How To Teach Trapping Soccer Skill Drills

Trapping is one of the most important elements whenadvance players, you can practice trapping with the
it comes to caching about soccer skill drills. Let me giveinstep or top of the foot and both inside and outside of
you a brief insight into the same.the foot.
The FootYou should teach the players how to eventually
It is very important for the coach to teach players howadvance to using the shin and ankle for higher or wildly
to use the foot to 'capture' balls descending, near or onbouncing balls.
the ground. For this, the players should get in front ofThe Thigh
the ball.The thigh has a larger size and contains higher fatty
They should learn to extend the leg and foot forwardtissue. Therefore, an expert coach knows that thighs
of the body, anticipating the arrival of the ball. Whencould be a very effective method for trapping both
the ball meets the foot, the coach needs to teach theslow and fast airborne passes below the chest. Have
players how to pull the leg back to slow the ball, orthe player get in front of and square to the incoming
'cushion' the ball.ball.
The ball will carom off the foot and out of control ofTeach them to stand on one foot and raise the other
the player if they do not pull back their foot. If you areknee and thigh to meet the ball. Once contacted, the
coaching a team of younger players, it is better toplayers should quickly drop the knee, allowing the ball
start with the inside of the foot.to shortly 'stick' to the thigh. This practice should be
An expert coach knows that this is the largest andcontinued until the ball rolls from the thigh to the feet.
most forgiving area of the foot and it will make theWhen it comes to teaching trapping while coaching
younger players learn the things more comfortably.soccer skill drills, the theory for the chest theory is the
However, if you are coaching a team of moresame as the thigh, but execution is slightly different.