Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Big-Small Touch

Long-Short

★★☆☆☆ Age 7+ both feet Level 3 · Beat the Defender

One big touch makes them turn and run. Then a tiny touch stops, and they cannot.

Set it up like this. Space in front of you, someone running back at your side.

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

    BIGPush the ball a long way forward.

  2. 2

    SMALLNow take a tiny one and slow right down.

  3. 3

    HE OVERRUNSThey keep running. They cannot stop.

  4. 4

    OUTSIDETake it the other way with your little-toe edge.

The five pictures from the book

Space in front of you, someone running back at your side.

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1. Push the ball a long way forward.
7
2. Now take a tiny one and slow right down.
7
3. They keep running. They cannot stop.
7 OUTSIDE
4. Take it the other way with your little-toe edge.

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

Straight up the pitch, small touches.

Practise it — Long-short

Dribble 20 metres. 3 long-shorts on the way.

Coach says

Long, then short. Change the speed, not the way.

Watch out

  • Both touches the same size.
  • Not slowing down enough on the small one.

Parts of the boot you use

OUTSIDE