Coach Gentile explains how players can use their own backyard for soccer drills. Listen and learn 4 drills you can practice today in your yard.

1. Backyard Soccer
Drills for Players
Coach Dina

2. JUGGLING
• Touches, touches, touches!
• Center of the ball, center of your foot (or any
other body part)

3. JUGGLING
• Touches, touches, touches!
• Center of the ball, center of your foot (or any
other body part)
• Double your age!
• Challenge yourself with patterns
– Right Foot, Right Foot, Catch….
– Right Foot, Left Foot, Catch….
– Left Foot, Thigh, Right Foot, Catch…..

4. OFF THE WALL
• Find any wall (ask your parents first), and just
pass and receive the ball (three touches, two
touches, one touch…create combinations)

5. OFF THE WALL
• Find any wall (ask your parents first), and just
pass and receive the ball (three touches, two
touches, one touch…create combinations)
• You can set up areas on the wall to practice
accuracy.

6. OFF THE WALL
• Find any wall (ask your parents first), and just
pass and receive the ball (three touches, two
touches, one touch…create combinations)
• You can set up areas on the wall to practice
accuracy.
• You can play hard passes to work on
controlling the ball.

7. OFF THE WALL
• Find any wall (ask your parents first), and just
pass and receive the ball (three touches, two
touches, one touch…create combinations)
• You can set up areas on the wall to practice
accuracy.
• You can play hard passes to work on
controlling the ball.
• You can play ball in the air to hit the wall

8. OFF THE WALL
• Find any wall (ask your parents first), and just
pass and receive the ball (three touches, two
touches, one touch…create combinations)
• You can set up areas on the wall to practice
accuracy.
• You can play hard passes to work on
controlling the ball.
• You can play ball in the air to hit the wall
• Try wall passes, turns, create your own
challenges!

9. CONE ACTION
• If you do not have cones use any items to
create areas to dribble around or dribble to.

10. CONE ACTION
• If you do not have cones use any items to
create areas to dribble around or dribble to.
• Figure 8’s

11. CONE ACTION
• If you do not have cones use any items to
create areas to dribble around or dribble to.
• Figure 8’s
• Dribble for speed

12. CONE ACTION
• If you do not have cones use any items to
create areas to dribble around or dribble to.
• Figure 8’s
• Dribble for speed
• Dribble for better touch presence

13. BALL CONTROL
Settle the Ball Drills to Max Your Skills
• Dribble around an area, flick the ball up, settle
and dribble for speed to another area.

14. BALL CONTROL
Settle the Ball Drills to Max Your Skills
• Dribble around an area, flick the ball up, settle
and dribble for speed to another area.
• Toss the ball up, settle and go.

15. BALL CONTROL
Settle the Ball Drills to Max Your Skills
• Dribble around an area, flick the ball up, settle
and dribble for speed to another area.
• Toss the ball up, settle and go.
• Use your foot only to settle the ball and bring
it to the ground…left and right feet!

16. BE CREATIVE!!
• Your backyard is your natural soccer
playground.
• Practice as much as you can.
• Challenge yourself to beat your max juggling
score.
• Have someone time you with a speed
dribbling course.
• Track the number of times you accurately pass
to that spot on the wall!

17. Elevate the game
on and off the field
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