Football is the world's most popular sport and is known as soccer in some countries. Dribbling is an important skill for all football players. Football dribbling allows you to beat an opposing defender off the dribble and penetrate the defensive line so that you can carry the ball up the field or make space to perform a successful pass or shot.
Fundamentals
Practice football dribbling with every football player having his own ball. Soccer players should dribble unopposed in a 30-yard box, with a coach teaching fundamental skills and emphasizing the need to look around and avoid collisions while keeping the ball under control.
Defensive Pressure
Shark in the water is a football dribbling drill you can use to teach dribbling against defensive pressure. This involves the defender trying to tackle balls away and kick them out of the square. When a soccer player loses possession he becomes a defender. The last football player left dribbling is declared the winner.
Directional Dribbling
Crossing the ocean is a football dribbling drill that adds the element of dribbling for penetration, having to beat a defender off the dribble and getting on behind. Play in a 30-yard box and have ten football players on one side of the box. Place a defensive player in the middle of the box without a ball. On the coach's command the football players dribble across the box and stop the ball on the other side. If the defensive player tackles any player and puts their ball out of play, they lose their ball for good and become a defensive player themselves. This drill continues until one player is standing. The last player dribbling is declared the winner.
Beating Pressure and Cover
The gauntlet football dribbling drill develops a football player's ability to beat a defender while introducing the concept of a cover defender after the initial defensive player is beaten. Three 10-yard boxes are set up adjoining each other in a straight line, with a defender in each box. The dribbling football player begins on the end line of the first box. He must beat the defender and enter the second box, where the second defender awaits. The dribbling football player is successful if she can dribble by all three defenders and stop the ball on the end line of the third box.
Game Situation
Emphasize dribbling in a game environment by playing a scrimmage where the field is divided into thirds. Mark clear lines on each third with cones. Teams are only allowed to advance forward one third by dribbling the ball. They can pass sideways and back as many times as they want, but making them dribble to advance creates a need for players to dribble in a game situation.
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