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205 Academy

  • Education
    • Overview
    • Coaching articles
    • Practice activities
    • Session plans
    • Special topics
      • Activity analysis series
      • Activity design series
      • Shaping the Game
      • Tactical quizzes
      • 7v7 series
      • 9v9 series
    • Open courses
    • Overview of practice plans
    • US Soccer Education
      • Coaching pathway
      • Introduction course
      • Coach’s toolkit
      • Grassroots training manual
  • Library
    • 205 training activities
    • 205 activity articles
    • Session plans
      • Club 2025
      • Club 2024
      • Club 2023
      • Club 2022
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Technical development

Technical development

Dribbling – feints and moves

  • 3 touch drag back
  • Backward scissors
  • Chop move
  • Cruyff turn
  • Double cut
  • Double scissors
  • Double side step
  • Double stepover (stepover + scissors)
  • Fake shot and cut
  • Hook turn
  • Inside cut turn
  • L-turn
  • Maradona move
  • Outside cut turn
  • Pull back (drag back)
  • Ronaldo chop
  • Scissor in place
  • Scissor move
  • Shoulder feint
  • Side step
  • Single cut
  • Stanley Matthews – version 1
  • Stanley Matthews version 2 (double tap, stepover, outside cut)​
  • Step over
  • Step over reverse – outside
  • Stepping over reverse – inside
  • Stop turn
  • Stop/start move
  • The snake (3 variations)
  • V pull back
  • Xavi turn – inside
  • Xavi turn – outside
32 ARTICLES

Sole (bottom of foot) variations

  • 1 cone salsa
  • Box and roll
  • Box step
  • Box then roll
  • Box, roll, and step
  • Crossover push
  • Drag roll with stop​
  • Forward and backward, both feet​
  • Forward and backward, single foot​
  • Forward cross-body roll​
  • Hot steppers
  • Push and pull
  • Sole roll, outside-inside​
  • Sole roll, side-to-side, switch feet​
  • Sole roll, switch feet​
  • Sole rolls – forward-and-backward, bouncing​
  • Sole rolls – side-to-side, bouncing​
  • Square step
  • The salsa
  • The step over walk
  • The waltz
  • Triangle step
  • V dance
  • V inside
  • V outside
  • V then box
26 ARTICLES

Dribbling – carrying the ball

  • Cone weave​
  • Controlled lane dribble​
  • Dribbling inside of the foot​
  • Dribbling outside of the foot​
  • Fast lane dribble​
  • Gated turn​
  • Laces fundamentals, switching feet​
  • Running with speed​
  • Shielding
  • Use of cones as a challenge​
  • Zig zag slalom​
11 ARTICLES

Introductory skills

  • Side-to-side touches (bells, penguins)_
  • Toe touches – stationary, forward, backward​
2 ARTICLES

Wall activities

  • 11-minute wall workout
  • 12 minute wall workout
  • 6 fast-footwork wall drills
  • 9 stage training series
  • Half turns
  • Inside, outside, behind
  • Tight turns
  • Touch and balance
  • Wall turns
9 ARTICLES

Juggling

  • Around the world
  • Half ATW crossover
  • Half ATW heel 360
  • Hop the world
  • Knee catch ATW
  • Neck stall
  • Neck stall heel bounce
  • Reverse thigh catch
  • Reverse toe bounce
  • Size 1 ball juggling
  • Size 5 juggling – inside and outside
  • Tennis ball juggling
  • The stall
  • Thigh catch
  • Toe bounce
  • Toe bounce 360
16 ARTICLES

Soccer Starts At Home

Ball mastery
  • Ankle roll
  • Circles
  • Slide
  • Tic tac slide
  • Tic tac V-shape
  • Tic tacs
  • V-shape
Ball mastery on the move
  • Drag stop opposite foot
  • Dragging the ball
  • Moving inside out
  • Moving tic tac
  • Moving tic tac & V-shape
  • Opposite push stop
  • Slide on the move
  • V-shape Two
  • About Soccer Starts At Home
  • Key development points
17 ARTICLES

Passing and shooting

  • Increasing shot power
1 ARTICLE
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  • Increasing shot power
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  • Size 1 ball juggling
  • Tennis ball juggling
  • Key development points

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