How to Trap the Soccer Ball with Your Chest

Video Transcript

"Now what I want to get into is trapping with your chest and your shoulders. Basically what this is useful for is when there is huge balls that are in the air and they are coming down to you, you have to be able to receive them as soon as possible. If you wait for it to come down your feet somebody else is going to get it so this is how it works. With the chest you want to hold out a flat surface and then just drop it right in front of you or you want to pop it up and it will come right down to you. One thing about trapping is deciding where you want to put the ball next like do I want to go this way with it or do we want to go the other way with it. So the first touch off of the ball is always the first more important you don't even have to let it have to hit the ground if you don't want to. "