Coaching Soccer Drills: Winning Tactics For Shooting
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
You may know this already that in coaching soccer drills, every other skill leads to one final aim, a shot at the goal. It takes skill as well as gut feeling to produce quality shooting. But other than this, winning attitude is also equally important.
It is the responsibility of every player but more importantly that of the forward players to shoot the ball. While teaching soccer, put shooting on the top of your priority list.
There are so many things that may result from a shoot. Shots can be directed towards a goal. The goalkeeper might drop the ball exactly at the feet of your forward player. Wild shots can turn into great passes. Ground shots may return. You may even hit a goal through a straight shot.
When conducting soccer practice, the attacking players try to convert every goal scoring opportunity into a goal. They are accustomed to think only about scoring a goal when in the field. These attacking players are known as sniffers in England. This is because they are always sniffing out scoring chances.
They take every chance for a shot as if it is the last chance that they’ll ever get. They are always present when the opportunity is right. Amazingly, they have the ability to be in the wrong place at the right time. Therefore, in coaching soccer drills you must ask the players to hit the ball at every opportunity.
As a general rule, any kick that causes the ball to go towards the goal is considered as a shot. One of the most effective techniques of driving the ball is through its middle with the help of laces of the foot. While performing this, head of the player should be over the ball, his upper body be steady, and his toes should be extended.
In coaching drills, your players should learn to shoot the ball low and wide of the goalie. Herein, low ground shots take priority over high shots. The reason is that low shots are especially difficult for the goalies to stop as they have to move their hands a greater distance than for high shots.
When kids practice inside the regulation sized goals, they are likely to score more by striking the ball above the goalie’s head. You must discourage your players to do this as it instills the habit of shooting high goals. In coaching soccer drills, don’t allow the kids to play in adult sized goals to stop this practice.
So go ahead and make your players expert in shooting the ball to score goals by confirming the position of the goalkeeper once before shooting.
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