Progressive Turning Practice
Turning is an important skill to develop because players often receive the ball with their back to pressure and need to have the ability to control the ball around that pressure and move the ball forward.
As with all soccer skills, they developed over time through a number of training sessions but below is one example of a practice that will lead your players through the learning process.
Decision Making and Turning
By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.
Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on turning and the decision making on how to turn.
Start with a keeper in goal, a server 45 yards out with balls and a target player starts at the top of the D. There are other players waiting to take the place of the target player.
The target player checks away and then
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