Video: How to Control a Soccer Ball

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Controlling the ball is an essential soccer playing skill. Learn how to control the ball when dribbling with the tips in this free beginner soccer (football or futbol) skills video lesson.

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bigj300 Aug 02, 2008
good teaching
bigj300 Aug 02, 2008
good teaching

Video Transcript

Hi! I'm Mark Wilson with United Soccer Academy. We are here with Expert Village and we are going to talk a little bit about dribbling soccer balls, and our main point for the first lesson is control. Control of the soccer ball is the foundation for any soccer player that needs to build their skills for this exercise. So we are going to have a look at Mark over here who's dribbling for control. He has no pressure on the ball, just know and you can see that he is using different parts of his feet, he is using the inside, he is using the outside, he is using the sole, and the laces, he has his head up and he is taking one touch for every step of the ball. You can see that the ball is close to his body, so for every touch he takes of the ball he has one step. So just a recap the basics of dribbling. With no pressure on the ball, I do not have a opponent pressurizing the ball, we are basically dribbling to control it, we want to take one touch per step, we want to use different parts of the feet, we are going to use the inside, we want to use the outside, we want to use our laces, and we want to use the sole of our foot, and we have to keep our head up so we know where the space is that we are moving to.

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How to Control a Soccer Ball

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