How-To-Trap-A-Soccer-Ball-With-Your-Foot
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Welcome to Epic Soccer Training YouTube channel.
I want to take you through how to trap a soccer
ball with your foot.
One of the biggest things you need to know
in soccer is obviously how to maintain possession
and how to have a great touch, a great first
touch and the fastest way to do that is to
learn how to have a good first touch and how
to be able to trap the soccer ball.
So being able to learn how to trap a soccer
ball with your foot is one of the biggest
things that you can learn because that's where
you're going to be trapping with the most
even though you can do chest traps, knee traps,
anything along those lines.
So I want to kind of teach you how to do that
first.
So when Chas plays me a ball, get on your
feet and just let the ball kind of hit you.
You want to hit right on the ball of your
foot so right here and then what you want
to do is a lot of people mess up and let me
use my right here because most of you guys
are probably right-footed.
So a lot of times people mess up.
They just kind of hit the ball back and you're
not actually trying to hit the ball back.
You're just trying to stop it or move it in
whatever direction that you want.
So again, what you want to do is as soon as
the ball gets to you, just kind of let back
up a little bit.
So let me see if you can see it here.
Just let back up and it will stop the ball
right where you want it and again, when you
start getting into higher levels of playing,
you will see this in some of the other trapping
videos.
Make sure you watch those too but you're going
to start learning different ways to move where
if there's a defender over here and you want
to trap a ball, you might use the outside
of your foot and get away.
So again, you always want to make sure you
have that really light first touch and one
of the ways to do that is just stay on your
feet.
A lot of people stay on their heels and so
when they go to reach the ball, they just
have these awkward and like thumping movements
around or it just looks really awkward.
So again, one of the ways even if you're working
towards the ball just a light touch and then
get your foot on the ball and keep practicing
that way and there's tons of different ways
to trap.
If the ball is coming up as well to trap it
Chas, throw me kind of like a volley.
So if the ball is coming at you, you should
be able to kind of trap it like that where
it's just real subtle.
Give it a little poke and just make sure that
you're dropping it down exactly where you
want to.
That's I think one of the things people need
to work on the most is how to actually trap
a soccer ball where they need it to go and
they don't really think that far and what
you need to do is you need to start anticipating
where to go and again you can trap a soccer
ball with the insider foot and see how it
just drops right down.
So I'm ready for my next pass or I'm ready
to survey the field and take a shot.
So again, those are all those things and so
those are some of the fundamentals of how
to trap a soccer ball with your foot and again,
one of the ones that I like to do is if I'm
going at the ball and I have a defender and
I'm holding him off with the ball, is I hold
him off this way and I will just kind of let
up and then they're obviously anticipating
so they're going this way.
So one of the great things to do is say that
I have a defender on my back and I want to
go to goal.
Play it and then I'm off.
So that's one of the things that you want
to work on is knowing actually where to go.
That's the important part of learning how
to trap a soccer ball with your foot.
It's maintaining possession and then figuring
out where you need to go or where the defender
is so you can get into open space.
So again, leave me comments.
Let me know what you like to learn.
If you like to learn maybe some turns going
to goal or anything like that, some cool little
flair with how to flip the ball through and
take a volley and stuff like that, leave me
some comments.
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