How Do You Bend A Soccer Ball?
• Take your approach at an angle from the ball. As it is difficult to explain this, look at the picture. Generally, your body alignment will not be facing the goal. • Take a relaxed run up so you can bend the ball. Run along the red line. • Hit the ball with the inside of your foot, just where your toe ends and your foot begins. The ball will roll back along the inside of your foot. You should be hitting the ball in the bottom corner. This means that you look at a ball straight on as if it were a circle and imagine a cross (+) across it. You will strike the bottom left or right, depending on your run up and striking foot. • Do not move your plant foot. This foot should still be pointing down the original red line. Meanwhile, your kicking leg will swing in towards the goal after the ball is kicked. Try running and swinging your leg to try and kick with your opposite hip. Don’t bend your swinging leg and don’t be surprised if you can’t kick your opposite hip. Hit the ball from almost und
