Every football skill,
drawn step by step.
One hundred skills, from your first toe tap to the rainbow flick. Each one shows the exact part of your boot that touches the ball — and you can watch it move, slowly or at full speed.
Level 1 · Ball Mastery
These are the first twenty. They teach your feet where the ball is, so you can stop looking down. Do them in your garden, in the hall, anywhere.
Toe Taps
Sole Rolls
Foundations
Inside Push Dribble
Outside Push Dribble
Laces Speed Dribble
Pull-Push
V-Pull
L-Drag
Single Rollover
Double Rollover
Triangle
Figure Eight
Sole Stop
Toe Roll
Inside-Outside Zig-Zag
Rolling Dribble
Stop-Start
Two-Footed Roll Switch
First-Touch Wall Pass
Level 2 · Turns
A turn gets you out of trouble. Someone is close, there is nowhere to go, so you take the ball the other way. Learn these twenty and you will never be stuck again.
Inside Hook
Outside Hook
Drag Back
Sole Roll Turn
Cruyff Turn
Stop Turn
Step-On Turn
Inside Chop
Outside Chop
Puskás V-Turn
Marseille Turn
McGeady Spin
Berbatov Spin
Back-Heel Turn
Shoulder-Drop Turn
Beardsley Shimmy
Half-Turn Receive
Turn and Shield
Kroos Shuffle
Bergkamp Turn
Level 3 · Beat the Defender
Now there is someone in your way. Every skill here is a lie you tell with your body. Make them believe it, then go the other way. The trick is never the hard part — leaving fast is.
Body Feint and Burst
Step-Over
Reverse Step-Over
Double Step-Over
Scissors
Double Scissors
Matthews Cut
La Croqueta
Ronaldo Chop
Fake Shot and Cut
Fake Pass and Go
Knock and Run
Nutmeg
Rolling Nutmeg
Drag and Drop
Big-Small Touch
Shield, Spin and Burst
Inside-Outside Beat
Fake Cross, Cut Inside
Cut Behind the Standing Leg
Hesitation
Shimmy Hop
Ride the Contact
Give and Go
Fake Turn, Go Again
Level 4 · Signature Moves
These are the ones with names. A player did each of them so well that everyone started calling it after him. They are hard. Learn them slowly, in your garden, before you try them in a game.
Elastico
Reverse Elastico
Elastico Chop
Okocha Combo
Sombrero Flick
Rainbow Flick
Neymar Rainbow
Seal Dribble
Rabona
Trivela
Cuauhteminha
Garrincha Feint
Robben Cut Inside
Denílson Step-Over Chain
Bolasie Flick
Mahrez Fake Shot
Double Croqueta
La Pulga
Push and Burst
Back-Heel Flick
Level 5 · Freestyle and Show
None of these will win you a game. They will make you better at every skill in the other four chapters, because they all teach the same thing: a soft touch. Do them anywhere, on your own, for fun.