Get your 5-a-side team ready!

Hey guys!
I was supposed to write about drill #5 today, but there was something exciting that happened recently I would like to speak about, that is The GAME by Ronaldo .

The GAME poster

If you haven heard of it, its a tournament, supposedly organized by Ronaldo. The tournament is like a platform for 5 a side matches to be organised locally and its completely free. In the tournament teams will face each other and play 5 a side games at different locations by their choice. Home or away, like an actual league.

The exciting bit is that the tournament has now begun in every town in the world and Round 1 has started.
I currently have a team entering the tournament. Since the tournament officially started today it is finishing May 1st 2014, at exactly 23:59 GMT. And the price of the Round 1 is going to be tickets to see Ronaldo play a match anywhere in the world for you and your team. 

The matches can be played indoors too

I think this tournament is going to be even more exciting if more teams enter it, so don't wait, just get your 5 a side team and register on here.  

There is a FAQ section on the website if you'd like to know more or you can just message me to ask personally on my email. 

Obviously since there is Round 1 there will be more rounds to compete in and a final round which will be held in Dubai. And to be honest the more ambitious teams will look forward to that final. 

I hope more people register, because a tournament like this is something new and exciting, it's an attempt to globalize football, the football everyone loves to play, from pros to fans, the football with your friends and it's not an easy task for the organisers and developers to keep it running, so I'm guessing it will need as many teams as possible to make the experience amazing.

Good luck, looking forward to seeing you in Dubai!

Agility+BallCTRL

Hey guys!
Firstly I've got an extension/challenge for Drill #2, which I posted on Tuesday, if you haven't seen it, link will be at the end of the post.

Extension:
The extension I thought of is simple, its doing the whole drill, but instead of dribbling you need to kick the ball up in the air and do kick ups throughout the whole course.
If you can throw in a trick or a skill.But that's about it, feel free to message me and we can compare our best times or comment on how you found it.

Eusebio juggling a football (1971) 

Secondly, I've prepared Drill #3!

Lavezzi, Lucas, Messi, Giovinco and Inui are one of the most agile players according to FIFA 14, I personally am not a massive fan of the game and I don't blindly believe in the players ratings, but one thing is indisputable, that agility is important in football.

So the drill I picked for today is to an extend similar to the Arrowhead test with football, which Ronaldo performs here. It is similar, in a way, because it has the same turns and high speed involved as in the arrowhead  agility drill.

Drill#3

This drill is really simple and needs to be performed 3 to 5 sets if you want to improve your agility while on the ball.

You can use any markers as cones as I said in the last post I blogged, so you don't need to worry about that. You would need 5 cones, but you are welcome to add more if you don't feel like its good enough, but I ensure you the drill is hard enough with only 5 cones.Set up the 4 peripheral cones 3m apart from each other.

Stage 1: You start from any cone at stage one and you need to be with the ball throughout the whole time.The first thing you do is dribble to the central cone and turn as quick as possible back to the cone you started off from.

Stage 2: After you have finished with the first cone you need to dribble to the next cone, try and throw in a trick, while keeping a full speed on, this replicates more of the real game.

You need to repeat stage 1 and 2 until you end up at the cone you started from, that's one set complete.
Good luck with the drill and don't put anything less then 100% !

Marco Reus is know to be a skilful and agile player at the same time.

Difficulty level: 8/10


I will post again tomorrow, oh and here are the links to the previous drills:

Drill#1
Drill#2

''I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'' 

-Muhammad Ali 

Dribbling drill #1

Messi, Ronaldo, Bale, Suarez, Neymar, Hazard and many more footballers... what's in common in between them is dribbling, Messi has dribbled past almost twice as many players for the last 5 years then anyone else in La Liga, Hazard has the most successful dribbles for this season in the EPL and Suarez has the most attempted dribbles for last year's EPL season. All key players... Now I'm not saying dribbling is the only aspect of the game helping them but from the statistics a clear image is arising, hence my article on dribbling today.

I'm going to discuss a few ways I'm planning to start training ball control and technique these days, I will assume you are training mostly alone, but I do have drills that require a partner.

For this week I have chosen 4 drills to do alone and 1 with a partner to work on your dribbling soon I am going to write on defending, shooting & scoring, passing & crossing and also fitness drills.

Bale dribbling in a game for Wales

Drill #1

-The basics,
I think this is not really a drill rather then a repetition of the basic moves in football, nevertheless it's a great way to get quicker feet, improve ball control and that combined with creativity can produce miracles.

It's really just a video of a guy showing you what moves to do, I think if you spend 30/40 min. two days a week doing this drill you will almost immediately see results. Don't bother about the speed you execute the drill at, just try to get it right for a start.

Difficulty level: 6/10

I'll leave you with this drill to practice, I'm going to post the next drill tomorrow! Don't forget to subscribe, thank you.

I leave you with this quote from Bruce Lee:

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."