Find your game

All 20 games — plus 12 moves to practice solo, coach's picks first. Every one comes with an original diagram, plain-language steps, and a link you can text to your co-coach.

Sharks and Minnows

Minnows dribble across the shark's ocean — lose your ball and you join the shark team. The all-time classic.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Red Light, Green Light

Dribble on green, freeze the ball on red. The playground classic kids already know — now with a ball at every foot.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
Dribbling Gates

Scatter cone gates everywhere, then race to dribble through as many as you can. The heads-up scanning workhorse.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Knockout

Protect your ball, hunt everyone else's. Knocked out? Five juggles and you're back in the ring.
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
World Cup

Pick a country, attack one goal with your partner, and score to survive the round. The game kids beg for every practice.
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 5+ players
- 🧰 ball + goals
- ⚽ 1 ball per 6
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 15 min
Soccer Freeze Tag

Get tagged, freeze — until a teammate slips a pass through your legs. Playground tag with a built-in rescue mission.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
Clean Your Backyard

Two yards, one fence, balls flying both ways — kick every ball out of yours before the whistle. Maximum touches.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
Monkey in the Middle

Circle up and keep the ball from the monkey. The playground game that grows up to be the rondo the pros play.
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball per 4
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Hit the Coach

Dribble down the coach and let the shots fly — land one and the coach has to moo, cluck, or roar.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👥 2+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
Pirate's Treasure

Raid the treasure island in the middle and dribble your loot home to your ship. Four-year-olds fully commit to the bit.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones + pinnies
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Get Outta Here

Nonstop 1v1 duels to little goals. Score or lose it out of bounds — 'get outta here!' — and the next pair flies in.
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball per 2
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 15 min
Four-Goal Game

Real soccer with two goals to attack and two to defend — double the scoring, double the decisions, no keepers.
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 6+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones + pinnies
- ⚽ 1 ball per 6
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 15 min
Guard the Castle

One guard, one cone castle, a ring of passers. Move the defender with the ball, then strike — passing with a why.
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 3+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball per 4
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Knock-Down Soccer

Line up cone battleships and blast across the field to sink the other team's fleet. Every hit lands with a clatter.
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 2+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 12 min
Cops and Robbers

Robbers dribble their loot while cops hunt it down. Tagged robbers sit in jail until a teammate springs them free.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones + pinnies
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Musical Balls

Musical chairs with soccer balls — dribble while the music plays, then scramble to claim a new ball on the stop.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👥 3+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
Coach Says

Simon Says with a ball at every foot: toe taps, sole rolls, freeze — but only when Coach says so.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 5 min
Soccer Marbles

Marbles with soccer balls: take turns passing to hit your opponent's ball. The perfect two-player lawn duel.
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 2+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 low key
- ⏱️ 10 min
Tail Tag

Tuck a pinnie tail into your shorts and steal everyone else's. The perfect no-ball warm-up before the balls come out.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👥 4+ players
- 🧰 cones + pinnies
- ⚽ no ball needed
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
Follow the Leader

One leader, one copycat, two balls, zero cones. The easiest backyard dribbling game ever invented.
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👥 2+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
Wall Ball

A ball and a wall make a passing partner that never tires. Fire it in, meet the rebound, keep the rally alive.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball + wall
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Fast Feet

Quick sole taps on top of the ball, counted against the clock. A fast-feet ball-touch race for any age.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U4–U6
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 5 min
The Juggling Ladder

Learn to juggle one rung at a time — bounce-and-catch, then two, then three — and keep climbing your record.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 low key
- ⏱️ 10 min
Stop It Dead

Pass into the wall and kill the rebound stone dead in one touch. The first-touch practice you can run solo.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball + wall
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 low key
- ⏱️ 10 min
Wall Volleys

Strike the ball into the wall and volley the rebound back before it lands. Solo striking and touch in one.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball + wall
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
Slalom Run

Dribble a weaving line of cones as fast as you can, then race the clock to beat your own time.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball + cones
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 8 min
The Pull-Back

Drag the ball back under your sole to slip pressure and turn away clean. The first escape move every dribbler needs.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
The Stop-and-Go

Kill your speed to freeze the defender, then explode past. A change of pace that beats fancy footwork.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
The Big Touch and Go

Push the ball into open grass and win the footrace. The full-speed way past a flat-footed defender.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 high energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
The Scissors

Swing a foot around the ball to sell one way, then break the other. Soccer's most famous fake.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
The Body Feint

No touch at all — drop a shoulder, lean, and go the other way. The simplest move that still works.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U7–U9
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min
The Cruyff Turn

Fake a pass, drag the ball behind your standing leg, and spin off. Johan Cruyff's 1974 signature.
- 🎯 practice
- 👟 U10–U12
- 👟 U13+
- 👥 1+ players
- 🧰 ball
- ⚽ 1 ball each
- 🔥 medium energy
- ⏱️ 10 min