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My answer is always the same: Spend as much time as it takes for your players to properly grasp the essential soccer skills and demonstrate the fact. Learning to trap, dribble, and pass are the basis for all play. You make your players skillful doing all three by giving them lots of touches on the ball at practice. Be it skills drills or game drills, the more chances to control and carry the ball your players get, the more comfortable they will become in the long run and the better soccer players they will become. With that said, players become bored if you spend too much practice time doing less less active and eventful skills drills. In my opinion, one or two skills drill per practice is plenty, and I would prefer to spend 65-75% of my practice time in small-sided games, and other scrimmage-like elements. The idea is to make sure your players show during the scrimmage games what you have taught them in the skill drills. For example, dribbling the ball properly means keeping the ball …

Soccer Practice Games Make each practice more challenging, productive, and fun with 125 games! Divided into six sections, Soccer Practice Games presents games on the following aspects:

Warm-up and conditioning
Passing and receiving
Dribbling, shielding, and tackling
Heading and shooting
Tactical training
Goalkeeper training

Each game maximizes player involvement, activity, and learning and contains at least one major objective related to player or team development. A detailed explanation and accompanying illustrations are provided for each game to make application easy. Games can be easily adapted to accommodate players of various ages and abilities.

Designed for beginning youth through high school competitive levels, Soccer Practice Games is a big winner among coaches and those who teach soccer. Whether working with whole teams, small groups, or players one-on-one, it is a fun and effective way to instruct and learn the game.
Customer Review: Soccer Practice Games
Good book, easy games with comprensive images, is a good book to start to teach how introduce the principles of soccer.Is a book you must be have in your library.
Customer Review: Decent Resource for Youth Soccer Coaches
These game-style drills make soccer practices much more fun, and they help teach fundamentals at the same time. This book doesn’t really get into strategies or position playing, but it is a good collection of drills that will keep all of your players busy and learning.