| Even the best soccer players have to put endless | | | | you, throw a ball up onto the stairs and as the ball |
| hours into their training. David Beckham started training | | | | comes down quickly, you have to control the ball. This |
| by himself at an early age and he would have been | | | | will help you with your first touch and the control of the |
| practising at different techniques to find perfection in | | | | ball. Also, using a wall can be useful when training by |
| his game. When you train by yourself you have to be | | | | yourself, you can practice with your passing, by kicking |
| more critical, and practice on both your strengths and | | | | the ball into the wall using different parts of the foot. |
| weaknesses. this is so important if you want to | | | | Keeping the ball moving as you would in a game. You |
| achieve your aims. | | | | can also try throwing a ball against a wall and |
| Organising your training and covering all aspects of | | | | controlling it with you chest or thighs. Using this method |
| soccer will improve you as a player. As you are | | | | has helped many soccer players improve their ball |
| training by yourself it is important to use as many | | | | skills. |
| types of techniques as you can, such as feints and | | | | There are different skills for different positions for the |
| dummies. Try using both feet, this makes it harder for | | | | soccer player to perfect. If you are a striker you would |
| the opposition to defend and mark. If you can watch a | | | | have to master your shots on goal and finishing |
| video on Christian Ronaldo, he demonstrates the best | | | | touches in front of the goal. For a midfielder it would |
| way the techniques can be done. | | | | help to concentrate on your passing and dribbling skills. |
| You should never start a training session without a | | | | The defender can practice on their tackling skills. |
| warm up and its also very important to end a training | | | | You will benefit from putting a lot of effort into your |
| session with a warm down. Being flexible in your joints, | | | | training and not treating it as just a kick around. If |
| muscles and ligaments will prevent injuries. Then you | | | | possible try and have a training partner, you can help |
| can continue to master the game of soccer. | | | | each other with your weaknesses and give each |
| If you have stairs handy with a little bit of room behind | | | | other more things to practice on whilst training. |