Back Yard Ball Mastery

How impressive it is to see a soccer player with good ball mastery.
I am always in awe when watching professional players work their ball magic.

On this post, I would like to post a few links  of ball mastery exercises to get your creative juices flowing.

Be sure to watch these 11 year old girls demonstrate ball mastery exercises:
Coerver Ball Mastery
Intermediate Ball Mastery

Try these exercises to work on dribbling:
Dribble like Lionel Messi
Minefield

Spending 10 minutes a day on Minefield may very well be the best soccer training you could do.  You can use anything in the back yard as obstacles, and start with the obstacles a couple of feet apart, then move them tighter as you improve.

This week, we crowned winners to our 3 year-long tests and our first soccer Tennis toournament.

Winners were:
Soccer Tennis:  Denton
Juggling:  Denton
Run-Return: Ryan
Turn-Kick: Joey

Congratulations gentlemen!!

The complete standings for run-return are:
results measured in seconds

 run-return    27-Jun
Ryan    8.34
Joey    8.37
Samuel    8.50
Landon    8.53
Chris    8.56
Rylee    8.71
Ben    8.81
Denton    9.15
Brandon S    9.50
Bryson    9.53
Colby    9.81

Practice has been going well.  This group looks to have excellent focus.
Keep up the good work
Coach Mike