Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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La Croqueta

The Croquette

★★★☆☆ Age 8+ both feet Level 3 · Beat the Defender

You slide the ball from one foot to the other, right under their reach. It is best when they are very close.

Set it up like this. Someone almost touching you, reaching in for the ball.

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

    WAITStand still. Let them come close and reach.

  2. 2

    INSIDEPush the ball across with the inside of your right foot.

  3. 3

    INSIDECatch it with the inside of your left and keep it moving.

  4. 4

    TEMPOBoth touches happen in one step.

  5. 5

    SPRINTNow go, past the side they reached from.

The five pictures from the book

Someone almost touching you, reaching in for the ball.

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1. Stand still. Let them come close and reach.
7 INSIDE
2. Push the ball across with the inside of your right foot.
7 INSIDE
3. Catch it with the inside of your left and keep it moving.
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4. Both touches happen in one step.
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5. Now go, past the side they reached from.

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

Out, in, out — two touches with one foot.

Practise it — Through the gate

Croqueta through a 1-step gate. 12 goes.

Coach says

Two touches, one step.

Watch out

  • Pausing between the two touches.
  • Doing it too early, before they reach.

Parts of the boot you use

INSIDE