Why is dribbling one of the most basic soccer skills but probably the most important skill a soccer player should be practicing? Firstly, if you are coaching youth soccer you need to understand why a player needs to learn such a skill.  Let me explain further….

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The age group between U6 to U9 is sometimes referred to as the ‘Fun stage’. In a lot of cases the kids have been encouraged to play the game by their parents or their friends at school are playing soccer so they want to play with them. It is an age where they are to young both mentally and physically to cope with the more tactical and technical elements of the game. It is however an age where they can still be exposed to the basic soccer training skills and have fun while doing it.

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There must be thousands of soccer coaching drills in existence, however a large percentage of the soccer drills used by coaches tend to be purely technical repetition.  What is one of the most important skills a large percentage of youth soccer coaches fail to practice in a soccer training drill?

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