Manchester City Circle Warm Up

I have always been fascinated with the footwork of soccer players.  Soccer and basketball really do complement each other in terms of strategy, conditioning and footwork.  You have to play in space, move together, and be able to win your one on one matchups within the team concept. 

One thing that soccer players do is have really neat warm up drills that teach the proper footwork that they apply in games.  Below is a video posted from Manchester City.  It’s a good 5 minute warm-up that can be a switch up from what you do every day in practice.

This coach uses 26 cones for 18 players and he goes through a series of movements around, through, and over the cones.  He will give a movement, like bunny hops over the cones, and on his whistle, the players will either run to the center of the circle or to the outside of the circle and back.  They did 2 sets of each exercise, and each exercise lasted about 15 seconds.  Enjoy the video and the list of movements are below:

- Jog
- Zig-Zag
- Rainbows
- Bunny hops
- High kicks/shuffle back
- Trunk twists
- Close the gate
- Open the gate
- Forward and backwards
- Kick-backs