How to Do a Ball touch Soccer Dribble

Series Summary

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Known as football in most countries of the world, soccer is a team sport consisting of two teams of eleven players each, one of which must be the goalie. The game has been played for centuries and can be dated back as far as 2nd and 3rd century B.C. China. In typical game play, players attempt to create goalscoring opportunities through individual control of the ball, such as by dribbling, passing the ball to a team-mate, and by taking shots at the goal, which is guarded by the opposing goalkeeper.

Dribbling is one of the most important, and also most difficult aspects of the game for a soccer player to learn. Ball handling and dribbling techniques and drills are the primary focus for many soccer coaches, as dribbling is the best and most aggressive manner in which to challenge an opposing player. In this free instructional video, our expert soccer coach will demonstrate some advanced dribbling moves. He will show a variety of dribbling techniques, including how to change direction while dribbling, how to do a roll over dribble move, and how to do an outside in dribble move.

Video Transcript

"My name is Tim Boucher soccer coach at LaSalle Academy for Expert Village. Right now we're going to talk about dribbling in advance dribbling getting a little bit more technique. What you're doing you learn how to control the ball and learn how to dribble. The first drills that we're going to work on are different kinds of ball touches, different moves. The first one is just a simple ball touch right on the top of the ball. You'll see the guys demonstrating this, just as they go nice and lightly using the tip of their foot. The second thing you can do with this is you can go around the ball. Around in a circle, nice and control keeping the ball right in front of you. A third thing you can do is you do ball touches, is standing on one side of the ball. We'll demonstrate this slowly guys. You step over and jumping over the ball just as if you're jumping over a defender as you're going down the field. Back and forth, go ahead and go full speed fellas. Nice and easy. Another thing we can do is standing behind the ball just working on our vertical leap. As well you can jump over the ball and back behind the ball and over the ball and behind the ball. Keeping in control."