.

One Touch Wall Passing

One Touch. 2 with the Right and 2 with the Left

This exercise makes sure you get comfortable with different surfaces of your feet such as the outsides of your feet. The goal here is to hit the ball more on the laces part of your outside foot.

Drills You MUST Master As A Defender 💪

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