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| I coach a great little U-12 girls soccer team, We have the least amount of goals allowed in the league , but we are struggling with finishing. We are getting a boat load of shots on goal, but it looks like someone shrink wrapped the goal. lol I am open to any and all suggestions. Thanks RD
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| A nice simple little routine is to get a full size goal (or whatever size goal your team use) and place two training poles on the line about a yard from each goalpost so you make three channels to shoot into. A large middle target for driving or harder shots and two outside targets for placing or passing the ball into the goal. Using training poles instead of cones allows for higher shots instead of just low driven shots. Have a server from the side, one from behind the shooter and one on the goal line to the side of the goal then either have first time shots or allow a touch first, with the different severs putting the ball to the shooter from different angles, strart with the shooter in the centre of the goal but then put them on angles to the goal and from different distances from the goal, after 20 minutes or so of practice remove the poles and replace with a goalkeeper and see how accurate their shooting is. If you do this routine everyweek for about half an hour each time then it will improve not only their shooting ability but their overall understanding of where to put a ball to increase the chances of scoring instead of just shooting and hoping for the best. This routine can then be moved on so you add a defender, first without a goalkeeper just using the target in the goal then with a goalkeeper increasing the realism of the practice.
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| Added to what Swift has said (and that's excellent advice) is also to get your kids to shoot across the goalie from an angled approach. I've been working with my U8s who seem to have this knack for driving beautiful hard driven shots stright at the keeper! We're getting better though. I've also done things where I've placed a water bottle or even a traffic cone in the corner of a goal and had them try to hit that. The other thing I've just started with my team is side-footing/passing the ball with pace into the goal when it's come into the box from the side and they're in or around the 6 yd. box. Too often they want to belt it in and some fall over and miss entirely or they shank it wide or sky it high. This is 7-a-side w/ smaller goals too. As a former striker - I like all these drills. I give all the defending coaching duties to someone else!
Gav Coach - U8 Boys (Toronto, Canada)
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Gav (15/05/2009)
Added to what Swift hassaid (and that's excellent advice) is also to get your kids to shoot across the goalie from an angled approach. I've been working with my U8s who seem to have this knack for driving beautiful hard driven shots straight at the keeper! We're getting better though.
I've also done things where I've placed a water bottle or even a traffic cone in the corner of a goal and had them try to hit that.
The other thing I've just started with my team is side-footing/passing the ball with pace into the goal when it's come into the box from the side and they're in or around the 6 yd. box. Too often they want to belt it in and some fall over and miss entirely or they shank it wide or sky it high. This is 7-a-side w/ smaller goals too.
As a former striker - I like all these drills. I give all the defending coaching duties to someone else!
I think this advice is "key". The MAIN problem that most kids have is that they want to drive the ball so hard that it will blow the net out. I have shown my kids a few EPL game goals and ask them to tell me how the scorers made these goals. I especially get them to watch the pros take penalty kicks. How many of them drive the ball rather than just pass for the corner? Almost none. Other than headers, they notice that most goals are scored by simple placing the ball with a pass into the goal. I try to get across that a 30yd cracker and a 1ft. toe poke produce EXACTLY the same result.
Once they understand that they can just relax and simply pass the ball into the goal, they become a LOT more accurate.
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