 Whether you're a parent trying to help your child improve you're a coach with a team of young players or You're a player yourself, and you just want to improve your skills. These are some soccer drills for kids Let's do some soccer drills for kids Do not start with fancy skills like that if you don't know about me I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement I found my success earned a college scholarship played for my national futsal team a YouTube channel with over 100 million views I've helped players worldwide, and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more because Kids get caught up in things that don't really matter When you get your basics down then you can do Cool tricks like that, but in this video. I want to talk about Some soccer drills for kids, but anyone who wants to improve their skills beginners And also I want to talk from the perspective of a parent or a coach trying to help your kid improve so First of all Footwork stuff that you've seen a hundred times. Yes little ones when you're five years old three years old taps they're doing these little ball things Okay, these are silly, but it's just building a comfort with the ball different touches in different ways when you get that foundation then It's moving so moving forward Moving backwards and I'm going to guess there's a lot of players who consider themselves advanced They cannot manipulate the ball With these basic skills so forward these roles Just getting your kid comfortable with the ball Moving in different ways now when you're a parent or a coach Especially with the young kids Do not over coach let them figure it out themselves. Give them a drill give them the guidance But if you're trying to get a 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 them a tip Every second time they touch the ball or every 20 seconds It's too much information. They are smart enough to figure it out on their own, but you have to give them the chance So start with those footwork drills, okay Then encouraging Basic dribbling running with the ball most kids when they start It's awkward to run with the ball Just encourage them to run in a straight line With the ball become natural with this Okay, so head is up It's nice natural stride Arms are moving it's flowing It's not awkward It's in my natural strides with the outside of my foot when I want to turn inside outside. I would start inside outside and Roll back like that when they get comfortable you can go Croy and Focusing on like I always say quality of the touch but also quality of the movement Getting low to the ground when you turn From a young age and if you notice always using both feet So I would start there if you want to use cones cones can be good My only problem with cones is it's not always match realistic. However When we're talking about young kids We just want to get them comfortable in the ball lots of touches the way to improve is through repetitions We all want to get better But if we analyze how much we're actually practicing and how much time we're actually spending on the ball how many touches You're actually getting on the ball The reason I have a decent touch is not because I was naturally given that skill It's because I've spent tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of hours on the ball has a young kid to now and still improving every day Okay, so first one Just these little touches let them go in and out of the cones with as many touches as they want Next I would do like an inside tap Something like that Okay, learning to manipulate the ball moving with the ball because in a game Yes, these are good But I don't receive the ball and do this on the spot if I do that. I'm gonna get tackled. I'm gonna get it in trouble So encouraging them to use different skills, but moving with the ball when They start to get a little bit of success add the speed Okay, when you're training whether your kid parent coach and encouraging your kid to train If they're going nice and easy because they don't want to screw up That is not going to make them better It's gonna give them a little bit of confidence in practice But when they get in the field and there's pressure and you have to play faster They're not going to be ready. So training by yourself or training your kid encourage them to go fast pick up the speed and Make mistakes just like this because if I'm not making mistakes. I'm not learning if I'm if it's always easy Matches are going to be hard, but if my training is hard. I'm making mistakes Because I'm pushing the speed I'm getting tired. I'm learning to play with heavy legs My practice is hard the game is going to be easier Okay, so those are some things that I would recommend for young kids soccer drills for kids to get started as far as footwork and ball mastery Bit of dribbling Next you can do some ball control And I talked about this in different videos But for a young kid, this is probably where it is kick and catch Okay, kick Back to me you can start with a bounce catch catch getting good backspin on the ball Keeping it to you trying to replicate the same touch doesn't go somewhere else every every other time Okay, backspin on the ball. So I'm hitting here Forcing the ball to come back to me so I can keep control of it if that's easy start like this kick bounce Okay, just keep control of that ball wherever it goes Move your feet a lot of kids they have a decent touch But when you watch them juggle so flat-footed so as soon as the ball gets away, it's gone They're not even trying to get there you will get there more times than you believe if You just have a little more sharpness in your toes if that ball goes I'm quick to get under it Okay, if it goes don't give up on it. Go and get it right away so kick and catch Little curl or a little bounce in between something like that Then as I always say encourage to do basic juggling set your record if the record today is five That's fine. That's where you start tomorrow. You try to make it six Next you could do air controls Which we've all seen before okay If the if your child if the kid is struggling to Kick the ball up with their hands start here Or start kick the ball up with their feet Start with the hands, but receiving in different ways. Okay, so inside the foot Outside of the foot anything you want But controlling out of the air and controlling With different parts of the body when you're doing this the objective is To bring that ball down to the ground as quickly as possible. You'll see the difference here a Lot of kids. This is their first touch They're going through the ball rather than Bringing the ball down to the ground. So think about Getting the ball down to the ground as quickly as possible so you can play Faster have a good speed of play you have watched some of my videos You've seen me here before and especially for young kids. I think this is one of the best places you can be It's with a ball and a wall getting more repetitions remember I said The way you want to improve your skills faster is more repetitions Everyone thinks that they're doing enough or they're getting enough touches on the ball when really they're not so if I'm practicing Shooting by myself in a field. I'm getting one shot in the time that I could get 20 shots. Okay, so especially as a young kid It's all about repetitions the more repetitions you get into each foot The more confident they will become so let's sit talk about passing They can just do basic passing on a wall for a young kid. It's probably too touch to start really short distance to touch Focusing on good contact good first touch get it out of your feet and What am I always doing? I'm playing with both feet all the time if you're a parent Encourage your child to play with both feet from the very beginning It's okay if they have one foot that's better or one that they favor and they use it more in a match But when they're training by themselves Really encourage one with the right one with the left. Okay, so super basic Hey, those touches receiving in different ways. I have other passing tutorials if you want to see but really short distance on The toes good quality pass body over the ball fall through to the contact fall through to the target flex foot light on the toes both feet Okay, next Practice shooting against a wall Good contact with the laces. It's probably where you want to start Okay, again both feet. It's not about power. All this is is about Getting good flush contact Off the laces. I'm just trying to make good contact With the laces because a lot of kids will struggle. They'll either hit it on the inside of the foot Or they'll hit it on the outside especially on the weaker foot. It feels awkward. They twist it try to get really good straight flex contact Through the ball. It can just start like that Okay touch just push through the ball push through the center of the ball make it go forward flex contact With both feet now as I said Give them a few tips, especially if you're a coach with young players or a parent trying to help your child improve Give them a few tips. Let them get a whole bunch of repetitions. They will figure it out as a player You need to be smart enough To not do the same thing a hundred times in a row if you keep pulling that ball to the left Don't allow yourself to do that anymore. Ask. Why is the ball always going over there? What do I need to change about my technique if you have that mindset every time you practice it improves so much faster because so many players Yes, they're putting in the time but what they're getting out of that practice time is not good enough because They may be getting repetitions But they're not analyzing those repetitions don't practice just to practice practice with the intention of getting better and in order to do that I Have to actually think about what I'm doing. I have to analyze. Why did it go there? Why was it a good pass? Why was it a good shot? Why was it a bad shot? Take that information learn from your mistakes. Remember if you're making mistakes, that's a good thing. It means you can improve Faster so don't get frustrated especially as a young kid As a parent when your child does something good praise them give them encouragement Tell them that was good encourage them to do that again As a player You need to have that same mindset or the same self-talk in your own head because if you tell yourself you always suck You're always gonna suck if you tell yourself, okay today. I'm just gonna get a little bit better What can I do to make that happen? 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