[soccer711k]

I went to a camp this summer at Duke and a lot of the guys there could do some cool tricks or moves. I was wondering what other soccer players liked to pull on a defender. If you don't mind tell how you do the move.

Thanks,
Chris

[NC_ODP02]

I like doing a lotta stepovers...variations of stepovers(adding something too it)....but just changing direction or faking in a direction works the best for me......

Are you from NC? If so, do you play club? J/W because I live in NC(near charlotte)...I attended Davidson camp tho...there were some alright players there. I was probably one of the best my age though(not cocky, just confidence)....the players in the College Development group(scouts look at them)......they were pretty awesome....

[soccer711k]

I live in AL but my dad lives in Fayetteville, NC.

[terrywilson]

When you are dribbling against a defender, I always will give a couple of moves to put him off balance and then blow by him. At upper levels you have to read his body motion and see if he is off balance just by a little bit, and then hit a move on him, making it impossible for him to recover. My other favorite move on the flanks is to take go at them fake inside then play the ball around him on the outside and run inside.

[hambone]

terry...i HATE when people do that move to me it is so hard to defend against!!!

a move that i just sort of learned is you pretend to go to one side by rolling ur foot over the ball then when your foot ends up in front of the ball you tap it forward and to the opposite side a bit using your back foot. I think it will work pretty well.

also....an awesome move once you learn it is you step over a couple times as you come up to the defender then you hit it with the outside of your foot and very quickly you hit it back the other way with the inside of the same foot. Then you blow by them with the outside of the opposite foot.

Another move is you just tap it with the inside of your foot throw your whole body the way the ball is going then quickly change direction and take it with the outside of your foot, blowing by the defender or just to his side to get off a quick shot.

Plus, there is a move where you are running forward then you put your foot on the ball like you're gonna roll your foot over, but then you use the heel of your foot to keep the ball rolling over. It looks so awesome and confusing when you do it combined with something like a stepover, or you pull the first move that i said on them once then do this one.

[Hazardinho]

defintely the best move is the fake kick. there are so many variations...

[JMMUSA8]

a good move is performed better with blazing speed. Nothing like faking one way and going the other way while you leave the defender in the dust. Personally, there is a move called the Cruyff Turn, where you fake the shot and slip the ball in back of your plant leg with your other foot.

[NC_ODP02]

yea, the Cryuff turn works awesome on the endline(faking a cross) or in the box.......good way to open up the defense

[schmuckatelli]

An old favorite: the Matthews move, named after Sir Stanley Matthews, one of the greatest dribblers of his era. Take a lunging step with one foot in that direction (even throw out a hand in that direction), then take the ball away with the outside of the opposite foot. Work on really "selling" the fake.

[nopheer]

not the best way, but probably the most impressive to look at is to roll your foot over the ball left then right then left then right, etc. other variations (harder) is to just move the ball between your two feet at random very quickly (difficult to describe).. Each mothed would completely send the defender off balance.. but there are obviously easier moves with near enough the same effect.