5D Kyle Soccer Moves and Tricks

The lunge is a very versatile move that works standing still or at a dead run. Start dribbling the ball forwards then abruptly lunge (take a long deep step) with your left foot, to the left of the ball. Plant your left foot hard and take the ball back to the right with the outside of the right foot, on the diagonal. Accelerate. or as I like to phrase it - FAKE and FLY!

(In soccer, players often try to "fake" a move to throw off a competing player, pretending they're about to kick the ball to the left, for example, while actually planning on kicking it to the right.)

Photo Credit Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images To achieve expert proficiency in any task, you need to invest 10,000 hours in practice, essayist Malcolm Gladwell writes in the book "Outliers." This advice applies especially to soccer. In soccer titan Brazil, for example, a child can often can dribble at age 3 and play informal pickup games by 7, even sleeping with the ball at night. Even if you can't drop everything to practice soccer for hours a day for many years, each minute you devote to the game builds skills a little at a time for ultimately noticeable gains.