Soccer warm up drill for coaching heading skills

Headers continually occur in matches and they are a great way to score goals. If you go to the trouble of getting your wingers to cross the ball into the penalty area, then you want an end product from their efforts.

A good way to get your football (soccer) players to take the opportunities that come their way when the ball is crossed is to have them practising these skills before the match.

This is a great warm-up drill to turn your players’ focus to the matter in hand - scoring goals!

warm up soccer drill to get players ready for heading the ball

Set up heading warm up drill

Arrange your soccer (football) players into two teams, around five or six yards either side of a small goal, which is about four yards wide.
Nominate one team to be in goal first.
Serve a ball for the other team to head at goal.
Immediately after heading at goal, each player must react and become the goalkeeper.
Then serve a ball to the opposite team and repeat the process.
The drill is repeated until one of the teams has scored five goals.

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