Most important skills ranking?
This is completely a curious question to you all out there. I was having a discussion with a friend / dad of one of my players. She is good but lacks some finer finesse and touches on the ball. We got into a discussion about what the most important things she could work on, on her own and it forced me to try and prioritize the skills that would most improve her game. In that exercise I came up with a list below. It isn't exhaustive I'm sure but for the youth level U11-U14 I'm curious as to which are the skills you all think are most important to master. What would be your top 5 skills out of the list? Again I know skills are interrelated, I just thought it was an interesting thought experiment
|| || |First touch when dribbling| |First touch when receiving on ground| |First touch when receiving from air| |Timing when shooting off the dribble| |Defensive awareness & positioning| |Defensive challenge timing| |Defensive containment| |Accurate short pass| |Accurate medium pass| |Accurate long pass| |Appropriate passing speed| |Dribbling footwork/coordination| |Physical Speed| |Power when shooting| |Placement when shooting| |Agility (side to side) speed| |Shielding| |Off-ball offensive awareness| |Pre-Receiving ball awareness| |On-ball awareness, field vision| |Timing when shooting - from pass (1 time)| |Intensity/aggressive to ball| |Winning 50/50 opportunities| |Communication with teammates|
Posted Oct 6, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC