 If you play in the midfield and you want to improve your game, these are some soccer drills for midfielders Let's do some drills for midfielders And I'm going to show you a couple different drills that you can use to improve midfielder specific skills The first one I want to do is just dribbling but really focusing on dribbling with the head up Awareness if you're dribbling in the midfield like this With your head down all this time. You're gonna get yourself into trouble. So I have some balls set up here If you don't have balls, you can use cones. If you don't have cones, you don't need any balls at all You can just use open space, but the purpose of this is dribbling still keeping control of the ball but head up head up After you make a few touches Get your head up keep shoulder checking awareness. Where's the pass? Where's your teammate? But don't lose the ball But keep that head up in the beginning you might be dribbling like this Pop up every once in a while because you your touch isn't quite there yet But get in the habit of getting your head up over time. I Don't even have to look at the ball. I know where it is. I can feel it with my peripherals. I can see with my peripheral vision Then obviously You're gonna have to look down every so often But as a midfielder you need to get in this habit of constantly being aware of where the spaces teammates are When you're in possession of the ball Hey, what's up? I hope you're finding this content helpful Watch this all the way to the end if you want to find out which subscriber got this video's special shout out so as a midfielder Passing Keeping possession very important but also awareness as we did in the dribbling drill This here as a midfielder is everything Okay, so if you are receiving a pass and All you're looking at is the ball You have no idea Where you're where you can get tackled from where the defenders are coming? You have no idea where your teammates are if you want to play one touch if you want to release the ball quickly So in order to play faster you have to incorporate Scanning the field awareness shoulder checking all the time. Okay, so before that ball is coming to me Before I'm playing my pass at all times I Can't give you a rule of check your shoulder one time because that's not how it works The more you check your shoulder the better as long as you can still receive the ball Okay, but when that ball is coming try to find where the space is Turn bit of skill play that pass Yeah, bit of skill, but play that pass shoulder check Cool again. Okay, so the first part of this drill is Scanning the field shoulder checking next part. Look at how I'm receiving the ball So as a midfielder whenever I can I Want to try to receive half turn that means I'm turning my body before I touch the ball a lot of players They want to go that way, but their first touch is here second touch here third touch there If you want to play quicker, I don't even need a touch and I'm already doing the same thing that you just did Okay, so focused on receiving the ball either opening up your body if the weight of the pass is soft enough that you can run with it or my touch Can I turn Quickly and take that touch back into me or even just receiving here Is a lot better, but you can't do that If you haven't done the shoulder checking first because if you don't know who's there and you turn into trouble Boom get tackled. Okay, so shoulder check first half turn Bit of skill here do whatever you want have fun the final thing is Quality of the pass so as a midfielder specifically, but every player take pride in your passing So when I play that pass Getting over the ball okay, I'm really So many of us we have we're playing passes and we'll just do it so casually Because it's just a pass. It's just a five-yard pass How many times in the game have you given a way a five-year pass especially when you get tired? So every pass I want to see a little emphasis A little um pride quality. I'm getting over it a bit more Okay, so I'm getting over the ball a bit more I'm not passing up here if I don't have to sometimes you have to lunge for a pass, but when you can Get over it a bit more and really over emphasize your technique If my foot is weak It's limp like this I'm not going to have an accurate pass if I really open that up tighten it up fall through Towards my target take pride in my passing flex that foot Every pass is going to be better. So when you do this drill quality in your passing and I didn't even shoulder shack got myself in trouble Little bit of skill and as always I'm playing with both feet In this drill we're going to do some long passing and if you only have One ball find a wall ping it against that wall let it bounce back to you Go again, but if you have a few balls and you want to try hitting into a net Just get that ball out of your feet play a driven pass good technique Into the net Try to hit the back of the net without the ball bouncing. Okay, so good technique driven pass focus on And if you can don't just have a dead ball Go and hit it because in a match. That's not realistic. You're either coming off a turn or dribble getting your head up good technique Driven pass Let's do better than that And maybe you missed the net But you go again There you go driven pass. Okay after you play that you can run to the other side Get your balls again So depending on the distance a little bit of fitness come get it out of your feet Driven pass again and like always oh crossbar. Oh camera I'm always playing with both feet. So as I said, it's better for you to practice off a dribble. It's more realistic Get that ball down. Good technique Playing with both feet There we go. Beautiful This drill is about shooting, but I want to make it midfielder specific so I have my trusty box if You don't have a teammate find something like I said in another video. This is a piece of wood So if you're going to make the excuse of I don't have a box be creative find something Because that's a beautiful tool if you have no one to practice with Okay, but I'm playing this pass Here I want to I want to focus on Getting my shot off quickly, but opening up so I'll play that As you can see I'm receiving that on a half turn. I'm not receiving like this And then turning and then trying to beat him I'm not receiving away from goal if I don't have to I'm playing this and I'm already open on him touch Strike hit the net score the goal Okay, so again play the pass Open up quick touches And get it on that don't worry about the quality of the shot to start just hit the target Play that pass is a flat ball kept away And go again It's good for me to show you guys misses Because everyone misses If you miss get the ball go again. Hey, you can do this in different variations The other way That you should practice if we're making this midfielder specific Would be something like this imagine you're receiving the ball off A defender half turn a bit of skill Take the shot. Let's get a better shot now that we demoed Half turn touch And a better shot go again half turn There we go Practice till you get it like I said before if I have a bad shot I'm not just going to move on go back to my strong foot I'm going to go back and try to replicate that same shot until I get it the way that I want Okay, so that's two areas two ways to practice this But as a midfielder it's receiving Half turn not receiving with your back to goal Not receiving here here then go at him Running with the ball bit of quick skill Get your shot off quickly Missing the net too many times That's the corner Okay, so this is a great drill to practice shooting as a midfielder This is the featured subscriber for this video If you'd like to be featured in future videos hit that like button Drop a comment below and let me know how my content has helped you improve as a player