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Summary: Soccer skills and coaching tips; learn a good exercise to teach your youth soccer team the correct way to head a soccer ball in this free online video guide to coaching a soccer team.
A former collegiate and semi-professional player, Glenn Holzer has been coaching soccer at the youth and college level for more than 20 years. He currently holds a USSF "B" license...read more
"All right, this is Glen and I want to show you a little exercise for heading right now which is a unique technique to the game. What we are going to do is have the players that are on their knees head the ball, follow through and end up on their arms and it looks something like this. They are going to try to contact the ball and not let it contact them, hitting it on the hard part of their head using their whole body to follow through. These players being around 12 years old are pretty capable at heading and they should already have this skill. If not, it is something you should work on with this age group. "
eHow Article: Heading Drills for Soccer