Winger training
Wingers beat a player and deliver. Dribbling and speed lead your week, then the final pass. 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.
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.
Speed and agility
Footwork, acceleration and changes of pace.
Ladder & Cone Agility
Quick feet through a ladder (or cones as substitutes), followed by short sprints.
Sprint Intervals
Repeated 30m sprints with walk-back recovery.
Cut and Go
Accelerate to a cone, brake properly, cut, and accelerate away again.
Single-Leg Balance Circuit
Single-leg holds, reaches and airplane holds on a square of floor: the ankle strength a sharp first step is built on.
Fast Feet & Lateral Shuffle
Quick feet on the spot, side shuffles across a metre and small forward-back hops: the footwork a player uses between every touch.
Core for the Strike
Plank, side plank, dead bugs and glute bridges: the trunk a strike, a jump and a shoulder-to-shoulder duel all come from.
Skater Bounds & Line Hops
Side-to-side bounds and quick two-footed hops over a line on the floor, landed soft: change-of-direction power that needs no ceiling height.
Passing
Weight, angle and timing, against a wall or with other players.
Wall Passing (Solo) / Partner Passing
Stand 5-8m apart. Pass the ball back and forth using the inside of the foot.
Rondo 3v1
Three players keep possession against one defender in small grid.
Two-Grid Transition Rondo
Keep the ball in one grid, then break into the next one the moment it opens up.
Up, Back and Through
Pass in, get it laid back, then slide it through for the runner. Three players, one moving ball.
Blind-Side Check and Slip Pass
One player disappears behind the defender's shoulder; the other slides it into the gap.
Weak Foot Only
Two minutes against a wall using nothing but the foot they avoid.
Outside-of-the-Foot Wall Pass
Passes off a wall with the outside of the foot, the pass that disguises where the ball is going, from four steps back in a garage or a basement.
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
StrikerMidfielderFull BackCenter BackGoalkeeperDrills for ForwardsAll drills
Train as a winger, 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.