Soccer Footwork Skills and Training Drills
The West Des Moines Soccer Club is pleased to provided this section to help recreational coaches more effectively teach the basic soccer skills to their players. This section contains 84 different soccer drills that have been used by some of the club's more successful recreational and professional coaches. Through the drills attached to this site we hope that all coaches will have the tools necessary to make their volunteer coaching experience enjoyable for them and valuable for their players.
The skills players use to play soccer can be divided up a number of ways. For our purposes we have created fourteen different categories ranging from the basic building blocks of dribbling, passing and shooting, to the more advanced concepts of how to settle a ball out of the air to a player's feet.
Click on each of the following links for a description of the soccer skill and a list of the drills intended to teach this skill:
