Bounce soccer warm up drill

This is a great soccer (football) warm-up drill to get your players competing for the ball in 1v1 situations. All you need are four balls and four cones.

Soccer (football) warm up drill with 1v1s

How to coach bounce football warm up drill

Set up a line of numbered cones with balls on top of them for the warm up.
Put the players in pairs. Each pair in turn has to bounce around in random directions.
Call out a number. The players must react, sprint and try to be the first to knock the ball off the numbered cone.
The players can use their bodies and arms to hold each other off, but must not commit a foul.

Key soccer coaching tip for your football warm up

Match players on both ability and size. There is no point having the fastest player versus the slowest, or the strongest versus the weakest.

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