Animated Soccer Drills - Best Coaching Source

There isn't a field out there nowadays that doesn't get its fresh tinge of technological advancement and soccer, or more specifically soccer training, is no different. More and more coaches, especially those working with youngsters, tend to get more in touch with technology and some of their most useful tools (although it's largely underused yet) are animated soccer drills. Let's take a look at how these work and try to decide if they're today's best coaching source or not.

-Advantages of Animated Soccer Drills - Visual Memory

When you simply tell a player to do, say some offensive soccer drills, explaining these drills will trigger his audio memory and rationing, allowing him to replicate what you just told him. This is by no means a wrong way of teaching the offensive soccer drills, but you could definitely do better if you would use animated soccer drills.

With their help, your players will actually see the drill being performed before their eyes, without the need for them to rationalize and adapt that drill to their own image of it. Which leads us to the next advantage of animated soccer drills...?

-Advantages of Animated Soccer Drills - Time Efficiency

Because animated soccer drills use visual memory as a stimulus, whenever you will ask your players to perform a drill they recently saw in the animated program, it will be a lot quicker for them to perform it right and the adaptation period to the drill will be cut to a minimum. This also spares you of several minutes of explanations and corrections.

-Advantages of Animated Soccer Drills - Fun Factor

It's obviously a lot more fun learning your defensive soccer drills with the help of an animated program and this is especially true with kids. Nowadays, computers and computer games stand high in a list of every kid's hobbies, so presenting your drills in an animated program brings a lot of resemblances to their own passions (speaking of which, a lot of these animated soccer drills resemble computer games such as the FIFA or Pro Evolution Series).

Of course, besides these great advantages, you also have several setbacks. For example, if you're trying to show your team the animated soccer drills using a laptop on the pitch, not all of them will be able to see clearly, so they won't understand how the drill needs to be executed.

The best way to work around this is to send each of your players the drills beforehand, so they can watch them at home and get a rough idea on how they need to be done. This little "homework" goes a long way and your team will be very efficient in training, allowing you to get more work done in lesser time.

Niv Orlian is the author and the owner of a Soccer Fans website that provides information on various topics related to soccer.

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