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We wanted to find out how people came to play soccer - how and why you became hooked on it. Because your older brother or sister played? Or is it apart of your culture and all around you? Or is it because you played and fell in love with the game on your own? We would like to know how you became a soccer player and what tips and training methods set you on your path to success.

To begin with, we don't claim to know all, we just want to share our experience in the game and impart this knowledge to a range of players of all ages and levels of ability, those who want that extra edge or the straight facts about trying to become a great player.

Most often, a love for soccer begins with playing with your friends in the street, the park, or a make shift field. Often many garage doors dented and windows broken or living rooms transformed into soccer fields. Ideally, as a kid, you're fortunate enough to play in the park with older former professional players - if not seek out those older players who are playing all the time. That's the best way to learn.

Playing soccer should be a freeing experience, and not necessarily surrounded all the time with coaching. This is a somewhat debatable idea, or question, whether a kid, once having the right technique, should play and play without direction, in a way, somehow, to develop his own style rather than constantly being drilled to play one way. 

At a young age it seems it's best to just play and learn through playing and watching older talented players. Find a good mentor to look up to and learn from. This could be watching a player on TV or an older player that plays on a team near where you live. This is what we want to add to your effort to become a great player. We hope to act like a mentor and support and guide you in your efforts to become a skillful and smart soccer player. In the end, help you reach your dreams and achieve your goals as a soccer player. Whether that's eventually to the college level or pro level or a few tips that help you take with you to your weekend soccer games.

At SoccerTrainingInfo we will talk about the need to play one and two touch - at a high level you don't have time to dribble and make choices on the ball. However, at the same time, often the greatest skill in soccer is the ability to take on players on, dribble, and cut by defenders, but this has a place or even mood - if you're feeling good then go at players. We want to push players to play smart soccer but also play freely. Everyone probably remembers or has seen Diego Maradona's run against England in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. One of the greatest players of all, making an incredible run. 

By taking on players, you can set up other players, so they are in a position score, pass, or to take someone on themselves. But making a simple pass across the field can open up the whole game. For instance, you play the ball across the field to the wing where that player is one on one, and the other defenders don't have time to run over and support him. Try to find the player with the most time and space.

Again, there is that time when you pick up momentum and weave in and out and through a few defenders to score or make that goal scoring pass. Just pick and choose your times wisely.

Growing up in a a small town, with limited access to professional soccer, it was difficult to find good information on how to become a better player. Often watching videos or reading books - where they spell out the moves on the pages, I was always trying to find new tips, drills, or anything that would makes me a better player. That was the idea another reason behind creating this website, to give information to kids in those smaller towns and areas where they don't have as much access to live soccer games, videos, experienced coaches, quality camps, tournaments, drills, or former professional soccer players that can act like mentors. We want to help direct you to those resources and give you those kinds of tips.

If you have a tip or a drill, please submit your idea here: info @ internetmarker.com (remove the spaces when sending the email)