Soccer Receiving and Turning Drills
The first touch in soccer is often the most crucial touch when receiving a ball. How you receive a ball will often determine your faith and will most definitely dictate the direction of your attack.
Assure players receive the ball with the proper surface of the foot or body to put the ball in the most suitable space. A touch played in the wrong direction often denies a forward attacking pass and will put the receiving player in a lousy situation.
When teaching receiving, make a note of positive or negative touch. A positive touch allows the player to keep possession while advancing the ball to the attacking team's goal, where a negative touch will not allow the player to advance and often requires a pass towards the player's own goal.
Purpose of Soccer Receiving and Turning Drills
- Allows a team to stay in posession of the ball.
- The first-touch puts players in attacking opportunity.
- Allows players to maintain posession.
- Allows players advancing towards your attacking goal.
Soccer Receiving and Turning Drills Requires
- Players to be confortable with the ball.
- Players must be able to control both flighted and ground balls.
- Soccer players must be able to command the ball and receive the ball into the required open space.
Browse the Latest Soccer Receiving and Turning Drills
Hot-Box Passing and Receiving Drill
The hot-box passing and receiving soccer drill focuses on small group and individual passing and receiving skills.
Inside of the Foot Passing Warm-up
This passing warm-up drill will focus on accuracy when passing with the inside of the foot.
6 vs 4 Team Training Numbers
This 6 vs 4 team training drill focuses on team movement, communication, and passing. This is a great session to end on after an intense passing practice.
7v7 Scrimmage
A 7v7 scrimmage is a great way to end most of your training sessions. The 7 vs 7 allows players to focus on team tactics in realistic training situations and respond to problems presented in the full-sided game.
Shooting Agility Drill
Center Mid Passing Combination 1
Center Mid Passing Combination 2
Triangle Combination Passing Drill
This passing drill focuses on combination play in a small area. You can concentrate on the pace of the pass, angle of the pass, the weight of the pass, timing of the runs before and after the pass, one-two’s, and movement.
Line Passing Overlap Warm-up
Three Person Passing Combination