 If you want to take care of the ball there, become a better playmaker. These are soccer passing drills you can do by yourself. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever. But through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. I earned a college scholarship, played for my national football 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. In this video, I want to give you some soccer passing drills that you can do by yourself. But before we get into the drills, let's just talk about passing technique. In my opinion, passing, receiving, those are the two most important skills in soccer, in football. If you can't pass a ball, you're not accurate. You give away your passes. You're going to give away possession. Your teammates aren't going to want to pass you the ball. Take care of the ball when you have it. And if you want to do that, you have to be a good passer. So let's talk about technique. So first of all, playing with the inside of the foot. I want to make nice, flush contact. I want to make a nice, flat surface. If my foot is angled in any way, it's not going to go straight. If I want this ball to go straight, I need this foot to be straight, okay? So nice, flat surface for the ball to make contact with. And when I push through it, I want to keep that flat, okay? And even I can see I'm going a little bit that way. So think about stepping through the ball, keeping this nice and flat, nice and firm. If this is weak, if this is weak, my pass is going to be weak, okay? So a lot of people, they'll have good contact, but when they, they'll have good foot flexion, but when they make contact, the foot goes weak, okay? You're good till here, and then you hit it, and then you come weak. So focus on keeping your foot nice and firm, keeping a nice, flat surface for the ball to make contact with, keeping it through the ball, stepping through to your target, not chopping from back here. Obviously, sometimes in a game, the pass might get away from you, and yes, you do have to play a pass. 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. Leaning back, but whenever possible, don't lunge on your passes, get over the ball, step through it, really overemphasize your technique, step towards your target, okay? Depending on the solid pass that you're doing, maybe you're doing a weighted pass, but if you're hitting into your teammate's feet and you want it to get there without getting intercepted, put a bit of pace on it, okay? Ball stays on the ground. You don't want bouncing balls, so if you're hitting passes and it's coming up off the ground right away, you're hitting too low on the ball. So try to hit through the center of the ball. My foot is staying on the ground, but I'm hitting through the center of the ball. If you're leaning back, if you're getting too far under, it's going to pop up, okay? So get on top of the ball, nice foot contact, over it, fall through towards your target, and analyze every pass. When you're practicing with your teammates, let's say you're warming up. How many times you're just passing, yeah, whatever, pass, let's start the practice. Every pass you make, whether it's warm-up, practice, drill, in a game, take pride in those passes, do not give the ball away. The other thing I like you to think about is playing with all parts of the feet, especially the outside. I feel like young players are discouraged from playing passes with the outside of the foot. If I want to start putting a little bit of spin, a little bit of curl in the ball, if I want to start playing around people, what I mean by that is, if I know the defender is there, I can't play a pass across my body. It's easy for him to intercept. I have to shape the pass. So maybe that's with the inside of the foot. Maybe that's with the outside of the foot. But if I don't have the ability to do those things because I can only pass one way with one foot, I'm going to get my passes intercepted. So learning to play with the outside of the foot, experiment with it, we'll do these in these drills, but same principles apply. Make strong contact. If you have a weak limb foot, you're going to have a weak pass. Get over it when you can, step through to your target. Okay, so when you're practicing, think about these things that we talked about, but take pride in your passing. Don't give the ball away. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy. Don't give the ball away. Let me give you some different passing drills that you can use. Now, if you're practicing by yourself, best tool for training on your own, especially passing, shooting, is a wall. So here I have a wall. It's going to be my partner. It's going to pass the ball back to me every time. He's never going to get tired. And I'm going to do a bunch of different drills that you can use to improve your passing skills. First, let's just play two touch. Yeah. So everything we talked about, good passing technique, body over the ball, open up the foot, playing with both feet. The only other thing I would focus on here when you're doing this is this first touch. Okay, because if I want to play two touch, if I want to play two touch and that ball sticks in my feet here, it's difficult to play two touch. It's difficult to get a good pass, the pass that you want. So focus on the quality of this first touch, not so far that you lose control of it, not so weak and so close that you can't play quickly, but just out of your feet so you can touch, quickly pass, quickly step into it. Okay, the other thing I want you to notice with all these is it's on the toes. It's not flat footed like this. If you practice like this, you play like this. So when you're doing these drills, focus on the quality, the sharpness of movement. Always on the toes, quick to react, because if there is a bad pass, I can quickly get there, set my feet, play that pass. Okay, so start two touch. Next you can go into playing two touch in different ways. Let's play same foot as I've been doing. Same foot, okay, get 50 reps on your right, 50 reps on your left, good technique. When you're doing this, focus on one spot on the wall, hit that spot every time. Play two feet. So receive left, receive right, or pass rate. Receive left, pass rate, good quality on every pass. Then you can receive into space, okay, so don't always stop the ball dead, especially in the game, if I always stop it here, I'm easy to defend. Attack with your first touch, get away from the defender with your first touch. So into space, play your pass, into space, play your pass. Be creative, different techniques, play your pass, good. You can play one touch, okay, so again on the toes, focus on quality. When you're playing one touch, the contact point, the focus on the contact point becomes even more important. So you can see when I'm hitting these passes, I'm over the ball, but a lot of people will hit their pass, and they're not even looking at the ball, they're already looking at the target. Yes, you want to have your head up, but when it's time to make contact, find the center of the ball, if you want to make it go straight, and actually watch your foot to the center of the ball, so you make good contact, okay, but play one touch and sharpness of the feet, playing with both feet, inside the foot, if I ever don't like my technique, say I had a bad pass on my left, I'm not just going to go back to my right, I'm going to come back to my left, I might get an extra 10, really tighten it up until I'm happy with that technique, then I'll move forward, okay, you can play half turn, as we did, better touch, half turn, as we did in midfielder drill, okay, focus on receiving, but the quality of your passes still there, then you can play distances, so play right here, quick on the toes, the harder you pass it, the faster it's going to come back, practice passing from different distances, and even coming way back here, you can start slow, but build up to it, you can play like a driven pass, driven pass with the laces, ping on the ground, you can play in the air, but I would just start practicing playing a driven pass on the ground, good, and the one that we didn't talk about was that outside of the foot, okay, so practice start here, touch across the body, better touch than that, outside of the foot, around the defender, curl it around the defender, around the corner to your teammate, little through ball into space, but first of all, when you're doing this one, I'll ask my, I'll ask grown men to do this in practice, they can't figure it out, if I want to play the outside of my foot, this touch has to come across my body, if I'm receiving the ball here, and I want to play outside of the foot, that's not what I'm asking you to do, there's no point really in doing that in a game, okay, so if you want to play outside of the foot, take that touch across your body and step, step into it, if you're struggling on this one, it's usually because your ankle flexion isn't strong enough, your foot technique isn't strong enough, so really, don't hit it with a weak link, weak limp ankle, and don't hit it back here, okay, flex, get over it, step through it, flex, step through it, if you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner, you can download it for free, there's a link in the description below, and for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy.