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A walkthrough of UCLA's college soccer ID camp shows drills that test communication, passing confidence, and footwork under close coaching. Connor Gallagher attends the camp, which restricts recording and keeps parents at a distance.
A walkthrough of UCLA's college soccer ID camp shows drills that test communication, passing confidence, and footwork under close coaching. Connor Gallagher attends the camp, which restricts recording and keeps parents at a distance.
What exercises do you do and training drills do you do and games do you do at a college soccer ID camp, specifically UCLA's? So this is the UCLA ID camp. The first thing they're doing is some type of variation of a Y-esque drill. And often what they'll do, which is super organized, see how they put everyone in teams? That's super professional because they're professional coaching staff. And right now they're doing passing drills. In the passing drills, what they're really looking for is who's communicating, who's looking over their shoulder, who's checking away from the cone back to the cone. And who's pinging it in? Who's confident enough to go, you know what, I'm gonna pass this so firm, not too hard, but like so firm that this makes me and shows that I am a confident player. And I can tell you the level is quite good over there. Over here are the goalkeepers doing their own type of session. They start with their feet and the coaches really get to work with you, you know, really close up in person, which is frickin' awesome. And the goalkeeper coach is very, very good. At UCLA. But here you can really get a good vibe. Now normally they won't let you record these, and I'm really far away, so they clearly don't want parents, you know, getting too close. That's why they went on the total opposite side of the field. But it'd be pretty cool if you could record this. This is me doing a bad job recording, but this would be better than nothing because at a UCLA ID camp, and right now they're just doing passing drill. I'm sure soon enough they'll do some shot stopping. Oh, did I mention that Connor Gallagher is also here?
