Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Sole Stop

Foot on It

★☆☆☆☆ Age 6+ both feet Level 1 · Ball Mastery

You cannot do a trick until you can stop the ball dead. This is that skill.

Set it up like this. Ask a friend to roll the ball to you, or use a wall.

Study holds every step and names it. Flow runs them together at speed. Space bar plays and pauses; arrow keys step one frame.

  1. 1

    EYES UPWatch the ball come to you.

  2. 2

    SOLELift your foot and point your toes up a little.

  3. 3

    SOLEPut the bottom of your foot on top as it arrives.

  4. 4

    SOLEThe ball stops dead. Let your knee go soft.

The five pictures from the book

Ask a friend to roll the ball to you, or use a wall.

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1. Watch the ball come to you.
7 SOLE
2. Lift your foot and point your toes up a little.
7 SOLE
3. Put the bottom of your foot on top as it arrives.
7 SOLE
4. The ball stops dead. Let your knee go soft.

Where the ball actually goes

The strip shows you; this shows the ball. Every turn in this book is a shape on the grass.

The shape the ball draws

1 2 3 4 Seen from above · you start at the feet

The ball stays with you. This one is about touch, not travel.

Practise it — Wall stops

Pass to a wall and stop it 20 times

Coach says

Meet the ball. Do not stamp on it.

Watch out

  • Stamping, so the ball squirts out.
  • Being too late, so the ball goes under your foot.

Parts of the boot you use

SOLE