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Coaching children under 5 years of age presents challenges due to their immaturity, short attention span, and less developed muscles. Your objective should be for all of the kids to have fun, make friends, and learn some soccer skills.

These soccer drills for 5 year olds are sure to help your sessions go more smoothly and give your young players the best chance of developing their skills at an appropriate level.

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Warm-up: Combination play

This three-part session for foundation-phase players (age 5-11) starts with a fun warm-up.

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Practice: Combination play

The main practice for this session develops players’ runs off-the-ball and their penalty box play.

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Combination play - small-sided game

Developing further the movement and interchange of passing skills learned earlier.

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Keep hold of the ball

A foundation-phase practice designed to teach staying in possession when under pressure.

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Stealing the ball

Provides opportunities for your players to work on their ability to successfully intercept a pass.

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Run with the ball

Players will enjoy having opportunities to accelerate into space while keeping close ball control.

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Dribbling face to face

This practice encourages attackers to take on opponents with perfect balance, tricks and disguise.

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Dribble in tight areas

Putting the player in possession of the ball under pressure means they will have to find solutions.

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Defend your castle!

Protect balls from team-mates - and try to steal theirs in a game young players will love.

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Make the shape

Here, players develop an awareness of where their team-mates are and have some fun, too.

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Find the colour

In this activity, your players will get lots of touches and work on dribbling into space.

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Bumper Cars

Get those soccer brains ticking over with this great game that covers dribbling, running with the ball, accurate passing, changeovers, ...

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Behind Enemy Lines

Will the package get delivered behind enemy lines? It will by passing through the opposition, getting behind defenders, keeping a good ...

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Dive Bombers

Great fun to be had diving to head the ball in this game

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Head for Home

Some parts of the world have strict rules on heading so please check your local rules.

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Cat and Mouse

How many pieces of cheese can the mice steal? Speed, control, turning, dribbling.

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Star Gates

This fun game focuses on passing, dribbling, timing and angle of forward runs, switching play.

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Space Wars

Win the space war with accuracy and good weight of passing.

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Funny Turns

Got good acting skills? You’ll need them in this fun game that focuses on turning with the ball under close control.

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Robocops

Basic handling, co-ordination, understanding of distances and angles, throwing and catching, calling for the ball.

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King of the Ring

This fun game turns the focus on coaching close control, turning, tackling, defending and decision making.

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Tiger Tails

Lots of coaching points in this fun game – awareness, reactions, change of direction, explosive speed, twisting, turning and screening.

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Airball

Goalkeeping skills are always hard to develop and often boringly repetitive – but not this game! Great fun and good skills coaching.

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Twins

Fun team game – working with others, problem-solving, coordination, and weaker foot accuracy.

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