How to Cross a Soccer Ball

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jyler Noviello, and I'm going to tell you how to cross the soccer ball. When crossing a soccer ball, it usually occurs when the ball is out on the wing, and your players are inside the box, towards the goal, and you're trying to pick a player out, to try to score. Now, there's a couple of different ways you can cross a soccer ball. You can cross the ball on the ground, which would be using the instep of your foot, and you firmly hit the ball directly across the goal mouth, or you can hit the ball in the air, which would be using the same part of your foot, but you want to get under the ball a little more, and get the ball up in the air, to your player running towards the goal. Now, there's also a couple of different ways you can strike the ball. You can strike the ball firmly, or you can strike the ball with a bend. If you strike the ball firmly, you want to come and hit the ball, with the center of your laces, and directly knock it across the goal. If you're actually aiming to pick out a player, you want to kind of come across the ball more, and hit it in the center, as the curve the ball, and pick out a player. Those are a couple of different ways to cross the ball."