Video: Changing Direction when Dribbling a Soccer Ball

Change direction when dribbling a soccer ball; learn how plus get expert soccer playing tips and techniques in this free beginner soccer (football or futbol) skills video lesson.

Video Transcript

Hi! I'm Mark Wilson with United Soccer Academy. We are here with Expert Village and today we are looking at dribbling the soccer ball, and now we are going to focus on dribbling to change directions. If we just look at our demonstrator here, we are going to use a inside cut. We are going to use the inside cut or our right foot, which means we are actually cutting to the left. So as you can see, inside of the right foot cuts the ball, so we can make a left turn. Our foot comes over the ball and we cut to the sides of the ball across our body. To move to the right, we cut with the left foot again, and then say cut, to know we are cutting with the inside of the left foot to make our turn and change directions. Again we are dribbling the soccer ball, we are just making a inside cut across our body. To cut with the outside of the foot, we actually call that a outside hook. So we are going to us the outside or our right foot now, and we are going to hook our foot around the ball. So we hook around the ball with the outside of the right foot. As we can see, that is called a outside hook and we are changing directions. The ball is always under control. Using the left foot again we bring our foot with the toe down, we come across the ball, and we hook around the ball so we can make a nice sharp turn to change directions. That is how we dribble to change directions using a couple of basic techniques.

Changing Direction when Dribbling a Soccer Ball

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