I’ve been fortunate enough to watch two excellent Arsenal vs Bolton games in the last week. Already Bolton under Owen Coyle look like a team who want to be more careful with the ball and play football on the ground. But in honour of Arsenal returning to the top of the Premier League I’m posting [...]

Check out this short video which provides a look at the technical points for the slap cut technique and reverse slap cut technique. Both these moves are great for pulling the defender off balance and then skipping away from their challenge and into the space behind.
You can also read some more soccer coaching points for [...]

Check out this short video which provides a look at the technical points for the outside cut technique and inside cut technique plus a simple ball manipulation exercise.
You can also read some more soccer coaching points for cut moves in this earlier post.

Outside Cut
With the ball just in front and between your stance:

Bring your dribbling [...]

This is post 5 in a series of 5 Key Points for coaching Running With The Ball. You can see a summary of the coaching points here, or

This is post 4 in a series of 5 Key Points for coaching Running With The Ball. You can see a summary of the coaching points here, or

This is post 3 in a series of 5 Key Points for coaching Running With The Ball. You can see a summary of the coaching points here, or

As anybody who has walked headlong into a lamppost will tell you: There’s a reason we shouldn’t stare at our feet, the pavement, or (as I discovered to my cost, aged 10) Link’s epic battle with Ganondorf, when we walk down the street.

Yet when young players start to dribble you could be forgiven for thinking a sinister group had somehow made the balls of steel and then magnetized their eyes.

Autopilot was engaged and the plane held its smooth arc effortlessly, a tiny silent speck gliding through the sky above the Atlantic. But still the pilot could never head upstairs for a tasty meal in the First Class Lounge. Could he?