Don’t worry, your soccer kids don’t need to lose their touch during the lockdown. All you need is a ball and 2 x 2 metres of space. 

THE 10-2-1 CHALLENGE

10 Skills. 2 Metres. 1 Minute.

The skills:

1. Fast Feet
• Put your legs shoulder width apart and place the ball between your feet.
• Bend your knees slightly.
• Using your instep, knock the ball back and forth between your feet. 
• Keep doing it, fast as you can, for 1 minute.
  
  
2. Triangles
• Put the ball down just in front of you.
•  Drag the ball back with the sole of your right foot at an outward angle.
• With your right foot instep, pass the ball across to your left foot.
• Pass the ball forward with your left foot back to the starting point, stop it with your right.    
• Repeat the triangle, fast as you can for 1 minute.
  
  
3. Drag-Push
• Put the ball down just in front of you.
• Drag the ball back using the sole of your right foot.
• Push it forward using the laces at the top of your right boot.
• Stop the ball with the sole of your left boot. 
•  Keeping dragging and pushing with alternate feet, fast as you can for 1 minute.
  
  
4. Inside-Outside
• Put the ball down just in front of you.
• Play the ball from one side of the box to the other, using your right foot outstep.
• At the other side, control the ball and pass back to your left foot using your instep.
• Repeat fast as you can for 1 minute.
  
  
5. Fast Feet (Step Over)
• Begin with a ‘fast-feet’ side to side pass between your left and right foot insteps.
• On the pass back, before the ball hits the instep, step that foot over the ball in a circular motion.
• After the step over, use the instep of that foot to return the ball back to the other foot.
• Find your rhythm and repeat, fast as you can for 1 minute.
  
  
6. Double Taps
• This exercise is essentially fast-feet + toe taps.
• Perform a fast-feet pass between both insteps.
• Then before the next fast-feet pass, tap both toes on top of the ball, one after the other.
• Find your rhythm and repeat, fast as you can for 1 minute.
  TIP: It may help find your rhythm to say to yourself “side to side, toe to toe” as you do it.
  
  
7. Body Triangles
• Put the ball down just in front of you.
• Drag the ball back with one foot, right behind and around your other standing leg.
• Switch to use the standing leg to stop the ball and push it back to the start position.
• Repeat fast as you can for 1 minute.
  
  
8. Squeeze & Push
• This is like fast-feet, but always keeping your feet in contact with the ball.
• Starting with the ball between your legs, tread on the ball with your right foot.
• Squeeze the ball with your sole out to the side, so your legs are shoulder length apart.
• Keeping your foot in contact with the ball the whole time, push it back to the middle.
• Catch the ball in the middle underneath the sole of your left foot.
• Do the same squeeze and push move with the other foot.
• Repeat fast as you can for 1 minute.
9. Drag Stop
• Start with the ball on your right foot instep.
• Keeping in contact with the ball, drag your right foot over it towards your left foot.
• Allow the ball to run across in front of your body.
• Stop the ball with your left foot instep and drag it back to your right.
• Repeat fast as you can for 1 minute.
10. Juggles
• Finish with the old keepy-uppy favourite, keep the ball in the air using your feet and legs.
• If you drop it, start again and keep going for 1-minute minimum.