First Touch Soccer 2018 Download
Charlyn Scifres
Juggling, in general, is one of the most fundamental ways to work on your first touch. It helps your balance, coordination, foot/leg form, as well as your control of how you connect with the ball and how hard you hit it. If you could only practice one drill to have a good first touch, it would be juggling! Challenge your touch to receive the ball out of the air and keep it close. Start by throwing the ball in the air or kicking it up around head height. As you get more comfortable, you can increase the height.
Volleying the ball with the inside and laces of the feet is a great way to improve and refine your first touch. Many times in a game, the ball will not arrive to you smoothly on the ground. Being able to comfortably play a bouncing ball in the direction you want it to go is a key skill to master.
Being able to use your first touch to turn is an important skill for elite players. Rather than stopping the ball and THEN turning, you can receive and turn all in one motion to be most efficient. This can be the difference between setting your team up for a counter attack and potential goal or not. Similar, a directional first touch is one of the six moves every soccer player should master.
Practicing receiving the ball in different ways encourages you to keep your feet active and be agile as the ball arrives. This is crucial for a good first touch. Also, by specifying exactly how you should pass the ball back against the wall with your second touch (in this case, using the laces of the opposite foot), you can increase the pressure on yourself to be consistent with your first touch.
First Touch Soccer Camp was developed in 2008. It was designed for boys and girls to elevate the player's technical ability as well as their passion for the game. Our goal is to provide the players with countless touches on the ball and to improve ability in the areas of passing, receiving, distributing, dribbling and shooting. Campers will work on their technical ability and game awareness throughout the week of current drills and games. Campers will work through a circuit of drills and small sided games, in the morning and scrimmages in the afternoon. We have also adopted the US Youth Soccer changes and will implement them during camp.