Welcome to the Soccer Newsletter. Today's newsletter will describe a neat
drill I saw the other day called the Build-up Drill.
This drill was being run by Liz Woodrow at Marshall University.
Start with a small field approximately 40 X 30 with two full sized goals on each endline.
Have two teams of 5 competing against each other plus a keeper in each goal.
Each game starts with a 1v1 situation (plus keepers). Each player tries to score on
the opposing keeper. Once a player scores, the other team gets to add another player
so that it is now 2v1. Each time a team scores the other team adds on another
player. The first team to score 5 goals wins. It is possible that one player
can end up playing against anywhere from 1 to 5 players. This is a very fast paced
drill (especially for the first players on the field. It would be advisable to play a
number of games and switch
the order that players enter the field (this means that the first player on the field in
the first game would be the 5th player on the next game.
This game works on finishing, conditioning, teamwork, defense and even has a little bit of
fun. Really competitive players will have a great time and really benefit from this
drill.
I have made this an extremely short newsletter but I felt this drill was worth writing
about.
If you have a favorite drill that you would like to share with others, please feel free to
send them to comments@finesoccer.com
and if I
think they would be welcome, I will include them in a future newslettter.
Have a great day.
Lawrence
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