Soccer Drills - How To Improve Soccer Passing Skills

                

 

Passing and receiving a soccer ball is more than just kicking it back and forth. These are soccer skills that involve communication, organization, and vision. What follows are some simple, yet effective soccer drills you can use to have your team practice the skills of passing and receiving.

These passing soccer drills effectively works on passing technique and combines this with training on receiving, fitness, and movement:

- Create a rectangle 4 yards by 10 yards with a pylon at each corner.

- Have one player stand behind each pylon.

- The drill begins when player 1 passes to player 2 and then player 1 switches places with player 4. Player 2 passes to player 4 and then switches places with player 3.

- They then repeat this drill on the other side.

- Then passing takes place between players 3 and 4.

If it sounds a little confusing you can see the diagram here: http://soccerdrillstips.com/passingsoccerdrills.html

One great variation is to have two balls going at once so that while player 1 is passing to player 2, player 4 is passing to player 3, then they switch and pass the ball back and switch again.

Use your imagination and come up with other ways to vary this game and your own soccer drills.

Andre Botelho is a recognized authority on the subject of soccer drills and coaching. His web site, http://www.soccerdrillstips.com provides a wealth of informative articles and resources on how to improve soccer skills and make training more fun and interesting