| Everybody knows that soccer is a game that is | | | | winning the game. Practice does make perfect. Keep |
| played between twenty - two players, eleven in each | | | | an eye out for your weaknesses too. It is difficult but if |
| team and a referee. Little do people realize that even | | | | you want to be at the top, you must know your |
| though this is a team game, most of the practice of | | | | weakness so that you can work on it and improve |
| each of the players can and is generally done on an | | | | your game. |
| individual basis. If you want to be a master player, then | | | | Playing ball alone can get boring so liven up your game |
| you have to learn to work around the ball and control it | | | | practice by adding a few obstacles along the way to |
| with your feet. You could begin by just playing with an | | | | the goal post. You may make use of old canisters, |
| ordinary ball, just kick it round to get the feel and you | | | | logs of wood etc., to work the ball around. Conversely, |
| will be able to play soccer very soon. | | | | you could rope in a few friends to help you practice. It |
| If you use a ball which is smaller in size, it makes you | | | | is much more fun to pass the ball around in triangular |
| more adept at maneuvering the ball with your leg. You | | | | patterns and try giving long and short passes. They |
| will soon see the results for yourself, as you will be | | | | could serve for both defense and offense. This way |
| hitting the ball more accurately into the goal. You could | | | | you get to practice at a live session. |
| mark the back wall of your house for the goal post or | | | | You could even get your friends together and play a |
| else if you have an old camping net, it could serve as | | | | small round of the game. Each payer could be given |
| the goal post. Practice aiming at the goal post from | | | | the responsibility to attack or to defend alternately and |
| every conceivable angle. Dividing the wall into sections | | | | you could play against each one of them. This is a |
| is a great way of playing ball. Practice putting the ball | | | | team sport but individual practice carries a lot of |
| into each section till you have perfected the art. | | | | emphasis. In a full scale match you may or may not |
| Try giving free kicks against the wall. Most of the | | | | get the opportunity to play with the ball all the time. But |
| world famous soccer players won gold for their | | | | when playing solo, not only do you perfect your |
| country by hitting free kicks or penalties, so there is a | | | | mastery over the ball but improve upon your weak |
| lot of scope in that area for winning. And every world | | | | areas which may be the reason for disqualification |
| class player has practiced his moves to perfection. So | | | | from the team. |
| there is no short cut to becoming a champion and | | | | |