Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Turn and Shield

Roll Away From Pressure

★★☆☆☆ Age 7+ both feet Level 2 · Turns

When you cannot turn, you keep the ball instead. Your body is a wall between them and the ball.

Set it up like this. Ball at your feet, someone right behind you.

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

    SINKBend your knees and get low and wide.

  2. 2

    ARMPut your arm out to feel where they are.

  3. 3

    SOLERoll the ball to your far foot with your sole.

  4. 4

    PASS OR GONow pass it, or turn out the other side.

The five pictures from the book

Ball at your feet, someone right behind you.

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1. Bend your knees and get low and wide.
7
2. Put your arm out to feel where they are.
7 SOLE
3. Roll the ball to your far foot with your sole.
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4. Now pass it, or turn out the other side.

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

Sideways only, the ball under your foot the whole way.

Practise it — Ten seconds

Keep the ball for 10 seconds with a friend behind you.

Coach says

Be wide. The ball goes on the far side.

Watch out

  • Standing tall and getting pushed off.
  • Keeping the ball on the side they can reach.

Parts of the boot you use

SOLE