Improve your balance and control with this neat soccer trick
CRAIGHALL – IQ Football releases daily videos with help on mastering soccer skills and tricks. Here is one about balance and control.
IQ Football has not let the coronavirus slow it down or diminish its players’ enthusiasm.
Every day coach Sean Szabo loads a new video onto the soccer outfit’s social media pages.
Daily challenges are presented there, and Szabo encourages youngsters to use their time productively and learn these new skills.
There is also a competition for soccer players from ages three to 18, where if they take a video of themselves doing a soccer skill or trick and upload the video on Facebook or Instagram and tag IQ Football, then they can win a size-four soccer ball. The post must also include the hashtag #IQFootballSkillsCompetition.
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One video includes Szabo teaching one how to control a ball and hold it on one’s foot, promoting control, balance and technique.
“The important thing with this skill is to bring your toe up as close to your shin as possible… it creates a little V-shaped groove and then it’s easy to place the ball into that groove and that’s where we’re going to try to hold it.”
The first step to completing this skill is placing the ball in this groove and balancing the ball there on one foot. Players desiring a greater challenge can try to drop the ball onto their feet and then balance it.
The last step to the trick is flicking the ball either back up to a height players can catch it with their hands, or flicking the ball from one foot to the other.
“The main reason I am uploading these videos is to promote healthy living and for the children to enjoy, and also return some type of normality to the daily routines of soccer players.”
Szabo added that after speaking to parents who did not know what to do with their children for so much time of the day, he hoped that by presenting challenges to the children it gives them something to do constructively. He said his videos are also very short as he is aware many children perhaps have too much screen time at the moment.
Most of the skills he encourages on the videos can even be done indoors or outside in a very small garden.
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