So what do you have to do to give your son (or you if you’re young enough) the best possible chance of becoming a professional footballer or professional soccer player? He has to, obviously have a talent for the game, an enjoyment of it and a desire to improve and do well but there are many other abilities he must develop, including technique, skill and the right attitude – which might not be what you think!

It has been attributed to different champion sportsmen but the dictum: “They say I’m lucky but you know what… the more I practise, the luckier I get,” highlights a simple truth. All ambitious sportspersons must practise but not any practice; they must be able to engage in what we have labelled with an acronym: PAPP = Proper Aimed Productive Practice. Take tennis for example; merely getting the ball back over the net at a decent pace won’t produce much improvement. Hitting through, and then dropping alternative shots with backspin, continually observing results and making appropriate adjustments, and doing that for hours every day – that’s PAPP: Proper Aimed Productive Practice.

Apply it to football/soccer. If your youngster wants to improve – hopefully to the extent of becoming a professional player – he will need to apply this principle. That’s where you, the parent ufabet ติดต่อ comes in. There are ways of setting up a practice and making it a fun game, but you need to get the technique part right and you need to keep him interested. If the technique is wrong then the youngster will practice to fail and won’t turn the exercise into skill that he can use. Take simple ball control with the foot. The part of the foot to use is that shaped to the nearest configuration of the ball – the inside, which is concave. Practise for as long as you like with the outside (convex), and the action will still prove susceptible to letting the player down in a game. Years ago we were taught to “trap” a ball coming from height by using the sole of the foot; this is now largely replaced by use of the front of the foot as a cushion. If, however, the bony top of the front of the foot is used this is flawed – the front of the toes is the correct part. The first bit of PAPP.

We’ll look at this again, but for those who doubt we’ll leave you with three anecdotal examples of obscure talent who did great things: Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, Alan Ball did not get into his high school team and Barbara Bla