Soccer Shooting Drill

World Cup

Pairs are countries. The coach serves a ball and every pair plays against all the others to score. A busy shooting game kids love.

Each pair is a country. Watch pair A. The coach serves from the cone and a keeper is in goal.

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Set up

Put a keeper in the goal. Make pairs and let each pair pick a country.
Give each pair its own pinnie color if you can.
The coach stands at a cone about 20 yards from goal with a pile of balls. The pairs wait beside the coach.

Space: Penalty area plus 10 yards in front of it
You need: 1 goal · Lots of balls · Pinnies in different colors · 1 cone for the coach

The coach serves a ball toward the box. Every pair plays against all the others.
Win the ball, work with your partner and score on the keeper. If the ball goes out, the coach serves a new one right away.
Classic rules: a pair that scores goes through to the next round and waits beside the coach. The last pair without a goal is out.
Play round after round until one country wins the World Cup. Pairs that are out can play keeper or fetch balls.
To keep everyone playing, give a point for each goal instead and play several short rounds of about 2 minutes.
Swap the keeper often so everyone gets to shoot.

Play with only two or three pairs and serve the ball gently into the middle of the box.

A goal counts only after a pass between partners, or players get just two touches before they shoot.

With a free account, put World Cup in a practice plan with its minutes and water breaks. At the field the clock moves on to the next drill by itself.