Best attribute for a soccer player?

"to me, it's all about touch, especially first touch"..........i'd agree with this, if you dont have a good touch you dont have control of the ball, without control of the ball you dont have the ball, if you dont have the ball you may aswell be playing another game no matter how quick, strong, creative or willing you are!

 

Long flowing locks

 

try-ness to the max-ness

 

I'd say my best one is speed, which is hilarious because, being a wind defender, I seldom need it...

 

I think its ball control.If you can keep the ball near your feet its not easy to get you off the ball

 

speed is so crucial. some players with speed don't use it because they're lazy and i think thats pathetic, but those who have it and utilize it can score great goals and get back and get in front of an offensive attack against their team and stop that play from happening.

 

Up until recently I've just relied on my speed. Now I know that speed alone doesn't make you good. Most of the time I have been playing soccer I would just get the ball and run as fast as I could towards the goal. When you get older ( around U15 maybe) pure speed isn't nearly as effective because defenders know what to do. A year ago I was getting frustrated because when I would get the ball and turn there would be a bunch of defenders just standning 10 yards back waiting for me to run straight at them (and because I sucked I would run straight into them).

Speed will carry you for a while, but eventually everyone's skills will get better than yours then you realize you need to start actually working at soccer.


When I played like that I basically had no soccer skills or ball control. Just recently I have been working really hard on my touch and skill and in the past three weeks I've improved more than I have probably in the past two seasons. When you get good skills then speed becomes very useful because you can make a move on a defender and then accelerate past them.

I think skill and ball control would be most important along with attitude. If you know how to dribble and keep your body between an opponent and the ball they can't get it no matter how fast or athletic they are. Also, I know people who could be really good at soccer and play at a very high level, but they won't because of their attitudes.

 

In a game, id say hustle, while training, definatly attitude.

 

Confidence

 

Ill add a basic list:

(no matter how good your skills, you have to have these to be good

Speed
Intensity
Attitude
Confidence
Uh..."Long Flowing locks"...

 

willingness to improve, and some damn strong knees and ankles!

 

1) good health
2) Speeeeeed and accelleration baby (oh ya..it helps a lot you can make up for tactical, and technical errors a lot easier)

 

I think attitude, if that can be considered as one

I remember reading in Keane's BIO one of his coaches when he was young or something said:

"Take the field with the wrong attitude and no matter how much ability you possess, you'll lose."

I remember also talking to Johnny Warren when he appeared as a guest for like a school dinner or something and I asked him what it takes to become a professional footballer and he told me the right attitude.

So theres something a little diff than the usual attributes

 

I would think work ethic should be in this discussion.

 

Man you brought this thread from the dead. But I agree with you. I look for players with a good first touch, field vision, speed off the first step, quick in a small space and besides all that a guy with the will of a winner. As a coach you want to surround yourself with a team of winners. Who want to win, who have won, who expect to win and will do whatever it takes to win.

 

big balls

 

For me, it has to be skill. If you have speed/strength, and no skill, you are just an athlete
If you have soccer IQ, and no skill, you will be ok, but against good competition, you will be crap
So, first and foremost, it has to be skill above everything else.

 

The most important attribute for me is the technical and creativity combinated together, the players with these features could win the balanced matches and they do the happiness for all the coaches

 

clearly it is whoever can kick the ball the furthest. if you can't kick the ball far how will you ever get the ball to your offense, and if the offense can't get the ball how can they score. also, if you can't kick the ball far why do you need speed to go chase it down? and... if you can kick the ball far who needs first touch or soccer intelligence, because once you kick it your striker just needs to chase it down.

 

Her eyes without a doubt

 

So many, but cleverness and creativity are key. You must be able to out smart your opponent. But who can say what the best is? Without all of the other attributes being clever wouldn't matter as much.

 

I think they're all important. You're not complete if you don't have either one of them.

 

Uhh impossible to just choose one thing. If I had to single something out, then spatial awareness. I've seen people with good technical qualities and raw physical attributes, that look hopeless on a pitch because they don't know how to use what's around them. They either rush everything they do with a kind of tunnel vision, or are too indecisive and quickly waste the options available to them. I mean they aren't bad technically, they can control the ball, pass it, turn pretty well, but just hopeless nevertheless.