1vs1 Dribbling Soccer Drill | Attacking & Defending Exercises 

Glad you like it! We love it too and how simple it is.

Thanks Charles. We love this one as well, the conditioning and competitiveness it brings in the players.

@@Professionalsoccercoaching love the content, glad I found your channel. Looking forward to more!

@@Professionalsoccercoaching love the drill can you tell me the music title please

Thanks for sharing your feedback. The competitive element of this drill/exercise is definitely a huge plus. And the players want to play it.

Nice variations idea. Thanks for sharing with the group!

@@Professionalsoccercoaching I have my own channel too. You could visit if you want. I have some trainings that could be interesting for you. I hope that you like it 😉👍

Glad you liked it and hope you get some use out of it in your training sessions.

@@Professionalsoccercoaching I'm working on your drills on the pitch I set up in my garage. So far so good! 👍⚽

Totally agree what a great drill. Do you mind sharing me your playlist? Thank you

@@ahmedal-rubie411 You bet. Here's the link to my BEST Soccer Training Drills playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLzr0DbgAILVbIqhAYWCWEa-M1cMyBcKjW

@@GavinTack thanks mate really appreciate it 🙏🏽

Good luck, have fun with it.

Are they mixed or separated? Attacker on a side and defender on a side? Good content

Great! Let us know how it goes for you!

Let us know how it goes. Glad you found the video useful.

Thanks, yes all these drills or exercises I use personally in sessions from youth teams to U-23s. Just need to modify the dimensions, etc.

Super! De nada mi amigo.

Martin, yes that would be a good little progression or variation. Thanks for sharing your ideas with everyone.

You can give it the variants you want, the important thing is to keep the work entertaining while working on the technical fundamentals.

Glad you liked it!

@@Professionalsoccercoaching I have tried it today with my U15 but I changed it a bit. Every time a team scored a point also the defender changed. In this way the game became extremely dynamic and all the players had to stay focused as they knew that they may have to come in any moment and at full speed. It was great fun and we will try it again

@@samueledepizzol9249 Good idea/modification. I will try that as well next time I use it. Would defiantly rotate through bodies quicker that way. Thanks for sharing.

@@samueledepizzol9249 Yes good idea because we want a little chaos for the defense and attack to have to read and react to in real time. Keeping score is 'fundamental' good for you.

Good luck! This one is great with all ages I've found.

Glad you like it!

Great to see you getting some use from this. Love it.

Glad to hear!

Oh yes you sound so super sensetive

Great, seems like coaches are getting creative and doing a ton of modifications/progressions on this also.

Good suggestion, it is quite intense doing 1vs1 and they do need the breaks. Would be interesting to play around with the numbers and grid sizes, etc.

@@Professionalsoccercoaching Agree!

No! Attacking dribbling is the most physically demanding activity in soccer. It requires explosiveness not endurance. Work to rest ratio looks high as you correctly notice but that is exactly what you want when doing explosive speed and agility work like 1v1 dribbling. There are 12 athletes, 2 working so that is 1:6 work to rest ratio which is a little low actually. To do otherwise is to falsify the target and train endurance not explosivenss. I want athletes on the ball dribbling like they're running on hot embers. I want to see maximum explosiveness and changes of direction and feinting. Believe me they will be forced to do this in games against a determined back so they better get used to doing it for 'real'..

@@SH-vi7bp It's also the added pressure of waiting a long time in a game before receiving the ball. You want them to feel the eyes as they would on the weekend of their parents and friends and team mates on the bench as well as the rival opposition in red/blue. 6v6 seems good for my U09's. Greetings from Austria.

Thanks for the feedback. Hope you get some use out of it in your training sessions.

Exactly, can be used as a great warm-up, especially real world where kids are rolling into practice at all times and can jump straight in when they know the exercise/drill.

Thanks for the feedback on this one!

Yes a defender could be marking the receiver in many type of ways. This drill focus is to encourage players to actively taken on and develop 1vs1 attacking skills. I would use different exercises if I wanted to make it about distribution into a receiving player.

everything is custom:)

If the defender wins, the two in the middle just switch roles. The pervious attacker becomes defender and the defender becomes the attacker. Does that help out? Then they just play to the ends like normal.

get what your saying but this could be used just for an opossed ball technique session for confidence, ball skills etc, not used as a possession session as it takes away the focus of building ball skills. what would you add for a progression to this session?

I like the work to rest ratio so the dribblers can be explosive. The spaces are very tight so one progression might be to use a rectangle (30yx15y for example) players can build up some speed dribbling practice to go with the tight 15yd dribbles between the goals in the video. Of course the groups should be teams and score should be kept so defenders are more inclined to try harder to stop the simple passes that are being made behind them. I don't think they were trying hard enough to stop those. I think timing is important as well. Use a stop watch and reward players/teams who can score in 2.5 seconds or less. Over 4 seconds shots don't count or pass ball to teammate. @@levitaylor78

Well thought out response, thanks for the input, great points.

These types of soccer drills will help with your drilling skills, yes.

It restarts from the nearest gate the ball went out of with the waiting player at that gate dribbling into the grid.

Yes, you could modify the numbers for sure. Let me know how it works for you.

sure, let me know what you need.

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@@woodweartv7275 Great! More coaches the better!!

Thanks for the feedback. The 1vs1 reps (bouts) in the grid are actually quite intense and the duration is varied. In some ways it replicates the intensities of a real game. High intensity and interspersed with break periods. But I can see that this could be the case if the lines lengths are not monitored.

@@Professionalsoccercoaching Tried it this week with 7yr olds.... It was reasonably good, and I tried a 2 v 2 version to try to negate having kids standing waiting in line for too long. For my age group, I'd really like to find less 'wait in line' drills and more, fuller involvement of all. I don't think 6 and 7yr olds need recovery times as such - they'd get far more out continual involvement, encouragement (fun) and 'drills' where they can express themselves.

@@raymondconley-smith1221 Yeah, per the instructions, this is for 12yrs old and up. We don't do this exercise below that age group for the reasons you mentioned.

True. I use this exercise in small groups from 1-6 players

I thought so when I first experimented with it. But the work to rest ratio is roughly accurate to a full size game . The bouts in the grid are maximal (100%) and the rest periods vary, but are approx. 1:6. This can be adjusted by reducing the player counts. Maybe it doesn't national training 'guidelines', but the players love it and want to do it all the time, so something to be said for that.

use less people then. Have your assistants set up and monitor others areas

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Yes, the videos are done with normal level youth players from rec to academy, so they do make mistakes and I don't cut those out in editing to make it more realistic.

Fast pace allows players to be actuve

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