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Playing Soccer

You Can Play Soccer Anywhere You Want

You don’t have to wait until practice to try out your new techniques. We’ll show you how to set up a quick game when you are at home, at the park, or anywhere you can safely kick the ball around.

Play With a Simple Object

Choose an object to be the goal.

Illustration of a trash can and a hat

A trash can, a hat, or anything that can be hit by a soccer ball.
Score a goal by hitting the object. Keep score!

Make Your Own Small Goal

  • With your feet together, hold something out in each outstretched hand.
  • Move your right foot as far as you can. Play the marker outside your right foot.
  • Bring your feet back together.
  • Now do the same thing on the left side.
Hat, arrow, "goal", arrow, box
  • There is your perfect small goal

Playing With Small Goals

You don’t need two full teams to have fun playing Soccer with friends.  Use your imagination to create your own rules!

Here are a few of our favorite games:

Play With ONE Small Goal

Rules you can try:

  • No out of bounds
  • You can score from either side
  • The ball must roll between the markers

Play With TWO Small Goals

Make two smalls goals and put them more than 10 yards apart.

Rules you can try:

  • Have out of bounds
  • You can only score by shooting from a certain distance
  • The ball can bounce or fly between the markers for a goal
  • Choose your own goal

Play With MIXED Goals

Make one small goal and one large goal.
Rules you can try:

  • Player protecting the small goal cannot use their hands
  • Player protecting the large goal can use their hands
  • Choose your own goal

Play With TWO OR MORE FRIENDS

Make two smalls goals and put them more than 10 yards apart.
Rules you can try:

  • Have out of bounds
  • You can only score by shooting from a certain distance
  • The ball can bounce or fly between the markers for a goal
  • Choose your own goal

These are excerpts
from "Totally FUNdamental Soccer"

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TOTALLY is the player’s supplement to the FUNdamental  SOCCER 9-Step Practice book, complimenting the extremely successful training method. This 70-page book is designed in a coloring book format and excites the players to want to perform at home what has been taught in practice.

The players are guided toward playing the 1 vs. 1 game at home with step-by-step illustrations.   Every necessary Attacker and Defender technique are detailed with the use of the proper Buzzwords.  This is a must-read/color/study book for all young players!

Only $5.95