Shooting
Shooting is a core skill for any player and we show you some of the best ways to coach it. We look at shooting from dead ball situations, shooting while running, shooting first time, drive shots and how to make the ball bend, curl and dip. We show you some great exercises and games to help you coach shooting to all your players.
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How to score more goals
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To enhance your team's chances of hitting the back of the net, get them to have more shots and be more accurate.
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How to Coach the Perfect Free-Kick
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There is nothing more satisfying than bending the ball from free-kicks over the wall into the back of the net. Get yourself down to the practice field so that at the next training session you can show your free-kick takers how it's done. Watch their faces as you curl it into the top corner!
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Crossing and Finishing. Play to Your Strengths
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When you are preparing for matches make sure you practice crossing and finishing during training so that the crossers of the ball are playing to your strengths not your weaknesses.
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What To Do With Three Players
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Strikers and goalkeepers work well together in threes. Quick shooting keeps your goalkeeper on his toes and tunes your strikers into the best place to put their shots to beat the opposition keeper, says David Clarke.
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The secret to scoring more goals
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The game’s all about scoring goals, so if you encourage your players to take more shots and aim the ball at the areas goalkeepers find trickiest to reach, the chances of success will improve. Here are my secrets to scoring more goals.
One of the best ways of getting your team to take more shots – and therefore score more often – is to adjust their ATTITUDE to shot taking…
Many young players won’t shoot when in a goalscoring position. Why? There are two reasons:
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Choose exercises that are fun and challenging
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One of the ways I find to make coaching more fun for my players are the kind of exercises I choose.
If you use ones that are more than just standing in a row running through a few cones to the other end your players will not only have more fun, but their learning experience will be enchanced.
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How to score in 1v1s against the keeper
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He should have scored!
When a player is through on goal with only the keeper to beat, it can be nerve-racking because they are expected to score. However, there are two ways you can help a player handle that expectation:
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Putting 1v1 shooting to the test
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To improve your attacker's chances of scoring in 1v1s you need to put the theory in the article (How to Score in 1 v 1 Against the Keeper) to the test.