{"id":1068,"date":"2011-04-15T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2011-04-15T15:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:54:20","slug":"some-u16-soccer-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/some-u16-soccer-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"Some U16 soccer drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some drills I&#8217;m going to try tonight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leading passes to the goal.  Form two lines at midfield, one line in the center circle that starts with the ball.  Center gives a leading pass to wing, wing gives a one-touch return, center performs a one-touch shot.  Simple, but really helps with the timing on those critical passes!<\/li>\n<li>1v1 2v2 3v3 with one helper.  Small field with small cone goals.  Have to dribble into goal.  Start with 1v1 with one helper that will return the pass to the passing team.  Upgrade to 2v2 etc once control is established.<\/li>\n<li>Run the gauntlet.  Form two lines of players at equal intervals.  Another player starts at one end, between the lines, and must pass and return to each player on each side.  Once to the end, the player joins one of the rows, and the first person in the row runs the gauntlet next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it goes.  :><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some drills I&#8217;m going to try tonight: Leading passes to the goal. Form two lines at midfield, one line in the center circle that starts with the ball. Center gives a leading pass to wing, wing gives a one-touch return, center performs a one-touch shot. Simple, but really helps with the timing on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/some-u16-soccer-drills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some U16 soccer drills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-soccer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-he","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":306,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/soccer-drills\/","url_meta":{"origin":1068,"position":0},"title":"Soccer Drills","author":"m","date":"August 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to try to keep a list of soccer drills that have worked well for the girls' teams. I was the only coach in town for both Reiley and Wren's teams this week, so I had to bone up! I have crummy old websites for Reiley's Sirens team and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":390,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/soccer-drills-that-worked\/","url_meta":{"origin":1068,"position":1},"title":"Soccer drills that worked","author":"m","date":"April 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We had fun at Reiley's soccer practice tonight, here are the drills we used: shots on goal from outside goal box hard pass to one-touch shots on goal all-offense corner kicks leading-pass through cones relay race 4v4 half-field scrimmage, dribble thru cones to score It's great fun to watch the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/soccer-mini-tournament\/","url_meta":{"origin":1068,"position":2},"title":"Soccer Mini Tournament","author":"m","date":"September 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a super-fun drill we tried out yesterday, described via a set of funny emails with my bro Dan... > Mike, > > You pocket dialed me today. That's why I called you back. > > You were playing something with the girls yelling out numbers and colors > (3,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All My Rowdy Friends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":168,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/soccer-girls-wrap-up-daddy-starts-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":1068,"position":3},"title":"Soccer: Girls wrap up, Daddy starts up","author":"m","date":"April 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The girls had great games yesterday, even if they were losses.\u00c2\u00a0 Wren's team played the best half they've ever played, full of energy, working together (there were even good passes!), getting a 4 to 1 lead, before they ran out of steam (with only one sub) and the lead slipped\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":82,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/tonguetwister\/","url_meta":{"origin":1068,"position":4},"title":"Second Season of Soccer Starts","author":"m","date":"July 12, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Reiley started her second season of soccer today, and Wrenny will be playing this year as well! Rei scored a goal at her first practice scrimmage game. Mia Hamm watch yer butt! Whooooop! There was an ultimate tourney happening at the same time, every other player brought their hound dog,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":861,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/wrennys-team-wins-their-soccer-tourney\/","url_meta":{"origin":1068,"position":5},"title":"Wrenny&#8217;s team wins their soccer tourney!","author":"m","date":"May 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What a fun day, two games on Saturday, taking the team to the winner's circle!\u00a0 Gary, Randy and I have coached these girls for years, and watched them come together as a team.\u00a0 I'm like a broken record, but I'd rather see the girls play as a team, with great\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}