Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Skills | Tags: beating defenders, Ronaldo, scissors move, Soccer Skills
Watching players like Manchester United’s Ronaldo make fools of defenders always has me out on the pitch trying it for myself.
When you are coaching young players it is the extra bits like showing them how to do moves that make them look like the professionals they see on TV that gets them hooked on soccer.
The scissors move is great and can be used by defenders, midfielders and of course attackers, to fool the opposition into thinking you are going one way when in fact you go another.
Watch this video it shows you how to do it, and you can show your players, it’s that simple!
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Skills | Tags: alex ferguson, central defender, Inter Milan, jose mourinho, Manchester United, vidic
Watching Manchester United play Inter Milan in the Champions League, it was interesting to note the player that gave Manchester a match winning start was the big central defender Nemanja Vidic.
Not only did he keep the Inter Milan attackers at bay but he went up for the corner, lost his markers and headed the ball into the corner of the net. When Inter Milan had a similar opportunity later in the half the attacking forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic missed.
Central defenders can cause chaos at corners. You need to get them to move around or time a run into the box so the corner taker can kick the ball into the area he is running into.
I love seeing my central defenders scoring because they do such a lot of hard work at the back, that it’s nice for them when they get the glory of scoring a goal.
Here’s Vidic’s goal that did so much for a Manchester Utd team to give them the edge over Inter Milan. Finishing is so important.
click here for the Vidic goal against Inter Milan
