Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Drag and Drop

Drag Across

★★★☆☆ Age 8+ both feet Level 3 · Beat the Defender

You drag the ball right across your body. They follow it, and now they are on the wrong side of you.

Study holds every step and names it. Flow runs them together at speed. Space bar plays and pauses; arrow keys step one frame.

  1. 1

    SOLEPut your sole on the ball.

  2. 2

    SOLEDrag it a long way across your body.

  3. 3

    SPLITThey lean that way. You are already going the other way.

  4. 4

    INSIDETake it away with the inside of your other foot.

The five pictures from the book

Someone in front of you, feet apart, ready.

7 SOLE
1. Put your sole on the ball.
7 SOLE
2. Drag it a long way across your body.
7
3. They lean that way. You are already going the other way.
7 INSIDE
4. Take it away with the inside of your other foot.

Practise it — Drag past

10 goes past a friend, each way.

Coach says

Drag it far enough to move them.

Watch out

  • A small drag that moves nobody.
  • Dragging it out where they can reach it.

Parts of the boot you use

SOLE
INSIDE