Soccer Passing Headquarters

Anyone dealing with youth soccer players needs to understand the critical importance of the fundamentals of the game.

One of those critical fundamentals is passing. Having this skill links the team together the field. Poor passing skills lead to turnovers. Lack of passing leads to isolation and one on one play. Passing is not only a skill but a mentality. The ball hog or black hole never quite fits into the overall team scheme. One black hole could lead to another. Look at it this way when the ball goes into the black hole it does not come out. The player obviously being the black hole. So if player X knows that when the ball goes to Y he/she wont get it back, they might be less apt to deliver the ball to player Y. Coaches must teach the mentality of sharing the ball. And this next point is important. Even if, and especially if you have a young superstar player, teach them to be a team player. It will help their long term career.

The next aspect that makes soccer passing work is off the ball movement. Players who don't have the ball "MUST MUST MUST" be taught to move off the ball to create angles and open spaces for passes to occur.

So you see passing is more than a skill that happens at the feet, chest, or head only. It is a mentality and requires people with the ball and without to work in tandem.

Read the articles below to learn about this skill.

Soccer Passing Articles