{"id":161024,"date":"2026-03-04T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=161024"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:28:30","slug":"why-passing-patterns-are-ruining-youth-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=161024","title":{"rendered":"Why Passing Patterns Are Ruining Youth Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ihr1p3VWAA?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Passing patterns are everywhere in youth soccer. If you want an alternate to rondos but better than passing patterns for your youth soccer team, look no further.<\/p>\n<p>They look clean.<br \/>\nThey look organized.<br \/>\nThey look \u201cprofessional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But they don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I explain why passing patterns take players out of the context of the game, kill decision-making, and leave players bored \u2014 then I show three game-like activities that develop passing, movement, and awareness without scripting the game.<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn\u2019t look like soccer, it probably shouldn\u2019t be in your session.<\/p>\n<p>Activities shown in this video (with full Kinoli animations):<br \/>\nThe Diamond Game<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/kinoli.com\/a\/oRw4ouVwBQQa<\/p>\n<p>Transitional Rondo<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/kinoli.com\/a\/AnVCZ6BneIVx<\/p>\n<p>Keep Away with Consequences<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/kinoli.com\/a\/xsIDDAgim5Nr<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: players come to training to play soccer \u2014 so let them play soccer.<\/p>\n<p>If you try any of these activities this week, comment below and let me know how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 Don\u2019t forget to subscribe for more coaching tips, sessions, and drills for grassroots soccer.<\/p>\n<p>#soccercoaching #youthsoccer #soccerdrills #soccertraining #grassrootsfootball #soccercoach<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ihr1p3VWAA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing patterns are everywhere in youth soccer. If you want an alternate to rondos but better than passing patterns for your youth soccer team, look no further. They look clean&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10799,"featured_media":161025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161024","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\/161024","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\/10799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}