Soccer: Coaching Tip - How to Defend

Top taps, slide taps, and drop taps...oh my! Here is a fantastic learning exercise that you can use in your class to support both practicing and assessing basic soccer maneuvers, such as pulling back, dribbling, and alternating feet.

This worksheet goes directly along with a PowerPoint presentation called - Soccer Notes. You can find it on our Lesson Planet website. The class can take notes on the worksheet as the teacher shows the PowerPoint and talks about the...

Defense is all about pressure and coverage. How can you get your defensive players to work together? Watch a mock soccer scrimmage while the coach comments on defensive positioning.

Play this video to your beginning soccer players to show them the different types of dribbling. Don't forget to get your players on the field for some practice!

Improve your players' shot with these tips. The presenter points out the soccer player's positioning, making it much easier to recreate on the field.

This video illustrates an attacking tactic that, when used, makes it nearly impossible for defenders to possess the ball. The coach clearly explains the idea while the players demonstrate.

Attack and defend are the focus for this instructional activity, seventh in a series of 10. It basically pulls some of the skills together that have already been taught and allows the players to practice their specific skills in a...

Physical Education Unit Plan: Soccer has nine lessons to follow this one. These lessons focus on skills and social issues related to the sport of soccer. The skills lessons seem to be assume that the learners already have some basic...

By the ninth lesson in this soccer unit, learners have studied this sport from many angles. Here they consider the right to play. Take a look at how much money professional athletes earn. Is there a difference between how much men make...

Lesson eight in this soccer series is all about finishing, or rather, scoring. That’s the goal of the game! Start out by watching some highlights of goals scored by men’s professional soccer players. Exciting! Then get the class...