Header
The header in soccer is useful to hit higher balls. It's usually combined with elevation and allows the soccer player to quickly push away high balls. To perform a header you need timing, coordination, balance and jumping skills.
Players can use headers even without jumping: in this case it's called a “bunt”, that is a short pass performed with the head, changing the trajectory fo the ball towards a teammate.
Soccer Heading Drills Requires
- The US Soccer Orginization recommends that only players 11 and older can head without restrictions.
- 10-year-old or younger player may not head the ball regardless of the age group in which the he or she participates.
Browse all the soccer heading drills here
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Athletic Training
Functional strength on different work stations
Explosive strength - Conditional circuit to increase strength through specific functional exercises to be performed on the field -
Soccer Tactics
Thematic game: wide attack on the goal
Creating width and depth - Thematic game to attack the goal wide with cross or lofted passes -
Soccer Tactics
Finishing from cross and 2 vs 2
2 versus 2 - Train finishing from cross with a 2 vs 2 situation -
Soccer Tactics
Collective defensive tactics: Goal defense
Collective defensive tactical principles - Train the defensive phase according to the finishing play: cross, lofted pass, ground pass, throw -
Soccer Technique
Challenge to score with a header being marked one-to-one
Header - Training the header and its individual tactics: training marking, training unmurking -
Athletic Training
Decision Making - Developing the Capacity of Decision under Pressure
Header - Improve cognitive skills and decision-making under pressure, excellent exercise for overall warm up of the whole team -
Soccer Technique
Small-sided game: Headers
Header - Small sided game to train headers -
Soccer Technique
Different Headers: Shoot, Pass And Clear
Header - An exercise to train heading with different commands -
Soccer Tactics
Ball possession - The 4 areas
Ball possession - Ball possession game with 4 different areas for shooting, useful to train various tactical aspects, such as looking for a space, change of game, unmarking and then some technical aspects, such as shooting, lofted ball and headers