While this page is dedicated to individual ball mastery skills, other activities can be found on the following pages.
FOUNDATION SKILLS
TSSA Skill Builder Part 1 with Desmond Armstrong
- TOE TAPS
Toe Taps – Alternating
Toe Taps – Alternate Foot with Movement (Pedaling)
- DRAG
Drag with bounce
Drag – Alternate foot with bounce
- PULL/ PUSH
Pull/ Push – side foot
Pull/ Push – single foot bounce
Pull/ Push – alternate foot bounce
Pull/ Push ‘V’
TSSA Skill Builder Part 2 with Desmond Armstrong
BALL ACUITY IN MOTION
- Toe Taps
- Drag
- Pull/ Push
- Dribbling at Speed
Fast Feet Beginner Soccer Drills
- Front Triangles – Right
- Front Triangles – Left
- Step-ons
- Outside – Inside (Right)
- Outside – Inside (Left)
- Rounders – Left
- Rounders – Right
- Baby V’s
- Outside – Outside
- Step-over (NO touch)
- Sole Roll
- Squeeze
How To Dribble Like Messi | Close Control Dribbling | Fundamental Dribbling Technique Tutorial
Tick Tock (Shuffle) – Soccer Dribbling Fundamentals
How to Coach and Develop your Players Ball Mastery Techniques
Home Soccer Training – Triangle Drill – Renegade Soccer Training
33 Soccer Drills in 3 Minutes – Renegade Soccer Training
Ball Control: Episode 1 – Diamond Drill
Ball Control: Episode 2 – Slalom Setup
Ball Control: Episode 3 – Zig Zag
Ball Control: Episode 4 – T Drill
9 Easy To-Do Drills You Can Do At Home | All Ages and Abilities
19 Soccer Drills You Can Do On Your Own
PULLBACK
PULLBACK
Sometimes called a ‘DRAG’ BACK, this move utilizes the sole (cleats) of the shoe to “drag” the ball back towards the new direction, in one swift pivoting motion. The “turn-away” pullback is slightly different from a ‘Cruyff’ in that it uses the sole of the foot to drag the ball backwards.
Key Point: Be sure to pivot with the ball as it is being ‘pulled back’… escape with pace!
The ‘Pull Back’ should not be used anywhere near one’s own penalty area or anywhere in the middle of the field where an alert defender could begin a dangerous breakaway.
HOW TO DO A PULL BACK AND GO
Tennessee State Soccer Assocation – Pull back
HOW TO DO A ROLL OVER
Sideways Sole Roll – Both Feet (Dribbling Activity #14)
Footwork Moves – Tennessee State Soccer Association
TOE TAPS
How to do Toe Taps
Toe Taps | Soccer Ball Touch / Control Drill | Improve your touch and technique
Soccer Drills For Kids | Ball Mastery |Toe Taps | U8 U9 U10 U11 U12
- Toe Taps (Regular)
- Round about
- Toe Rolls
- Brazilian Toe Taps (Dancing with the ball!)
MAESTRO: Day One | The Ultimate Ball Mastery Training Program
Toe Taps
Bell Taps (‘Box the ball’)
Inside Outside
Rocking Soles
Sole Rolls
Sole Inside Push
Brazilian Trap
THE STEP-OVER (HALF ZICO)
Lunge type move which involves a stepover like the scissors but in the opposite direction. Plant your left foot behind and to the left of the ball and swing your right foot around (or over) the ball in a counterclockwise arc, from the outside right around to the inside left. Then push off your still planted left foot to the right, and take the ball with the outside of your right foot. Accelerate!
Push ball forward, step over ball with one foot, turn toward ball and take it in the opposite direction.
STEP-OVER
HALF ZICO
Another slight variation is to take the ball back with the outside of the right foot instead of using it as a pivot foot. Here you fake the “stepover” as you turn counter-clockwise over the ball with the right foot, just as before. Then instead of planting that right foot, you just tap it down and then back up as you begin to pivot back clockwise still on the left foot. Then you take the ball with the outside of the right foot (the stepover foot) and move back in the new direction. Personally, I prefer this variation. We think it is quicker and a little easier to do the pivot with cleats on grass fields.
KEY POINTS: The move becomes effective when the “stepover” looks like a shot or pass or lunge in that direction. This “sells” the “FAKE” and then you take the ball quickly in the other direction.
Soccer Turn Move – “Half Zico” – statUP Test
HALF ZICO
Another slight variation is to take the ball back with the outside of the right foot instead of using it as a pivot foot. Here you fake the “stepover” as you turn counter-clockwise over the ball with the right foot, just as before. Then instead of planting that right foot, you just tap it down and then back up as you begin to pivot back clockwise still on the left foot. Then you take the ball with the outside of the right foot (the stepover foot) and move back in the new direction.
Personally, we prefer this variation. We think it is quicker and a little easier to do the pivot with cleats on grass fields.
KEY POINTS: The move becomes effective when the “stepover” looks like a shot or pass or lunge in that direction. This “sells” the “FAKE” and then you take the ball quickly in the other direction.
The move is named after Arthur Antunes Coimbra, better known as Zico, is a Brazilian coach and former footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder.
Half Zico
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FULL ZICO
ZICO/ STEP-OVER 180 TURNS start with the ball between your feet, as it is during your “in-betweens”. Put your weight on your left foot as you swing your right foot up and over the ball (turning counter-clockwise towards the left). Plant the right foot down on the left side of the ball and step down. (This is the “stepover” part of the move and will be used in lots of fakes and feints). Now using that right foot as a pivot, spin (turning clockwise this time) around with your left foot, back towards the ball. Once you have turned a 180, take the ball with your left foot and begin to move in the other direction.
Reverse Step Over | Tutorial
Arthur Antunes Coimbra (born 3 March 1953 in Rio de Janeiro), better known as Zico), is a Brazilian coach and former footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder. He was a creative playmaker, with excellent technical skills, vision, and an eye for goal, who is considered one of the most clinical finishers and best passers ever, as well as one of the greatest players of all time. Arguably the world’s best player of the late 1970s and early 80s, he is regarded as one of the best playmakers and free kick specialists in history, able to bend the ball in all directions. In 1999, Zico came eighth in the FIFA Player of the Century grand jury vote, and in 2004 was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world’s greatest living players. According to Pelé, considered one of the best players ever, “throughout the years, the one player that came closest to me was Zico”.
Zico – Brazil Best Midfield Ever
THE BACKWARDS ‘L’
The PULLBACK “L” or UNDERNEATH ‘L’ is the sister move to the “V” move.
Three-step move.
- Fake kick motion up onto the ball.
- Drag backwards with the sole (cleats) to prepare the ball for the tap underneath.
- Tap with the inside of that same foot that redirects the ball underneath the support leg and into the new direction.