Soccer Tips?      

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Soccer Tips?      

Soccer Tips?              

Hey, I know a lot of you play soccer so I was wondering if anyone would like to share tips? I could use help with heading.

submitted by Grace♥, age 13, SC
(October 3, 2009 - 9:44 am)

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*raises hand* Heading? Um, make sure that you keep your eyes open, or you'll miss it half the time. It took me like a year to get the hang of that. It's gonna seem really scary at first, watching the ball zoom towards your head, but it will hurt a lot less than closing your eyes and breaking your nose :D. Also, make sure that you lean into it and jump towards it, otherwise it will just flop of your head and be all dead-ish. It will help your power a lot if you jump at it. Also, make sure that you hit it on the "triangle" of your forehead, otherwise it won't go where you want it to :D Hope this helps!

submitted by Koffee
(October 3, 2009 - 1:09 pm)

Heading.  Ick.  I hate it.  Koffee has got it right. I'm just scared to do it.  I actually have done it quite a few times during games, but those kinda just hit my head and bounced off :)  But you must be careful because heading CAN cause a concussion!!  

submitted by R~D~ , age 13
(October 6, 2009 - 8:32 pm)

Yeah that's the thing that scares me! Hehehe. Thanks Koffee, good advice! :) Well, I used to head it .... then I got glasses. End of story. No, haha I got contacts now so I feal like I've got to get back to it! But I don't like going through it again. Sigh. :)

submitted by Grace♥, age 13, SC
(October 7, 2009 - 3:29 pm)

Koffee pretty much said it all for heading! Whenever my soccer team is ahead by more than five goals, our coach tells us that we're not allowed to shoot with our feet and that we have to head the ball into the goal. Although so far nobody's actually scored a header goal. :/  

submitted by Maddy, age 15, OR
(October 7, 2009 - 3:06 pm)

Update: Our team finally scored two header goals IN THE SAME GAME! Everybody was pretty happy.

submitted by Maddy, age 15, OR
(October 22, 2009 - 10:03 pm)

I love soccer.And also with the tips if you get the ball just keep running and shot.I got running with the ball when a really tall girl was there and I keept running and she wouldent move but I ran untill we knocked into eachother that was fun.

submitted by Rachel P, age 12, GA
(October 14, 2009 - 12:11 pm)