Soccer Drills

Collecting and open sourcing soccer drills (particularly one's I've found useful) for youth soccer coaches everywhere.

See the drills

Usage

Anyone is free to use these drills and practice plans provided they adhere to the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license associated with this repository.

Perhaps at some point an application could be developed (within this repo or elsewhere) to consume these drills.

Contributing

I'd love for other coaches to contribute to this repository of drills.

Therefore, it's necessary to ensure we're using the same format: Markdown with YAML front matter (as a schema). If you're not familiar with either, they're easy to learn and human readable.

Template

Use the _template.md in /drills/ to start you off on the right (or left) foot.

YAML Schema

Property	Meaning	Value Type	Possible Values
title:	Name of drill	string	Any
author:	Author/creator	string	Any
type:	Type of drill	string	Warm-up, Tactical, Technical, Physical, Game
ages:	Age range	string	All, U6, U7, etc., or range like U6-U8
level:	Level of skill	string	All, Initial (U6–U8), Basic (U9-U12), Intermediate (U13 & U14), Advanced (U15–U18), Professional
skills:	Skills taught	list of categories	See skills category list below
setup:	Drill steup	nested object	duration:, cones:, pinnies:, balls:, players:, area:
setup/duration:	Time in minutes	time duration	Any (for example: 5)
setup/cones:	Number of cones	number	Any (for example: 4)
setup/goals:	Number of goals	number	Any (for example: 1)
setup/pinnies:	Pinnies required	string	yes, no, optional
setup/balls:	Number of balls	nested object	min: and max: (numbers)
setup/players:	Number of balls	nested object	min: and max: (numbers)
setup/area:	Area of play required	nested object	min: and max: (strings, e.g. 10 x 10 as measured in yards
desc:	Description of drill	string	Any

Example:

---
title: Passing & Communication Square
author: Name of Author
type: Warm-up
ages: All
level: All
skills:
  - passing
  - communication
  - dribbling
  - ball control
  - receiving
  - turning
  - change of direction
  - identifying space
  - providing support
  - conditioning
  - ice breaker
setup:
  duration: 10
  cones: 8
  pinnies: optional
  balls:
    min: 4
    max: 10
  players:
    min: 8
    max: 20
  area:
    min: 10 x 10
    max: 20 x 20
desc: Simple passing warm-up for all ages that combines passing, communication, dribbling, turning & receiving, and finding open teammates.
---

Skills Categories

The current skills categories used in the YAML schema are as follows:

• awareness
  • attacking
  • change of direction
  • defending
  • identifying space
  • providing support
• ball control
  • dribbling
  • receiving
  • turning
• communication
• conditioning
• finishing
• goalkeeping
  • goalkeeping basics
  • goalkeeping conditioning
  • goalkeeping distribution
  • goalkeeping diving
  • goalkeeping reflexes
  • goalkeeping situational
• ice breaker
• passing
• strength building