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HOW TO MASTER THE TECHNIQUE AND SCORE HIGHLY ON THE TEST.
Watch good players at live matches and observe the turns they use. They will perform many of the turns shown here.
Practice all the turns shown and others you may have seen with both right and left feet but then select only the THREE turns that you are most comfortable with, and MASTER them.
Practice these turns as often as possible - in the garden, in the playground, in games - so that YOU take the responsibility for YOUR progress.
When practising the turns there are THREE major DOs:
• Start slowly.
• Bend your knees.
• Accelerate away.
1. Hooking the ball with the inside of the foot
Reach and Hook to turn the ball . . . Don’t run around the ball. Move the ball on the turning touch back in the direction you want to go. .
2. Hooking the ball with the outside of the foot
Reach and Hook to turn the ball . . . Don’t run around the ball. Move the ball on the turning touch well in front of you, back in the direction you want to go.
3. The Step Over
Step over the ball low and quickly. Swivel your hips and play the ball back with the inside of your other foot.
4. The Drag Back
Turn ball under the body by rolling ball with the sole of the foot.
5. The Stop/Turn
Trap ball under the foot, turn, quickly play the ball with the other foot.
6. The ‘Cruyff’ Turn
Turn right foot inward with toe down and push the ball behind and away from you.
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DO
1. Keep your head up to observe the ball and your partner
2. Turn and accelerate away in the opposite direction, when opposite your partner’s shoulders .
3. Keep your body between you and your partner when turning. Use your furthest foot away from your partner. Turn away from him, not in towards him.
DO
1. Play with your head up to see where your partner is.
2. Practice your three best turns.
3. Turn and accelerate away.
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Spread out to allow the player on the ball space to turn against his/her opponent.
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Disguise your intentions when on the ball. Pretend to pass and then turn. Pretend to turn and then pass.
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Shield the ball and play with your head up
DON'T
1. Bunch so that both defenders are near the ball.
2. Pass to the team mate inside the area where there is an opportunity to turn and pass the ball to the target player outside the area.
DON'T pass for the sake of it - DO take responsibility and attempt a turn.
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Olympic Calibre- Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards was Triple Jumping back in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics, but he was probably best known as the athlete who wouldn’t jump on a Sunday because he was a Christian.
He won the Commonwealth Games silver medal in 1990 and 1994, and in 1992 took the World Cup Triple Jump. He took World Championship Bronze in 1993. But the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 was a disappointment. Jonathan returned from the Atlanta Olympics with a Silver Medal
He just couldn’t seem to win an OLYMPIC GOLD.
“It was probably the worst period of my life athletically. All my hopes and dreams had been blown out of the water.”
However, as a Christian he learnt from the experience, and had to question his feelings: “Am I really going to go for it 100%, come what may, win or lose? Is God first? Am I going to glorify Him and give my best to Him, regardless of results
The European Championships at
Budapest in August 98 were a triumph. Jonathan effectively won in the first found with a championship record of 17.84 metres. But with his last jump late in the afternoon came another record - 17.99 metres.
Finally at the 2000 Olympics Jonathan won GOLD. An achievement he dedicated to God.
Jonathan Edward’s Story shows us that there is more to life than winning but that with God on our side we can be more than just winners.
Romans 8 v 37
In all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Turning With the Ball
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We have seen from the previous section how important it is to be able to change speed and accelerate away from defenders.
In soccer you are required not only to run quickly but also stop, start and change direction.
These abilities can be improved so that the 'speed' test is really a test of how quickly you can change direction and change speed.
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HOW TO MASTER THE TECHNIQUE AND SCORE HIGHLY ON THE TEST
Here are two key factors to learn to score highly on the test.
1. How to keep your body - centre of gravity - low in order to turn quickly. To do this it is necessary for you to bend your knees and lean forward when changing direction.
2. How to accelerate quickly away from the turns. To do this you should follow this advice:
Keep your head still (don’t shake it from side to side).
Lift your knees when running.
Swing your arms backwards and forwards not across your body.
Key Factors:
Wrong foot the defender
Lean forward
Bend your knees
Get up into a position to run as quickly as possible - keep low. Don’t stand up straight and then run, but start running for the line in as low a position as possible.
Lead your momentum with your head - but keep it steady.
Who won the 2002 World Cup for Brazil?
Perhaps you think it was Ronaldo -
after all, he did score twice in the final.
team chaplain Alex Ribeiro disagrees. He believes the Brazilians fielded a crucial 12th man against Germany.
…God.
Ribeiro is convinced God favoured his team over in the 2002 World Cup final because they were more committed to God.
"A German journalist asked me, 'Do you really think God helped to win the World Cup?',".
"I said yes. He said, 'How can he do it? Why choose Brazil and not Germany?'
"I asked him if the German team got down to their knees to thank God, and praise him after the game. He said no. I said that was one reason."
Ribeiro has been team chaplain for the past four World Cups, at the end of the match many of the players took off there shirts that said ‘For Jesus’ and all of them prayed at the end of the match to thank God for winning.
Speed
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Dribbling is one of soccer's most effective and exciting techniques.
Here are three simple rules to remember.
1. Where to dribble?
Dribbling involves risk so DON'T dribble in or around your own penalty area, but DO dribble in or around your opponent's penalty area.
2. When to dribble?
DO be prepared to dribble as often as possible. Even the best dribblers fail more often than they succeed. DON'T be afraid to have a go!
3. Why?
Good dribblers dribble for a purpose - to create space to shoot at goal or pass to a colleague to shoot at goal. So . . . DO get maximum benefit from your dribble. DON'T waste the chance to shoot or pass to a team-mate who can.
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Dribbling - How to Master the tests |
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HOW TO MASTER THE TECHNIQUE AND SCORE HIGHLY ON THE TEST.
You can use any move you wish in order to complete the test, but to achieve the best results from this test and to develop your dribbling you should:
1. Imagine that the markers are defenders.
2. Use a ‘fake’ or a ‘feint’ in front of the markers - pretend to go outside but pass the marker on the inside.
3. Accelerate away to your right using the outside of your right foot to push the ball forward and past the marker.
4. When learning the moves begin slowly.
The moves listed will help you make progress in your dribbling technique. Try these moves and others you may know but to assist you, select one move to use when passing markers A and C on Line 1 and one move to use when passing markers B and D on Line 2.
The three moves are described and illustrated for right-footed players. These can and should, of course, be adapted and practised by all players on their left side.
THE MOVES
1. ‘Matthews’
1. Move the ball with the inside of your right foot to your left side and fake to go to your left, by leaning to the left
2. Move your right foot quickly behind the ball so that the outside of your right foot is behind the ball .
3. Accelerate away to your right using the outside of your right foot to push the ball forward and past the marker .
2. ‘Scissors’
1. Play the ball out in front of your right side.
2. Pretend to play the ball with the outside of the right foot but step over the ball with your right foot.
3. Take the ball away with the outside of your left foot past the marker.
3. ‘Double Touch’
1. Pretend to be about to play the ball to your right with the inside of your right foot - your upper body should be at an angle.
2. Draw the ball across the body with the inside of your right foot.
3. Take the ball away to your left side with the inside of your left foot past the marker.
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Key Factors:
Be positive from the moment you control the ball. Control the ball in front of you and attack the space either side of the defender on your first touch.
Attack with the ball in the direction of one of the markers.
Commit the defender to going one way and then use one of your favourite moves to wrong-foot him/her to accelerate the other way.
Dribble when:
Space is available.
You are not outnumbered by defenders.
Dribbling
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you now know how to dribble. But how do you find your way around life’s problems?
There is a Bible on the North London United badge. The Bible is God’s Guidebook for our lives - Psalm 119 v 105 What else can you find on the badge?
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