{"id":111221,"date":"2025-05-08T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=111221"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:03:42","slug":"warm-up-with-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=111221","title":{"rendered":"Warm Up with the Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_fXFXposRY?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Exercise Objectives:<br \/>\nThis is a great alternative to warm up your players using a ball. A variety of dribbling maneuvers, feints and change of direction is involved in this warm up. Jogging and dynamic stretching can easily be incorporated with a little imagination. <\/p>\n<p>Coaching Pointers:<br \/>\nPlayers are divided into pairs. Pairs in turn, perform the following exercises; ( it is vital to leave the ball &#8220;dead&#8221; at the cone for the next pair).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Players run to first cone, collect a ball, dribble ball to opposite cone, repeat at the next cone as they work their way down the series of cones. Players sprint back inside of cones.<br \/>\n\u2022 Players run to first cone, collect a ball, perform a scissors move, repeat at the next cone as they work their way down the series of cones. Players sprint back inside of cones.<br \/>\n\u2022 Players run to first cone, collect a ball, perform a &#8220;spin out&#8221; move or &#8220;Maradona spin&#8221; move, repeat at the next cone as they work their way down the series of cones. Players sprint back inside of cones.<br \/>\n\u2022 Players run to first cone, collect a ball, perform a half turn, repeat at the next cone as they work their way down the series of cones. Players sprint back inside of cones.<br \/>\n\u2022 Players run to first cone, collect a ball, dribble the ball around the opposite cone and back, repeat at the next cone as they work their way down the series of cones. Players sprint back inside of cones.<\/p>\n<p>Go to SoccerClinics.com The World\u2019s Largest Coaching Website!<br \/>\nCopyright Ready2Coach.com<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R_fXFXposRY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Objectives: This is a great alternative to warm up your players using a ball. A variety of dribbling maneuvers, feints and change of direction is involved in this warm&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":111222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111221","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\/111221","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}