There will be a whole lot of freestyle street soccer tricks to find on this website. I chose to incorporate more freestyle tricks than on the field tricks because, not only did I learn how to play soccer on the streets considering how Aruba doesn’t have grass or barely any turf soccer fields, but also because freestyle tricks can also be used on the soccer pitch during a game. Each trick will have a description, so you can learn the trick step by step. Also, there are short videos to every trick for the people who retain better information visually. Good luck practicing your new tricks!
Before we can start with the tricks, it is important to understand the different size soccer balls there are on the market because some people might need to use a different size; it all depends on the person’s preference.Today, soccer balls are hollow spherical object filled with air that’s usually made out of waterproof leather and plastic. Often soccer balls have the shape of a truncated icosahedron, which is a mathematical figure, but before the time of the truncated icosahedron soccer balls were made out of inflated a pig’s bladder heavy brown leather. There are also different sizes to soccer balls. The sizes of soccer balls range from 1-5; one being the smallest and 5 the largest. The size 5 soccer balls are regulation size for field soccer and size 4 for Futsal (indoor), but in freestyle or street soccer that isn’t the case.
For todays trick tutorials ill be teaching you three new tricks:
1) Ronaldinho Rainbow
2) Hocus Pocus
3) Issy Hitman Akka
For these tricks you can use any size ball (1-5) just make sure you pick the one you feel most comfortable with.
RONALDINHO RAINBOW
Step 1: Put the ball still on your preferred foot and move your leg from front to back
Step 2: At the moment the ball is behind your standing leg, lift the ball and let it go
Step 3: Rotate your leg under the ball and tap the ball over you with your heel
HOCUS POCUS
The Hocus Pocus is a kind of like the Akka (mentioned in my last post), but behind your non-preferred leg
Step 1: From a stationary position, put your non-preferred leg in front of the ball and put your other leg next to the soccer ball
Step 2: with the inside of your foot (front part of the shoe) let the ball pass behind your non-preferred leg
Step 3: while letting the ball roll behind your non-preferred leg kick the soccer ball (with the outside of your foot) forward
ISSY HITMAN AKKA
Step 1: with your preferred leg, roll the ball to you from in front of you
Step 2: Lift the ball up diagonally with the outside of your foot
Step 3: Tap the ball with the inside of your foot behind your opponent
Currently the best player in the world. Some believe, maybe even the universe.
Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini was born in Rosario, Argentina on June 24, 1987. Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for the Spanish team FC Barcelona.
The attacker has been playing for the same team FC Barcelona since 2004 and on February 2013, Lionel Messi extended his contract until the 2017/18 season.
Year
Goals
Games
2012
91
79
2013
45
47
2014
13
15
At the age of 5, Lionel Messi started playing football at his neighborhood club Grandoli that was led by his father. When he was 7 years old, he was allowed to enroll at Newell ‘s Old Boys (a local soccer team in Argentina) and then in the ‘cantera’, which is the youth team of FC Barcelona.
In the 2002/2003 season Lionel Messi together with Francesc Fàbregas, Gerard Pique, Marc Valiente and Víctor Vázquez formed the ‘Cadete A’ which was known as the Baby Dream Team. Via Barça C and the FC Barcelona B team, Messi worked his way to the top. While at the Barça B team, Lionel Messi scored 37 times in 21 games; that’s a pretty big deal in the soccer community especially.
World records Lionel Messi currently holds:
Record number of goals in one year: 91 (2012)
Record number of goals in one season: 73 (2011-12)
Record number of goals FIFA Club World Cup: 4
Record number of international goals in a year (club + national team): 25 (2012)
Record consecutive games scored in a league: 21 (2012-13)
Record in one season to score more than 50 goals. 4 (2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13)
Record that scores sequentially against all teams (19) from a league in one season (2012-13)
First player to score in one season in all competitions and gives an assist (2011-12): La Liga, Spanish Cup, CL, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup, World Club Teams
Before I get started on the tutorials, I want to talk a little about soccer. Soccer—or more commonly known as football in other parts of the world—is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal. The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in, but only in their penalty area. Outfield players mostly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may use their head or upper body to strike the ball instead. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout depending on the league or importance of the game like if it’s a final.
The duration of a match is two 45 minutes (plus any additional time, also called injury time, for a few minutes) in between there is a break of 15 minutes (halftime). If ninety minutes have passed and still shows a tie and a winner is needed, so an extension of two fifteen minutes halves are played. If after the extension there is still no winner, then there are penalties taken. Both teams take turns to take a penalty. The team that has scored the most after five penalty kicks is the winner. If there is a tie standing after five penalty kicks, then penalties will be taken until one team emerges with more penalty goals.
It is generally believed that the modern form of soccer originated in the UK, probably in England. We can assume England might be the country of origin for soccer because the oldest professional football club can be founded in England; Notts County FC. Because soccer became such a big sport in England, it started expanding internationally which formed the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in 1904 and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in 1954, the latter of which hosts the games to the Champions League and Europa League.
Currently, soccer is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world’s most popular sport.
My inspiration for this blog was my love of soccer. I’ve played soccer all my life and I was brought up in a household revolved around soccer. I initially wanted to start this site to provide soccer fans and soccer players with trick and shot tutorials that they can then further use in their soccer games or even just for fun! This site would be perfect for people that want to start learning soccer to the more skilled players that just want some help perfecting their skills. My name—if you don’t know already—is Robin. I’m currently 20 years young attending the University of Tampa. I was born and raised in Aruba, but I’m originally Dutch. Being from Aruba, I’ve been exposed to a lot of soccer through out the years. At one point I played in Jamaica every year for three years straight; this soccer tournament was originally started to bring some of the best soccer teams from different schools all around the Caribbean together to compete in a tournament. My position on the team was striker, but sometimes I would have the role of a ‘false nine’ which is just someone who falls back a little to get defenders off their line so set pieces can be created. I was also the captain of the team both on the school team and a club team. My main interest is soccer and it has been soccer for as long as I can remember.
The title of my blog is Soccer For Everyone because I decided that I shouldn’t just entertain the soccer community but everyone else too; I want everybody to be entertained. The title speaks for itself because this site really is made for everyone even people that aren’t into soccer and hopefully this site can also convert people to the love of soccer and have people understand that soccer is the best sport.
Soccer For Everyone 