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    Football skills

    I play football once a week with some mates. Nothing serious, but I'm getting annoyed with my lack of basic skills. I never played as a child and am so bad it's embarrassing.
    I know practice is key, but I was wondering are there any sites which might have some real basics - the kind of thing you'd teach an 8-year-old, like where to stand when marking someone, what to look at (ball/player) when in goal, how to avoid missing the ball altogether when you try to collect a pass (yes really!)...

    Help me
    Originally posted by MaryPoppins
    I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
    Originally posted by vetran
    Urine is quite nourishing

    #2
    No, the internet has no information like this.

    It's just used for p0rn and email

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      #3
      Is there a local amateur team you could join?

      Just up the road from me are playing fields. Every Wednesday evening about 80 boys and men do football practice. It seems to consist of suppleness exercises, ball control, dribbling, shooting accuracy and other purely-football related exercises.

      It's an impressive setup they have with 200 footballs out at once and the mini nets and all sorts of equipment.

      The people range from about 6 years old to 50s. The skills seem to range from damned good to a bit crap.

      I was tempted myself: it appears to be non-competitive.


      Edit: Who am I kidding? Tempted? Fat chance. I get exhausted listening to them.
      Last edited by RichardCranium; 16 August 2009, 11:01.
      My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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        #4
        Originally posted by d000hg View Post
        I play football once a week with some mates. Nothing serious, but I'm getting annoyed with my lack of basic skills. I never played as a child and am so bad it's embarrassing.
        I know practice is key, but I was wondering are there any sites which might have some real basics - the kind of thing you'd teach an 8-year-old, like where to stand when marking someone, what to look at (ball/player) when in goal, how to avoid missing the ball altogether when you try to collect a pass (yes really!)...

        Help me
        Please provide some video footage of your ineptitude on the football pitch in order that we can tailor advice accordingly.

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          #5
          Originally posted by d000hg View Post
          I play football once a week with some mates. Nothing serious, but I'm getting annoyed with my lack of basic skills. I never played as a child and am so bad it's embarrassing.
          I know practice is key, but I was wondering are there any sites which might have some real basics - the kind of thing you'd teach an 8-year-old, like where to stand when marking someone, what to look at (ball/player) when in goal, how to avoid missing the ball altogether when you try to collect a pass (yes really!)...

          Help me
          You are Stuart Pearce and I claim my 5 penalty kicks.

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            #6
            What are you like in goal? Perhaps you should try that instead.
            The cycle of life: born > learn > work > learn > dead.

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              #7
              Or leave your specs at home and be ref!
              My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                #8
                Originally posted by chris79 View Post
                What are you like in goal? Perhaps you should try that instead.
                Worse, if anything. The idea of trying to get in the way of something coming towards be fast seems counter-intuitive.

                Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
                Is there a local amateur team you could join?
                No time. Right now, I'd just like to know a little bit what I am supposed to try and do, so I can make an effort to improve. Try as I might, when we play it never seems to get better. I'll try to collect a pass and manage to lift my foot over the ball... every time I try and take the ball past someone I invariably kick it straight into their feet, but when trying to tackle I don't even see the ball move before it's through my legs.

                I am the archetypal geek who used to spend school football/rugby lessons freezing in the corner of the pitch in stupid shorts, hoping the ball wouldn't come near me. I'm not hopelessly unathletic but I simply didn't play any sport as a child and lack the basic skills... now as an adult I find most sports quite fun and I'm ok generally, but the average standard in the UK is relatively good because everyone played as a kid and has these basic skills of how to kick/receive a ball, etc.
                Last edited by d000hg; 16 August 2009, 13:44.
                Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                Originally posted by vetran
                Urine is quite nourishing

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                  #9
                  I used to play all the time as a kid, and was ok at football. I still play, (32) and am fat and useless by my lofty standards. You never lose your first touch though, so sometimes there is the odd fash of the old SY01.

                  Do you have any kids/nephews? They could teach you the basics? Or ask some of the team you play with to drill you in the basics. They should be willing, and anyone wanting to raise their game should be commended imvho.

                  Try and relax on the pitch.
                  Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                    Try and relax on the pitch.
                    Good point. I view our Sunday kick-about with ambivalence, it's good exercise and I try to get into a positive frame of mind before-hand. I spend the first few minutes optimistically trying to get stuck in, but then it doesn't work and a)people stop passing the ball to me (not in a nasty way, I understandably just become the last resort to pass to) & b) I start to feel embarrassed and stop trying to get the ball since I know I'll stuff it up every time.
                    Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                    I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                    Originally posted by vetran
                    Urine is quite nourishing

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