Hey guys.
This is Matt again from Epic Soccer Training.
I kind of want to take you through basically
one of the things that I enjoy the most which
is soccer moves and kind of teach you the
ins and outs of how to make them better.
I think most people especially in practice,
they're not really taught to utilize moves
as well because they're just taught to just
do the move and that's it but really when
you think of soccer moves, you have to think
of in terms – it's kind of like acting because
you're selling a move.
You're selling what's called feinting which
is moving one way and then exploding the other
way.
So, one of the first moves that I kind of
want to teach you is basically a beginner
move.
I want to explain one that's kind of a beginner,
one that's an intermediate and then one that's
more of an advanced, intermediate-advanced
I guess.
So, the first one is basic inside-outside
cuts.
So again a cut is just a simple touch across
the body and you want to be working on both
feet.
Having great coaches growing up, I was blessed
to have to work on my right foot as well even
though I'm a lefty and many of you are probably
righties.
So again, you want to be able to work on both
legs as well.
So one of the first ones is just going to
be – let's just work on the inside cut and
so where you're kind of going across the body
and it's a quick chop.
A lot of people call it chops as well.
So again, you're not kind of – this is one
of those moves you don't need to sell as much
because you don't want it to look like you're
coming across the body.
You just kind of want to be up and then cut
real quick and then again you just work your
way down the field doing that and then also
when you're doing these cuts, then start working
your way to doing outside chops as well and
the outside chop is the same thing.
It's just turning and again you want to have
kind of this 90-degree angle.
So if you're going this way, just cut it quick
across his body and it's done so quickly where
the defender doesn't really have time to jump
out forward or if they do, you already passed
a move because it doesn't take a whole lot
of time before you're just doing a quick cut.
So again, work on that one and also work on
kind of game speed.
You're turning real quick and you're exploding
out of it.
It's giving you space from the defender.
So the next move I want to take you on is
called the Cruyff which was coined by Johan
Cruyff of the Netherlands who was actually
voted – he played from the 60s to the 80s
but he was voted European Player of the Century
and I think it was 1999 but he has this move
and it's basically a fake shot and it gets
you open.
So you can use this a lot of times in the
midfield as well.
I mean really anybody can use it but I played
mainly like center mid offense attacking players
so I use this move all the time and especially
if you want to get the ball to your dominant
foot.
So basically the Cruyff is a fake shot so
what you do is you plant your foot – just
like you're shooting but you plant it ahead
of the ball so again so you can see it this
way.
If the goal is over here and I'm looking to
take a shot, you're planting ahead and then
rolling the ball behind your leg and really
you're just rolling the ball with just the
very – pretty much your toes, just the ball
of your foot and you're doing it really quick
and then touch it out or you can kick it harder
and be open for a shot.
But again if you're doing it from the right
side as well – I will go here.
You're planting ahead and you're just lightly
touching the ball behind your leg and then
you're going and you can take another shot
which is something that's really great to
get open as well.
So again really work on that one and really
work on selling it.
Get your arms involved and really look like
you're taking a shot because ultimately what
you want to do with this move as opposed to
the chop is you want to get the defender to
jump because when he's jumping this far, he's
going to have to shift his whole body weight,
take a couple of steps before he can reach
out again and again, you can actually kind
of toy around with defenders too because you
can fake a shot.
He'll run and then kind of wait and then fake
another one as well and he's flying all over
the place and you look a lot better.
So again, do that one.
That's the Cruyff so really work on that one.
Again, it's just a simple plant.
Touch the ball behind the leg.
Touch it out and that's when you can take
your next shot or drive a long ball across
the field to your open player or something
like that.
The next move is kind of – it's a stacked
move and a stacked move is kind of where you
build a couple of moves on each other.
It's more of an intermediate-advanced move.
You're learning a lot of these.
Like scissors is one of the best moves that
you can do because it's pretty simple.
It looks cool.
It's where you just step over the ball and
touch it with your opposite foot.
So again, here, I will show you this one as
well but you're going.
You're stepping over, over the top of the
ball.
You're planting your foot so that you can
take the ball away and again, you can stack
this one as well and you can make it go pretty
quick.
You can do a double scissors, a triple scissors.
If you see a lot of Brazilian players, that's
something they do and then they explode out
of that.
One of the ones that I actually really like
is not doing scissors over and over again.
I like players that have to just make a decision
to go one way or the other.
So what I like doing is I like going and then
I cut behind the ball.
So it looks like I'm doing a scissors because
most people are actually used to that.
So you go around the ball and then it's just
a fake behind so looks like you're going like
this.
Again, fake and then you take it with the
same foot you started the scissors with.
So I will kind of show you this again, if
I'm going this way, and again, it works really,
really quickly but it gets defenders on their
heels especially when they're trying to figure
out where you're going and you're going at
them pretty fast.
So work on that one again.
I will show you sideways.
The ball is going this way.
I would take my foot around, left foot around
and then I would just fake and plant with
my other foot and then just take it with my
left and again, if I was going this way, for
the right-footed people, it's like that and
then I take it around and again, if you're
moving forward, you're not going to go straight
sideways.
You're going to go more diagonal and get around
the defender really quickly.
So again, that's like a single scissors, like
stacked move that I want you to work on as
well.
Again work on both feet because that's important
and you want to be able to have your left
foot as good as your right and your right
foot as good as your left.
So again, you can watch a video below as well
where I explain kind of how I took my skills
from being an average player to playing college
soccer on scholarships and playing professionally
as well.
So you can click that link below or visit
EpicSoccerTraining.com.
Also I'm going to be putting out a lot more
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I'm here to help you guys so not only do I
want you to kind of click the link below to
see some tips but I want to help you out.
So if you have any questions on moves or am
I doing this right, definitely leave a comment.
I will come by and personally answer them.
So I will see you guys in the next video and
I hope you liked it.
