Step-By-Step Soccer Skills

by Smith, Dave; Edwards, Pete; Ward, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780600601142
• ISBN10: 0600601145
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc

Summary

Budding soccer stars--follow these training secrets that will amaze your teammates and baffle your opponents. Skills and fitness regimes of the professionals are your models. Start with the basics of how to strike the ball correctly. Then back it up with proper fitness and training, including stamina, strength, and stretching techniques. Master ball skills such as juggling, step over, drag back, Cruyff turn, feint, stop start, nutmeg, and round the corner. Practice set plays like the long throw, free kick, flick up and volley, banana kick, passed free kick, and whipped in corner. Learn champion passing, including wall, scissors, chest, swerve, back heel, and chipped pass, as well as finishing techniques from chipping and volleying to overhead and scissors kicks, as well as diving headers, scoops, glancing headers, and power shooting. Finally, formulate team strategies, from midfield diamond to man-to-man marking, so you and your friends can have a true championship season!

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
Fitness and Training	8	(26)
Basic Skills	34	(18)
Ball Skills	52	(16)
Passing	68	(14)
Finishing	82	(20)
Set Plays	102	(20)
Tactical Play	122	(12)
Systems of Play	134	(10)
Laws of the Game	144	(8)
Equipment	152	(2)
Glossary	154	(2)
Index	156