How to Do Corner Kicks in Soccer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Christopher Howell with Expert Village and today I'm going to talk to you about how to watch soccer and it's basics. Some of the plays that you will encounter while you're playing soccer will be the things such like a corner kick. Now a corner kick happens when you're on the opposite side of the field, not your side, and you're trying to score a goal. Let's say one of their player kicks it out behind the line. Not the side line but behind the line that their goal sits upon. Well, if one of the defenders you know, decides you know that it's better for me to kick the ball because I'm by myself, there's too many of these defenders here, they're going to take the ball and score, well a lot of times he'll turn around and he'll kick the ball out of bounds behind him. In that situation, you'll get a corner kick. Sometimes corner kicks can be easier for the defenders to defend, depending on, you know, who they're playing against and that's a choice if they decide to take and sometimes it could be even harder. But a lot of times to get themselves out of that sticky situation and being scored upon, they'll go ahead and they'll kick it out, causing a corner kick and another reason why they'll do that is so, you know, they can go ahead and they'll stop the play, call a corner kick and they'll have time to regroup and get their whole team back there. Kind of give them better odds of getting the ball back down the field."