Striker training
Strikers get one touch to set it and one to finish. Shooting and first touch lead your week. In Spatrian a player who sets their position gets these skills ranked first in every session, a drill for each of them that changes every week, and the puzzle that trains the position’s decisions.
Shooting
Striking a ball at a target, from the toe poke to the box.
Target Practice
Set up targets (cones, water bottles) in a goal area. Shoot from 8-12m trying to hit them.
Shooting from the Box
Receive pass and shoot from various positions inside the box.
Toe Poke Finish
Shoot with the toe of the shoe into a small gate against a wall, from a still ball and then a rolling one: the quick finish futsal players use when a defender is close.
Turn and Toe Poke
Receive a ball off the wall with your back to the target, turn with a sole drag, and finish with a toe poke through a cone gate before a defender could close: the pivô's quickest finish.
First touch
Receiving the ball so the next action is already set up.
Wall First Touch
Pass into a wall and kill the returning ball dead with one touch, then play it back with the next.
Pivô Hold-Up and Lay-Off
Receive with your back to goal like a futsal pivô, stop the ball under the sole while shielding it, and lay it off first time to a runner arriving from behind.
Receive, Half-Turn, Pass
Play the wall, open the body as the ball comes back, take the first touch across the body through a gate and pass again: the midfielder's half-turn off a wall.
Dribbling and turns
Carrying the ball, changing direction and beating a player.
Cone Weave Dribble
Set up 5-6 cones in a line (2m apart). Dribble through using small touches with both feet.
1v1 to Mini Goal
Take turns attacking and defending. Attacker tries to dribble past and score in a mini goal.
1v1 Channel
Attacker tries to beat defender in narrow channel to score.
1v1 Continuous Transitions
Attack, and the second the ball is gone you are the defender for the next one.
Rondo with the Escape Dribble
Keep-away where a player under pressure is allowed to dribble out instead of passing.
Back-to-Goal Hold-Up and Turn
Receive with someone behind you, hold them off, and turn only when it is on.
Tight Box Dribbling
Keep the ball moving inside a small square for a full minute without it crossing a line.
Four-Turn Circuit
One turn at each of four cones — drag-back, inside hook, outside hook and Cruyff — round and round.
Wing 1v1 with the Sole Stop
Run at a defender down a narrow wing, stop the ball dead under the sole to freeze them, then go again past them: the futsal ala's way of beating a player on the touchline.
Figure-Eight Dribble
Dribbling a figure of eight round two cones a stride apart with small touches, both feet, head up: close control in a space a hallway has.
The daily puzzle: Find the Space
Move to where the day's pass can reach you. One a day, two levels, a few minutes, for the decisions the position makes before the ball arrives.
Greats who played it
From the Legend of the Week: a sourced story from each career and the move they were known for, with the drill that trains it.
Other positions
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Train as a striker, week by week
Set your position in Spatrian and each week leads with the drills for it, read aloud by the Audio Coach and kept on your own training record, which your coach or personal trainer can read. The beta is opening to a small first group of players, coaches and families.