Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Around the World

ATW

★★★★☆ Age 9+ both feet Level 5 · Freestyle and Show

Your foot draws a full circle round the ball in the air. It is the first proper freestyle trick.

Set it up like this. You need to juggle 10 times in a row before you try this.

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

    LACESPop the ball up off your laces.

  2. 2

    CIRCLESwing that same foot in a circle around the ball.

  3. 3

    AROUNDGo all the way round. Do not stop halfway.

  4. 4

    CATCHCatch it on the same laces.

The five pictures from the book

You need to juggle 10 times in a row before you try this.

7 LACES
1. Pop the ball up off your laces.
7
2. Swing that same foot in a circle around the ball.
7
3. Go all the way round. Do not stop halfway.
7
4. Catch it on the same laces.

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 — One clean circle

20 goes. One clean circle is a win.

Coach says

Pop it high enough to give your foot time.

Watch out

  • Popping it too low, so there is no time to circle.
  • Half a circle, then a panic.

Parts of the boot you use

LACES