Passing

For passing, you always want to pass with the inside of your foot. Doesn’t matter which foot you prefer, but try to pass from inside of the foot because it is more accurate and the ball balances more on the inside of your foot. When you hit the ball with your foot from the inside, you can control the destination of the ball and it will go to the direction that you want to kick it to, but if you kick it properly. If you kick it with the outside of your foot, you can but it is harder than hitting it in the inside. If you are in a rush situation, you can pass the ball any way you want but remember, always try to hit the ball with the inside of your foot.

 

Shooting

When you shoot you want to hit the ball with the side of your foot. You want to look up at the target while shooting, Now we are going to shoot penalties. You will place the ball next to the cone. The you will stand bit away from the ball to get power in your shot. You then run to the ball when the goalie is ready and you aim either at the left top or bottom corner, or the right top or bottom corner. You don’t want to shoot it in the middle because then its easy for the goalie to get the ball.

 

Heading

There are some 2 ways of heading the ball in football. The 2 different ways are defensive header and scoring header. For defensive header, it is one of best way to defend the danger area when you opposition crosses the ball high in the air. When you opposition crosses the ball high in the air, it is more likely that your opposition will score with his head if you don’t defend it properly. To do defensive header, you want to head the ball up high and out of the danger area. To head the ball high and out, you want to go under the ball when it is flying to you and jump in to it as hard as you can and hit it with the top of your head. Then for scoring header, you want to head it as hard as you can to the target and you want to head the ball sharpe and down to the goal. To do scoring-header, you want to hit the ball with your forehead or your face or the side of your head to get a lot of power.

 

Long shots

In this drill you will learn how to shoot long shots. You will take a ball, place it about 5  meters in front of the middle line. You then start from one side and shoot the ball trying to score or at least hit the target. The skills you practice by doing this drill are accuracy drills and power drills. You also have to shoot with the top side of your foot to get the right amount of power so that the ball can reach the goal.

 

Defending

For the defending in football, you want put more effort to the ball when your opposition is dribbling. When your opposition is about to shoot, run want to run to your opponent and block it with your back because blocking with your back hurt less than blocking with your chest or your stomach. For tackling, you want to get your foot to touch the ball first or otherwise the referee will blow the whistle and you can’t tackle from behind.