Crossing is a soccer method invented so you can bypass the annoying fluff of trying to get through hoards of attackers and passing the ball to a friendly soccer player without actually having to fight your way through.
This is a helpful soccer video because it gives you tactics from both sides of play. Taken from a training routine from the Spanish Football Federation, the video improves your team's ability to retain possession of the ball while also breaking down offense moves in terms of what defense can do to prevent them.
Consider this your Soccer 101 tutorial on how to control the ball on the field. UEFA Training Ground soccer experts Woody and Kleiny teach you how to catch high balls and collect passes from teammates. These are skills you'll be using time and time again during your soccer career, so learn them - or brush up on them - with this tutorial. And get ready to truly master your football game. Control the soccer ball with Woody and Kleiny.
Though soccer is a very physically strenuous sport, many soccer fans underestimate the importance of psychological steadiness and intimdiation of opposing players.
The term "trivela" may sound like a fun Latin dance or even an opera, but Portuguese soccer players recognize it as the name for kicking the ball with the outside of your foot.
Sami Hyypia, who plays defense for Finland, claims that it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are in soccer. Rather, it's your ability to read the game that'll determine whether you win or not.
This video will teach you to be fluid in your movement around the soccer ball, as well as use the outside of you foot effectively when playing soccer. If you want to improve your footwork, watch this video. Dribble with the outside of the foot during soccer.
Soccer stars Mao and Wagner, who have both won the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup with Brazil, share with you their expertise on how to do Samba-style goalkeeper drills.
Want to learn how to play soccer like the pros? Watch this UEFA Training Ground video to learn the actual ball control drills used by the Spanish Football Federation.
Having sausage legs and wobbly toes in soccer is equivalent to career death. Whether you play a striker or a midfielder, dribbling, passing, and controling the ball are the most important basic abilities needed to be a good soccer player.
In the 1970s, Dutch legend Johan Cruyff invented a soccer trick called the Cruyuff turn, which tricks the defender into thinking you're about to pass or cross the ball. Instead of doing either, you drag the ball behind you to keep dribbling towards your destination. Successful football skills are all about how you can trick your opponent with footwork and body gestures, so get moving with this effective soccer trick!
Juventus legend Alessandro del Piero is well known by soccer players and the soccer fanbase for his adept soccer turns and clever push forwards.
Without knowing how to pass a ball in soccer, you'd be a one-man soccer machine subject to getting mauled.
Full backs in soccer have the same job as full backs in American football: be big, defensive bodyguards that prevent the other team from penetrating their goal.
This soccer tutorial gets into the nitty gritty of free kicks, that wondrous move in soccer that frequently turns into a goal. Helmed by Roberto Carlos, the Fenerbahce S.K. wing-back, the tutorial shows you small yet important tactics to making the ball work for you.
Free kicks are common in soccer for restarting a play in a soccer game, and in this video free kick expert Shunsuke Nakamura shares his step-by-step method for taking a perfect football free kick.
Soccer star David James is the goalkeeper for England and Portsmouth, so he's more than skilled with closing in on an attacker from the football field.
Want to kick that soccer ball with as much expertise as your favorite World Cup star? Internation Soccer Street Association soccer player Darren Laver shows you how to perform an impressive move to kick the ball away from your opponent.
The full-back position in the soccer field is complex: while technically a defensive post, a full-back must also be ready to pass the ball to a teammate and score a goal.
As F.C. Barcelona's star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic explains, it's the defender's job to make your life as difficult as possible. So how do you get a defender to open up a spot for you to whisk away from him? Ibrahimovic shares a few tips in this video, including using speed, skilled footwork, and crazy steep swerves. This is a football training session that is vital for any soccer player looking to take his soccer team to victory. Get past defense as a soccer striker.
Practice your footwork by learning these 4 basic methods of getting a soccer ball off the ground. Lift a soccer ball using only your feet.
This video will teach you how to strike a soccer ball so that it will curve. This technique is particularly useful for corner kicks and may also be known as an inswinger. Strike a soccer ball so that it will curve.
Learn these fancy footwork soccer tricks made easy with step by step instruction. This video focuses on balancing a soccer ball on your forehead after juggling. Balance a soccer ball on your forehead.
Welcome to the Videojug Soccer School, brought to you in association with the Brazilian Soccer Schools. In this video we show you some drills to improve your defending by intercepting the ball. Intercept the ball playing soccer.
Players from the Brazilian Soccer Schools show you how to beat your opponent using the Rai flick. The Rai flick is a classic Brazilian move to beat a defender. This is a dramatic move where you send the ball in an arch. Now take it high over your head on an advancing defender. Take the ball between your heels and launch it. Practice Brazilian soccer skills: The Rai flick.
Players from the Brazilian Soccer Schools show you how to beat your opponent using the Zico. This is a classic way to beat the defender the Brazilian way- with flourish and style. The Zico is a 180 spin turn to keep the foot tight on the outside of the foot. It is seen as one touch. Beat your opponent at soccer with the Zico.
When building an attack in soccer, you and your teammates must think as one in order for the ball to connect smoothely from player to player. Get your football cronies on the same wavelength by practicing the one-touch passing move.
Manchester United FC and England's Wayne Rooney is a forward with full bag of hat tricks to deceive his attackers on the soccer field. At his UEFA Champions League debut against Fenerbahçe SK in 2004, he scored a goal using the Rooney dummy, a soccer feint in which you trick the opponent into thinking you're going to knock the ball into the goal when in reality you're making a swerve left or right.
Without a nice bag of soccer tricks, football players would all play at similar level and there would be no game as we know it. In this video, soccer tricks star Woody demonstrates UEFA Champions League winner Zinédene Zidane's double drag-back.
Woody and Wulfy, two international soccer superstars who demonstrate moves for the UEFA training ground, teach you a neat skill in this tutorial called the Nasri, invented by French international and Arsenal FC star Samir Nasri. Nasri has used this ingenious trick many times in the UEFA Champions League to confuse and get past his opponents.
Ever wonder why there are always crazy-looking people in World Cup soccer stadiums who wave their arms around frantically during a soccer game, and not just because they're crazed fans?
The excitement from watching the 2010 FIFA World Cup doesn't have to end at the television screen. Freestyle skills supremo Paul Wood and Norweigian star Tina Wulf show you how to perform football kicks on the soccer field to beat your opponent with style.
This may feel like a Nike ad (and I suppose technically it is an ad), but it's also a based-on-a-true-story-hollywood-motion-picture waiting to happen... This inspiring short film is part of an ad campaign series called Make THE Difference for the TMB Bank, but it's also a true story—here are the facts:
If the indicator is showing high, the weather will be sunny and warm, if it falls down below the middle, the pressure in the air is low and it will probably rain. Make a barometer and forecast the weather.
Learn these fancy footwork soccer tricks made easy with step by step instruction. Balance a soccer ball on your neck.
Crossing the ball in soccer can make all the difference between losing the ball and passing it with ease to a teammate. In this video, Portugal midfielder Deco helps you improve your crossing and free kicks (many of which often turn into goals).
Chelsea F.C. and Czech Republic goalkeeper Petr Cech believes that goalkeeping is one of the most important and strenuous positions on the soccer team. And with this video, he shows you just how hard tuning into the ball's whereabouts it.
When the 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in June, Ricardo Quaresma will be one soccer player to keep your eyes on.
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Get the ball under control so you can shoot, pass or dribble. These easy techniques will help you practice. Control a bouncing soccer ball.