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We wanted to find out how people came to play soccer - how and why you became hooked on it. Was it because your older brother or sister played? Or is it part 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: to those players who are seeking that extra edge or the straight facts about becoming a great soccer 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 become smashed and 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. Steal and copy everything the best players are doing.

Playing soccer should be a freeing experience, and not necessarily surrounded all the time with coaching. This is a somewhat debatable idea, 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. Take Lionel Messi, did he learn to dribble like that from a coach? Don't think so, he learned by dribbling on his own when he was very young. He probably loved to cut and dribble past people.

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.

And this is where our website comes in, we want to add to your effort to become a great player. We hope to act like a mentor and support system in your efforts to become a skillful and smart soccer player. Hopefully help you reach your dreams and achieve your goals as a soccer player. Whether that's eventually playing soccer at the college level or pro level.

At SoccerTrainingInfo.com we will talk about the need to play one and two touch - at a high level you don't have time to hold on to the ball. However, at the same time, often the greatest skill in soccer is the ability to take on players on. To dribble right at a defender, and cut by defenders, but this has a place or even a 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 dribbling run against England in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico: where one of the greatest players of all makes 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. The game is about trying 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. One often had to resort to watching videos or even reading books about the game - where they spell out the moves on the pages.

As a player, 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.

The Internet and the growth of soccer across the world and in the United States has given young players today a ton of soccer resources online, we just hope to be one you come back to again and again.

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