{"id":105120,"date":"2025-04-06T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=105120"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:36:40","slug":"2-cone-drills-that-will-improve-your-soccer-dribbling-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=105120","title":{"rendered":"2 cone drills that will improve  your soccer dribbling control."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QKz7fDjPnvg?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Purpose:<br \/>\nThe purpose of the drill is to improve balance, speed, and coordination while dribbling a soccer ball<\/p>\n<p>You can vary this drill by:<br \/>\n* Only using your left or right foot<br \/>\n* Using certain parts of the foot (inside, outside, sole, or laces)<br \/>\n* Making the angles of the slalom wider or narrower<br \/>\n* Increase the distance between each of the cones<\/p>\n<p>Coaching points:<br \/>\n* Focus on taking small touches while going through the slalom<br \/>\n* Accelerate once you have turned around a cone and heading towards the next cone<br \/>\n* Take big touches out of your feet as your sprint back to the start line after you finish the slalom<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QKz7fDjPnvg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: The purpose of the drill is to improve balance, speed, and coordination while dribbling a soccer ball You can vary this drill by: * Only using your left or&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6216,"featured_media":105121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}