Thursday, January 15, 2015

How To Improve Soccer Skills

By Enid Hinton


Soccer happens to be one of the most popular sports in the entire world and is a sport that many people love to play. Of course if one would want to play, then he might as well play to the best of his abilities because anything worth doing is worth doing well. Here are a few tips on how to improve soccer skills in a short span of time.

Of course in order to score a goal, one must have superb footwork because he will be kicking the ball around all the time. Now in order to be good in the field, one must make sure that he practices his dribbling skills because dribbling is the only way for one to be able to bring the ball to the goal. So before one can even want to play any kind of game, he has to make sure he is very good at dribbling first.

Now soccer is a team game which means that in order to score a goal, one has to keep on passing to his other teammates until a goal is scored. Of course there are so many ways to pass the football like from the front, the back, or from the sides. He should never try to hog the spotlight too much in order to score a goal.

Now another very important thing that one would have to take note of is that this sport is not just all about brawn but it is about brain as well. One has to practice something that is known as anticipation so that he will see beforehand what he should by doing. Of course the only way to gain this skill is to keep on practicing because it is only through practicing and playing games that he will learn this trick.

Now after learning some of the basics, one should now learn a little bit about basic defensive maneuvers. Now when one is up against an opponent and is guarding the ball, he would usually do a defense maneuver known as the press. In order to do this, one has to turn his back on his opponent while approaching him.

Now one other very important thing to practice would be faking because it can leave an opponent unguarded. One example on how to fake would be to approach an opponent, pretend to go to one direction and suddenly go to the other. This will bring the guard of the opponent down and will allow one to slip through.

Of course he should also practice some offensive tactics like trying to steal the ball from the opponent. Now this is a little bit tricky because while a player steals, he might injure the opponent accidentally. So he should practice stealing by using small side sweeping foot movements in order to steal without injuring.

Now the key to becoming a winner is dedication and a lot of practice. As long as one would practice these tricks, he will definitely become better and better as a player. Of course the better he gets, the higher the chances he has at playing in the actual field.




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