What is the most Basic Soccer Skill?

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In this article I have summarized 6 basic soccer skills that are vital to know if you want to play soccer. Let’s start to take a look at the first one…

1. Passing - This is the most important soccer skill you need to know. Simply, if you don’t know how to pass the ball, then you will not either know how to play soccer. To learn how to pass a ball you will need only few minutes, but to become good on it you will need many hours of practice.

2. Receiving a ball – This is probably the second most important thing in soccer, after passing a ball. If you don’t know how to receive a ball, you don’t know either how to play soccer.

Every time you receive a pass from a teammate you need to know what to do with the ball. If it takes you 5 minute to get control on it then you can be pretty sure that your teammates will not either pass the ball so often to you

3. Trapping - This is the third important skill you need to know as soccer player. However, trapping a ball is not the same as receiving it. When receiving a ball you will generally be in movement and when trapping a ball you will often stand still.

4. Dribbling – If you don’t know how to dribble then chances of getting around your opponent are pretty small. Remember, dribbling is not the same as being able to perform cool tricks with the ball.

If you can’t use a trick in a real soccer game then ask yourself what is the point of practicing on it? Isn’t it better to use your time to improve some other soccer skill that you will be able to use in a real soccer match?

5. Shooting – If you want to score goals then you will also need to know how to shoot. If don’t, then scoring a goal will be pretty hard. However, shooting is not just about hitting the ball with enormous power. You will also need to hit the goal too and this takes us to the sixth most important basic soccer skill you need to know.

6. Precision – As I told you earlier in this article, passing the ball is the most important basic soccer skill you need to know. But what about precision? I mean, if your passes never find the right address then what is the point of passing the ball actually?