U8 Soccer Training Headquarters

Do you have a U8 Soccer team or are you the parent of a U8 Soccer player?  If so please read this section.

Here you'll find a list of articles and drills for training u8 soccer players. U8 soccer players are still young. Like all very young soccer players your focus should be on long term development. This means the long term development should be taken from a physical and skills standpoint.

Read the articles below and apply the skills necessary to develop. As one author once wrote it takes 10,000 hours to really excel at something.  You might as well as get started early with your practice.

U8 Soccer Drills, Articles and Videos
  

Use these U-8 Training Games for your young players to develop skills.  On the left is the game.  On the right is the skill to be worked.  These drills are from the AYSO. Click on the link to open the drill and inside it will tell you the purpose and description of that drill.

 

Name of Game  
You and Me  
You and Me (1v1)(two)  
Find the Number  
Moving Marbles  
Musical Balls  
Slalom Shooting  
Take-Overs  
The Race  
The Shadow  
The Web  
Mad House  
Shooting Skunks  
My Buddy  
Shooting Gallery  
Shoot for the Shoes  

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