If you want to look like a pro when handling a soccer ball, you don't need to spend years learning how to be the perfect player-you just need to master some really cool tricks! Once you get them down, they are great way have fun with your friends and family, while playing around with the ball.
The actual game of soccer aside, there is a lot more you can do with the soccer ball. The game is fine, but once in a while, the viewers do like being treated to a bit of skill, a bit of artistry a bit of fancy-footed play.
One of the best most basic ones to start with is the basic juggle. This is one that pretty much every player knows.
It also helps you to achieve better ball control for the other cool ones which you learn later. The basic juggle is simple.
The first step is to lift the ball on to your foot and then start juggling it. By juggling, start kicking the ball lightly in the air and don't let it fall to the ground.
There are plenty of variations in the juggle. You can start with the normal juggle where you keep lifting the ball on the front part of your feet repeatedly.
Make it difficult by switching from one foot to the other. Make it even more difficult by trying to lift the ball with your inner heel and then the outer heel.
The key here is to keep your eye on the ball, and maintain a good balance on one leg while you juggle with the other. This trick helps you improve your touches on the ball and improves ball control.
The basic foot stall is the next one. This one you have probably seen players do several times on TV.
The objective of this soccer trick is to balance the ball on your foot, toss it up in the air, and catch it with the same or the other foot. For this trick, you have to stand with one leg in the air, the ball atop the foot.
Then toss the ball in the air. To catch the ball, you have to kind of cup your foot by turning the ankle towards the front and then catch it.
The head stall is another popular variation. The trick to this one is to balance the ball on your head, toss it up gently and catch it and balance it on your head.
This requires a lot of practice! Next, try an "around the world."
This is another very popular one. The player here starts with balancing the ball on the front part of his foot, and then toss the ball in the air.
And while the ball is in the air, move his foot around the ball (the world) clockwise or anticlockwise. And once the leg has gone around the ball, the player has to again balance the ball in the starting position.
Of course, balancing the ball might be a little tough after tossing it up and moving your foot around it, so the easy way out here is to pass it to someone next to you! You can make this trick more difficult by doing going around the world twice and going around the world with both feet.
This trick too improves your balance, alertness and ball control. Last, go for the Rainbow.
The rainbow is perhaps one of the easiest ones in the book. Assuming you are right-footed, keep the ball between the left leg, which is ahead and the right leg which stands behind the left.
Now lean forwards. You keep your left foot pointing forwards while the right foot pointing sideways.
Now with the right foot, roll the ball up to the back of your heel, and then kick it with the back of your heel. The ball should, ideally, fall in front of you at the end of the semicircular path.
The key is doing this over and over again until it feels natural, and becomes easier. You will be having fun and impressing your friends in no time!
Author Resource:-
Terry Daniels has been soccer a coach for the last 36 years and written hundreds of articles about soccer all over the world especially in developing countries. He recommends buying a good street soccer ball.
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