# Essential Soccer Activities

> Essential Soccer Activities (iPhone/iPad app by Mark Ruest.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/essential-soccer-activities/id1056769430 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mark Ruest](https://appshunter.io/developer/1056769429)
- Category: Sports, Education
- Price: $5.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.2 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2015-11-13
- Data updated: 2026-08-19
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/essential-soccer-activities/id1056769430/reviews.md

## What is Essential Soccer Activities?

Need soccer training activities at your fingertips?
Easily plan your team practices with appropriately structured, essential activities.

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Essential Soccer Activities brings you over 50 proven soccer skill training activities, categorized for convenience, and filled with succinct, quality, at-a-glance coaching information.

Simply pull the app out of your pocket, tap the activity you want, view the field set-up diagram, directions for play, coaching points, and go. Activities are appropriate for a wide variety of players. Three levels of coaching points combined with activity extensions are provided to accommodate different playing abilities. 

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GAMES APPROACH
Move beyond old fashioned ‘drills.’ Help your players to improve technique and tactics by using the economical "games approach". Learning via a games approach environment leads to greater transference to real game situations and is more fun for the players .

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ACTIVITIES ARE ORGANIZED INTO 8 CATEGORIES & 4 SESSION STAGES
• Dribbling
• Passing
• Receiving
• Shooting
• Goalkeeping
• Defending
• Bonus Games
• Match Conditions

• Stage I - Warm-up
• Stage II - Small Sided Activity
• Stage III - Expanded Activity
• Stage IV - Match Conditions

*Select an activity from each stage in a single category to quickly create a complete practice plan.  

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EACH ACTIVITY PROVIDES
• Activity details
• Activity diagram
• Set Up Instructions (equipment needs & player organization)
• Directions (rules & conditions of the activity)
• Coaching points for every skill level (Level 1, Level 2, Level 3)

## Chart rankings

- #177 in Top Paid · Sports (US App Store)


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 2.0.2 — 2024-05-05

Bug fixes

### 2.0.1 — 2020-01-27

• Rewritten from the ground up taking advantage of SwiftUI.
• Now native on the iPad
• Practice plan list syncs between devices via iCloud.

### 1.1.0 — 2016-01-09

• Added 'badges' to icons to help identify activity stages.
• Added the ability to pre-load activities into a separate practice plan list.
• Improved the detail screen to allow the coach to get to info more easily.
• Updated 'About the Activities' and 'About the App' information.
• Improved text formatting to improve readability.

### 1.0.0 — 2015-11-13

No release notes.

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