There are a variety of skills that everyone needs to master in order to be successful playing soccer. You likely have heard coaches or other people in the game calling these skills the “soccer fundamentals” which are particularly important. Some of these skills are fairly obvious. For example, even if you’re a beginner I’m sure […]
Receiving
Backyard Drills: Receiving the Ball on the Short Hop and Dribbling
For our first ever blog post, we shared 5 Ways to Improve Your Skills in Your Backyard. In that article, the second way to improve your skill was working on your trapping. Trapping the soccer ball is actually an older term that’s fallen out of fashion; the updated term is receiving. There are four ways […]
The Importance of Receiving the Ball Across Your Body
Soccer coaches often encourage their players receive the ball across their body. Some even demand it. When I was younger, for one, my coach Brian Jaworski told me that if I watched the English Premier League (EPL), I would see that all the best players receive the ball across their body. I do watch the […]