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Article Title: Soccer Practice Games:3 Big Reasons To Shoot Properly Article Description: What if I told you that young players enjoy the soccer practice games the most when they are scoring goals. Yes, you must make it a point to include large number of opportunities for them to practice scoring. There are numerous options that can be exercised to create opportunities of them. For example: small-sided games, full-field scrimmages, and shooting drills. Additional Article Info: Word Count: 534 (not including resource box) Category: Soccer Written By: Andre Botelho Contact Email: [email protected] <----- Article Begins Here -----> Soccer Practice Games:3 Big Reasons To Shoot Properly © Copyright 2009 Expert Secret, Lda (SoccerDrillsTips.com) In soccer practice games, scoring goals is one thing that adds to the excitement of the young players while playing. For this reason, you must look for opportunities to score goals and integrate for them. If you try, youll find countless ways that can be used to create such opportunities for them. For instance: shooting drills, small sided games, and full-field scrimmages. During small sided games and full field scrimmages, youre required to keep changing the promotional ways to score additional goals. Add in such games that dont need a goalie to play or limit the goalies movement within the predefined lines. There is another way of increasing the possibility of goal scoring by broadening the goalpost being used or else by adding up more goals. In soccer training, when players develop their shooting technique and tactical knowledge, goal creation also increases. What you can do is bring in shooting techniques quite early in the kids developing stage but stress them more during the later stages, just as in passing skills. Carrying out soccer drills is one of the means to equip the players with requisite shooting skills. Players become skilled at shooting the ball accurately and score many more goals by way of these shooting drills. So it becomes your duty as a coach to help your players grow as experts in shooting techniques. Teach the kids various methods of striking the ball right when performing the soccer exercises. Players can use the inside of their foot to take shots from a close range. When they use the inside of the feet, it increases the shooting accuracy. When the situation is such that more strength is needed to hit the ball, ask the players to strike the ball using the instep of the foot, with toes pointed downwards and ankle locked. Positioning of the non kicking foot has an effect on the height of the shot. Hence, tell the players to keep their non kicking foot further to the ball so that the shot is low. Make sure you eliminate all distractions for example moving balls, moving shooters, or defenders to focus your player's mind on striking the ball. Begin the drill progression in soccer practice games by using a stationary ball and a shooter. As the shooting techniques progress, increase the challenge by putting the shooter in action before he/she hits the ball. Such a shift will distract from the accuracy of the striking efforts at first, because the player's visualization must serve a double purpose. On one hand, it allows the player kicking the ball to find some space in the direction of the ball and on the other, helps them put their foot right where the ball is. As players grow in confidence, increase the difficulty by putting both the shooter and the ball in a moving state. When they improve their shooting, throw the balls towards them at irregular speeds. Here it is! Develop more opportunities for the players to score goals in soccer practice games and make the most of practice sessions. To know more about youth soccer and enhance your coaching skills, enroll for our youth soccer coaching community. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Andre Botelho is a recognized authority in youth soccer coaching. Learn how to explode your players' skills and make training more fun in record time. Download your free youth soccer coaching guide at http://www.soccerdrillstips.com <----- Article Ends Here -----> ------------------------------------ This group is no longer maintained. It only exists for the archives. Please submit your articles at http://www.pickbrains.com/submit-article instead. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
