Seven Soccer Goalie Tips

May 29th, 2010 by soccer

If you are playing as a soccer goalie, then you should read these tips, print them and keep them. But just reading these tips isn’t enough. You would also need to practice them and make them a part of your daily routine, if you thinking of really been a great goalie. The main aim of the goalkeeper is to save the goal and they should be ready for it at all times. Adapt the tips in the matches that you play to become a great goalkeeper.

Soccer Goal Keeper Tips

1. Keep yourself focused on the ball at all times
Don’t fall in the trap of just looking at the ball when it’s in the 18-yard box. Keep yourself focused on the ball at all times, even if it’s far away from you. Many goalies have realized to their horror the consequences of not paying attention to the ball when its far way.

2. You should be ready to leave the 18-yard box
The primary mission of the goalkeeper is to save the shoots from reaching the goal. Also at some point in the game, you will need to leave the 18-yard box. However, don’t do it too often else, the opponent can easily score while you are away. Be prepared to leave the goal and run in order to save the ball. Don’t hold back at this time, instead run with confidence and determination.

3. Jumping to reach the crosses
Before you jump in the air to save the ball, ensure that you can actually reach the ball. When you should actually jump and go for crosses and when you shouldn’t is very difficult to say. In fact this is something that you will actually learn on the field as you gain more experience. If you lose the ball in the air, then the opposing team has an advantage over you.

4. Learn from your mistakes
Understand that making mistakes is a part of the game. Unless you make mistakes, you won’t go any far. Have confidence in yourself and then you can take out the opposition. At times, you would concede a goal. At these times, analyze what went wrong and then try not to repeat the mistake again.

5. Surprise your opponents
Don’t make the first move; instead let your opponent do it first. In this way you would be able to take them by surprise. As a soccer goalie you should be able to judge the body language of the players. This is very important when the offensive players are taking a shoot. You must be able to judge when, how and where the strikers are planning to shoot.

6. Standing close to the goal line is necessary
It’s important that you stand close to the goal line (about one yard). Standing too far away from the goal line can give immense opportunities to the opposing team. Lastly, you don’t want to be caught unawares.

7. Don’t be afraid of getting hurt
A goalkeeper can’t be afraid of getting hurt. You need to use you whole body to stop your opponents from scoring. In a tight situation, (especially during the corner kicks) you must do everything you can in order to save the goal. Injuries happen in spite of all the training and the gear that the goalkeepers wear, but then it’s a part and parcel of the game.

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The Best Seven Soccer Dribbling Tips

May 29th, 2010 by soccer

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Intro to Soccer Dribbling
One thing you need to keep in mind about soccer dribbling is to never play solo just to show people how skillful you are. Dribbling is only justified when you can’t find a free teammate that you can pass the ball to. However, if you can find an unmarked teammate within a striking distance, then passing the ball to him should always be your number one option.

1. Maintain your center of gravity
The center of gravity is extremely important for your dribbling skills. To give you an idea of how the center of gravity works, you could draw an imaginary line form your torso to the ground. The center of your gravity would be located between your feet. If you were too close your feet and stand, your center of gravity would lie beyond your feet and you will fall and lose equilibrium. But if you were to spread your feet and squat a little, you would be able to maintain your center of gravity. Maradona was a master at combining his center of gravity together with his dribbling skills which made him almost impossible to stop.

2. Study your opponents
It’s important for you to study your opponents before you actually play the game. If you have never faced a player before, I recommend you to spy at him during the warm up in order to identify his weak sides.

3. Avoid performing the same move too often
When you are playing a game, never try out the same dribbling moves more than 2 times on the same defender. If you use the same dribbling techniques over and over again, your opponents will soon or later figure out how to stop you.

4. Always look in the direction that you moving
Don’t look at the ball when you are dribbling, instead look at your opponent and the direction that you are going. Lots of young players as well as experienced players are known to make this mistake.

5. Keep the ball close to your feet
Keep the ball close to your feet while you are dribbling. If the ball is far away from your feet, your opponent will surely be able to clear the ball away from you.

6. Use your both feet
If you really want to be good at dribbling, I recommend you to learn how to dribble by using your both feet.

7. Don’t be too predictable
If you were extremely predictable, then you would not achieve anything with your dribbling, even if you have great dribbling skills.

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Here Are Four Crucial Soccer Skills You Need To Own

May 28th, 2010 by soccer

What are the most important soccer training skills? Well this all depends on how skilled you are but you need to keep in mind that there is always something you can improve in your game.
Passing – This is the most vital part of all soccer skills and without knowing how to pass the ball you will not either know how to play soccer. Learning how to pass the ball doesn’t require any long time. However, to learn how to master it will take you many hours of practice. One thing you can do to improve your passing skills is to kick the ball against a wall. This will not only improve your passing skills, you will also increase your receiving and trapping skills.

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Receiving – if you don’t know how to receive a ball your performance on the field will be pretty poor. Your teammates will not either pass the ball to you if they realize that you don’t how to receive it. However, learning to receive a soccer ball is not that difficult as learning rocker science The most important thing while practicing on your receiving skills is to have your feet relaxed and focus on the ball. One thing that will help you improve your receiving skills is to receive the ball while being on your toes. If you don’t believe in this, you may try it out by yourself and I can ensure you that it will be much easier to receive the ball with accuracy and precision.

Shooting – Without knowing how to shoot you can be pretty sure that your scoring abilities will be pretty poor. What you may don’t know is that you don’t need to have the most powerful shoot in your team to score many goals. The important thing is to hit the goal. I mean what is the point of shooting hard if you can’t hit the goal? One thing you can do to improve your shooting skills is to aim at posts every time you shoot. Try also to shoot on the ground because goalkeeper generally need more time to dive after low shoots. Practice on your both feet to increase your chances of scoring.

Heading – This skill is pretty important whether you are playing in defense or in offense. However, good heading players tend to score much more goals on corner and free kicks than the players with poor heading abilities. You should not either be afraid of heading the ball. Keep in mind that if you don’t head the ball with determination and power the ball will strike you instead. So, always remember to attack the ball and never stand still on your spot and wait for the ball to strike you.

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Three Essential Soccer Techniques You Must Master

May 27th, 2010 by soccer

Although it may seem to a beginning player that soccer requires a wide and diverse range of abilities, all you really need for a superior game is three basic soccer skills. However, mastering these skills requires intense and regular soccer training, both alone and with a team. Here are the three primary skills required by soccer and easy ways to perfect them in your own backyard.

1. Ball control
This means being able to take and keep control of the ball in a variety of situations, including while running and while under pressure from an opponent. One of the best ways to master ball control is to work against a wall. Kicking the ball against the wall and responding to its rebounding will allow beginning and intermediate players to get used to the way the ball responds to their foot movements. More advanced players can preselect different techniques, for example blocking the ball only with the inside of their foot, to master using techniques from a variety of angles.

2. One on one plays
Whether you are an offensive or defensive player, your interactions with the opposing team will be the key to your success on the soccer field. For defensive players, the most important one on one moves are blocking the other team’s offensive plays and taking possession of the ball. For offensive players, this means being able to get the ball past opponents, usually either by faking or by finding weakness in their techniques.

Although one on one plays may seem difficult to master on a solo basis, they really boil down to dribbling skills, which are easy to practice alone. You can practice dribbling the ball in a straight line or set up a more complicated course with cones or other obstacles. You can practice fakes by making the ball appear to be going in one direction before quickly moving in another.

3. Handling the ball
One skill that all successful soccer players have in common is the ability to accurately and forcefully kick the ball. This means knowing the three main kicking techniques, which are the push pass, the curve, and the instep drive. Another key part of handling the ball is knowing how to head the ball. Again, practice makes perfect. The best way to practice ball handling skills is to use a large number of balls and work on one technique at a time. Having to chase after a ball every time you kick it can keep you from perfecting your technique, so have an arsenal of soccer balls on hand for this exercise.

Once you have mastered these three main skills, the rest is just details. The key to learning the fundamentals of soccer is regular practice, both as a team and on your own. Practicing your game at home will allow your team to focus on team building and working as a coordinated unit at practice. With no special equipment and no coaching required, there is nothing standing between you and the soccer success you deserve.

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New Designs – Unique Perspectives

May 17th, 2010 by soccer

Here at Pro Trainer Soccer we are always looking to innovate our product if we can. Sometimes you have to make decisions based on economics. That is just the way of the world. So it is good to get outside input when possible.

So when we were approached this year by several engineering students at two East Coast university’s saying they wanted to get hold of a Pro Trainer and use it for their class projects we said sure. Let’s open up the brain box and get some new ideas and perspectives on it.

Well one of the projects is done and we just got a preview of it today and well this student has done a remarkable job. Evan Moghadam is a senior at the University of Cincinnati and did his senior design project on how to recycle soccer balls back onto our machine without picking them up. An auto feed system if you will. Now we have designed our own version of a backyard goal/recycling system over the years but we only use it in our own training as it was too bulky to sell.

So as you can see from this image below Evan has come up with a working design to have players pass the ball to the machine and have them get picked up and recycled to the Pro Trainer. This has awesome application for the backyard training model using the Pro Trainer.

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