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\f0\fs24 \cf0 Hey guys, this is Matt from Epic Soccer Training, and I kind of want to
take you through some soccer tips now about how you can improve your individual skill.
Like I say in a bunch of videos, and I'm sure you'll hear, soccer practice a lot of times
does not teach you the individual skills that you need to not only make yourself better
but also the teammates around you better. So that's something that I kind of figured
out and it took me from being at this level to being way up here. So anytime somebody
asks me how I did that, it's basically because of individual soccer skill. \
So one of the first soccer tips I want to teach you is basically just learning that
you need the fundamentals, um and again you are going to get a lot of that in some of
the other videos as well which you can check out, but it's a lot of touches on the ball.
You know, when you are at soccer practice and you are just kind of standing in line,
really doing nothing but waste your time, you always want to have a ball at your feet.
You always want to kind of want to be moving around. Again, the best thing you can do is
even when you are warming up, you want to just be able to dribble down the field and
work on your moves as you are going down the field warming up. You don't want to do them
like, super explosive without stretching first but, you want to work on that. \
Once you have the proper fundamentals down, which Ill teach you in some other videos as
well, just the basic approach... it's going to be a lot to do with ball control. And again,
ball control is just simply that. It's just being able to have kind of a umm sticky foot,
as they call it. Where you are just always kind of moving around the ball is never really
like about more than a couple of feet from you. You don't want to take a touch and then
it's like way out here and then you are trying to regain control because when you see Messi,
who is basically the best player in the world right now, the ball is glue on his foot. He's
moving around, he's doing all these fakes and it's going right where he wants it to
go. So to have good ball control is one of the ways to do that. Again, one of the ways
in which you can work on your ball control is not only just side to side stuff and shielding,
as I'll show you in some videos. Juggling is a great way to be able to work on some
stuff. So, again, work on that. One of the other things that really takes you to the
next level is actually your first touch... and a lot of people don;t really realize this.
When people are starting out, you want to really focus on your first touch, it really
is a lot, it's pretty mental. So, again, if Chad's playing me a ball, a lot of people
just take the ball and they let it kind of go way off off of their foot and they are
not really paying attention to where they want the ball to go. Again, if I have a defender
who is over here, and I get a ball played and I want to go over here, then shield him
and you want to keep it pretty close to you as well. So your first touch is pretty crucial,
you want to kind of, just be able to go wherever you want. So really focus on "Where do I need
to go" when you have the ball, "when it's played to me". When the ball's not at you,
you should be surveying the field, you should be looking to where you want to go. So if
you get the ball and you want to immediately go out here you need to know where your player's
at. So you're playing it out here and you have a player coming on to it. You want to
have your first touch be good because that was one of the first things that took me to
the next level when my coach sat me down and said, "Hey you really need to work on your
first touch if you want to have playing time. You need to get that down so you know where
to go with the ball because it slows down the play and you don't want to have that happen."
You want all your teammates to have great individual skill and that comes with your
first touch and then as you get into that, it's anticipating where everybody is going
to be and that gets into more team-play as opposed to individual skill. \
Like I said, it's a lot to do with being mental with soccer; a lot of people don't realize
that. It's what I call your soccer IQ, which I actually want to explain to you in the video
below. If you click on that right now, I'm going to show you and explain what that is
and I guess, more of the tactical side of things, you know, when you get to a certain
level, there are coaches wanting to break game film down and kind of learn how to play
like that, see other teams weaknesses and how you're going to exploit it, how certain
players play and their flow. So your soccer IQ is very important for that. It\'92s something
that isn't taught really a whole lot. I want to teach you what that is so, again, click
on the link below. Check that out. Also leave some comments and let me know if you have
any tips and suggestions or what you want. I'll come by and answer them personally so,
also click the subscribe button above and I'll see you guys in the next video! Take
care.\ }