Soccer Skills - How To Improve Your Weaker Foot

Improving your weak foot takes a serious amount of time and hard work for results to start to show. There's no doubt that the best players in the world have almost equal ability with both feet. They can perform dummies, tricks and pass efficiently with both feet giving them more options and opportunities when they have possession of the ball. Being able to use both feet is a skill that every modern footballer needs to have.

There is no real secret to improving your weaker foot other than hard work in your soccer training. As a player you need to be able to dribble with both feet giving you the sense of unpredictability against defenders. It allows you to beat defenders either using your left or right foot. To improve your weaker foot ball control you can do simple drill is such as little cuts, any kind of touches on the ball with your weaker foot is improving it. To accelerate the process of improving your weaker foot you need to perform dribbling drills such as little cuts around any kind of objects. To perform this you dribble the ball touching the ball with the inside of the foot with your weaker foot then with the outside of foot with the weaker foot and repeating this is in a continuous motion. You can then create a variations such as 2 touches with the inside foot and 2 touches with the outside of the foot. Another one is two touches with the inside of the foot and one touch with the outside of the foot. There are many variations to this drill and is your hard work that will make these drills pay off.

To improve passing with your weaker foot you simply have to do use your weaker foot. This can be done by either grabbing a mate and simply passing the ball in different styles to each other learning and maintaining skills with your weaker foot. Or if you do not have the opportunity to grab a friend you can always find a wall and practice passing the ball and receiving the ball with the wall. It's important when using the wall that you pick a consistent spot and try to hit it on a consistent basis. It's crucial that you learn not only to pass the ball along the ground with your weaker foot, but to learn to chip the ball and practice your long passes. It's crucial that you do not become a one footed player as this will make you predictable.

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