Hot Soccer How-Tos
How To: Pass A Soccer Ball With The Inside Of Your Foot
Passng Technique: The instep pass is the most common way and the most efficient to pass a ball in soccer. It requires the use of your inside foot. Passing a ball is similar to shooting. It requires you to have your plant foot a foot away from the ball. Bend your standing leg, and follow through the ball with the inside of your foot making sure you lean forward and with a locked ankle. In this article I will guide you to help improve your passing by talking about the different things you need ...
How To: Kick a soccer ball the right way
There is a reason the rest of the world calls 'soccer' 'football' - it's all about your feet! In this tutorial, from Zappos, learn how to kick a soccer ball the right way and win the game every time!
How To: Make a soccer ball drop
One of the most popular soccer moves is the drop or dip. In this tutorial, learn how to hit the ball properly for a good dip or drop.
How To: Practice half volley drills with a partner in soccer
This video shows soccer goalies how to practice half volley drills with a partner. If you don't have a partner you can use a wall.
How To: Run an obstacle course for soccer practice
Learn how to run an obstacle course to improve ball handling and dribbling speed in soccer.
How To: Teach kids how to dribble a soccer ball
This is a video demonstrating how to dribble a soccer ball for children. The presenter says that this is the most important skill for a young soccer player to learn. He says that dribbling the ball is not kicking the ball and chasing it but rather a series of small touches. He teaches that the ball is like a puppy on a leash. If the puppy gets too far away he runs off. If the ball gets too far away the other team will steal it. The next thing he teaches is to keep your head up. Don't run into...
How To: Play the left-back position in soccer
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.
How To: Bend it like Beckham (or curve a soccer ball)
In this how to video, you will learn how to curve a soccer ball. First, you will need to know how to shoot a ball. To shoot, line up striaght with the ball and keep your knee over it. Strike it with your toe pointed down and on the center of the ball. To curve the ball, line up with the side of the ball. Kick the ball so that the inside of the foot hits the ball on the side. When you follow through your kicking foot, your arm should swing across your body. This causes the ball to spin which m...
How To: Do the Around the World (ATW) freestyle soccer trick
Learn freestyle football with Mariusz Chorazy, also known as freestyle soccer. Freestyle football is the art of juggling a football (aka soccer ball) using multiple body parts while performing skillful moves at the same time (and never dropping the ball of course). Freestyle football consists of dribbling moves, fakes and tricks. Master your freestyle football moves with these instructional tutorials. This video demonstrates: the Around the World (ATW)
How To: Score goals in soccer when one-on-one with the goalie
Become a better footballer with Coach King's Skill School from the UK's best-selling football magazine, MATCH. This how-to video gives some tips for scoring ones. Follow along with the step-by-step instructions in this video soccer tutorial and learn how to score one-on-ones.
How To: Practice Step Over soccer drills
Learn how to improve your performance on the soccer field with the help of this simple step over drill.
How To: Do the Ronaldinho heel toe fake pass in soccer
Ronaldinho's combination of speed and deceptive footwork have made him a football legend, and his heel toe fake pass is a great way to misdirect defenders. Watch this video for step-by-step instructions on how to warm up for the trick and then how to actually do it.
How to Do soccer tricks: Around the world
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to do the Around the World soccer trick. When doing this trick, users are able to do an inner rotation known as Inside Around the World or an outer rotation known as Outside Around the World. Begin by hitting the ball with your toe and start rotating you leg. The ball needs to go up with the foot, but the foot should still be above the ball. Now end the rotation by landing the ball on the tip of your toe and continue to juggle. This video will benefit...
How To: Kick a soccer ball & do a drive pass
In this video from Livestrong we learn how to kick a soccer ball and do a drive pass. Adrian Heath, the head coach of the Austin Aztex, teaches this. It is demonstrated by members of his team in this video. To do a drive pass you want your left foot by the side of the ball, laces kicked through the middle of the ball and drag straight through the center of the ball and straight away through it. Drive through the middle of it. The drive pass is important to learn in soccer because it is a very...
How To: Successfully learn the Elastico trick
Learn the Elastico trick with this how-to video! 1. Decide which direction you want to fake with a soccer ball. 2. While leaning to the right, slide foot over the soccer ball (faking right). 3. Slide foot, blocking ball, causing it to bounce the other direction. 4. Make sure you keep your foot as close to the ball as possible to increase effectiveness of the fake. 5. Practice makes perfect. Skilled soccer kids show you how to perfect the elite soccer move, The Elastic.
How To: Do the Head Stall freestyle soccer trick
This is not charm school. Far from trying to maintain perfect posture, the man in this video is training his ability to balance things on his head for the love of sport, the sport of freestyle soccer. Here, you will learn how you to can pull of the iconic Head Stall freestyle soccer move, in which the ball in balanced on the player's head for as long as possible.
How To: Do the twist and turn soccer move
The UK's best-selling football magazine has teamed up with The FA to improve your game! This how-to video shows how to do the twist and turn move! Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to practice this running soccer move.
How To: Practice the Squirts drill for soccer
Learn the squirts drill, an excellent drill to develop a new soccer player's touch on the ball.
How To: Juggle a soccer ball step by step
In this tutorial, we learn how to juggle a soccer ball step by step. First, drop the ball from waist level and kick it back up so you can catch it. This will give you a better feel for the ball. Next, do the same thing but this time kick the ball twice before catching it. After this, as you get a better feel for the ball, kick it more and more before you catch it. Now, add another juggle and do this with your other foot. Keep adding more juggles in as you get better with the soccer ball. Have...
How To: Do the lofted soccer pass
Like achieving your wildest dreams, sometimes getting the ball over to a teammate who's far away requires one nice, guttural kick. When no one is within safe passing distance, you must employ the lofted pass, a strong-footed kick that lifts the ball vastly above the defender and lands within the grasp of your teammate.
How To: Do the Zidane double drag-back soccer move with Woody
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.
How To: Do Fernando Torres's signature soccer move The Drive
This video is demonstrated completely through visual movement and accompanied with a brief written description. A young man speeds down the soccer field with a ball and scores a goal. His signature move leading up to the goal is broken down into very specific methods of movement, the first of which is a high speed attack as he races down the field. The next method to this signature move is the weight shift, in which the goal scorer shifts his weight, along with the ball, from foot to foot to ...
How To: Practice the Four Square drill for soccer
Learn the four square drill in order to add movement and different angles to a passing workout for soccer.
How To: Intercept the ball playing soccer
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.
How To: Spin a soccer ball on the end of your finger
Touching a soccer ball with your hands for a trick is somewhat sacrilegious, but ever since basketball players started spinning the roundball around on their fingers, soccer players have felt the need to answer. This video will teach you how to spin a soccer ball on the end of your finger quickly and easily.
How To: Learn Brazil's Ronaldinho Elastic footwork tricks
Learn soccer skills Ronaldinho, Brazil's soccer wonder move Elastic. Learn how to play football the Brazilian way. These are tricks of Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Brazil. Brazilian Brasilian tricks revealed.
How To: Master the trivela soccer move with Ricardo Quaresma
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.
How To: Do a Trivela free kick
This video shows the viewer how to take a ‘Trivela’ free kick. This is where the player kicks the ball with the outside of their foot. This makes the ball curve towards the foot that the player kicked the ball with – a right footed shot will curve to the right and vice versus. The main point the video makes seems to be to make good contact with the ball. This is very crucial. The video also contains other tips and tricks as well as some footage of successful ‘Trivela’ free kicks taken by the ...
How To: Do the Hop the World (HTW) freestyle soccer trick
Similar to the Around the World and Crossover freestyle soccer tricks, the Hope the World or HTW shown here is a great trick where the player flicks the ball up, goes over it with the other leg, then catches the ball with the flying leg. You have to be able to jump and swing your legs pretty high, but if you can try out this move.
How To: Master crosses or corner kicks as a soccer goalkeeper
This soccer drill will show you how to develop and master your ability to handle crosses as a soccer goalie or keeper as they call it. This is a moderate drill made for JV high school or U-16 and younger. It is a pretty basic skill for soccer goalkeepers to master. Intercept the cross and you will greatly decrease the chances for scoring.
How To: Do the crossover freestyle soccer trick
The Crossover is one of the best-known tricks in the growing world of freestyle soccer, the soccer offshoot with a focus on doing trick with the ball. In this video, you'll learn how to do the crossover yourself by juggling the ball up, swinging your foot over it, then catching the ball with your ground foot. Pretty. Simple. Beautiful.
How To: Lift a soccer ball using only your feet
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.
How To: Juggle or dribble a soccer ball
This isn't a juggling trick with a ball, it's a real and essential part of playing soccer. Learn how to dribble (or juggle) a soccer ball.
How To: Practice Punt Receiving soccer drills
Play punt receiving drills in order to work on the receiving end of your soccer game.
How To: Shoot a knuckle shot in soccer
The knuckleball is an important part of both soccer and baseball, oddly enough, and the soccer version is a very effective shot that is probably much more widely used than the baseball pitch. This video will teach you how to shoot a perfect knuckle that will have most keepers confused and crying with shame.
How To: How Do the Blind Play Soccer? With Incredible Skill
I've heard blind people have heightened senses, but I never imagined it could translate to such superb soccer footwork. As you watch below, remember this- all players are legally blind except for the goalie.
How To: Juggle the ball in freestyle soccer whether standing, sitting, or laying down
Juggling the soccer ball is one of the most basic parts of freestyle soccer, the fine art of simply bouncing the ball continuously on the feet for as long and in as many different positions as possible. This video will help you get started with it, giving tips for doing it in three different positions: standing, sitting, and laying down. Mastering all three will really help you transitions and improve your freestyle game.
How To: Punch the ball properly in soccer
The goalie in soccer is unarguably the most important player on the pitch. Their skills are unique, and they have to perform well every game in order for your team to be successful. This video features an MLS goalkeeper offering instruction on one important of goalkeeping, punching the ball. If you can do this properly, you can utilize your hands
How To: Practice turning, dribbling and running with the ball
Reading FC Academy Manager Eamonn Dolan takes you through some simple turning drills. These are important for every player on the field to turn on a defender. Running, turning and dribbling with the ball is important to moving the soccer ball up the field. You can practice with a square as a group. Practice turning, dribbling and running with the ball.
How To: Practice the trifecta soccer drill for shooting skills
Play this game (trifecta drill) with a friend in order to improve your soccer shooting accuracy. The second video explains how to play a solo version.
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