The Step-Over
One of the most eye catching dummy tricks in modern day football, although players from previous times have put this to practice ( such as Maradona, Pele, Carlos Alberto etc..), in the game today, almost every team has one or more players who can pull off this eye catching trick. This masterful trick is done to create two very important resources in the modern game, time and space. It is possible to sometimes send the defender in the opposite direction by pulling off this trick. Players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Robinho and for that matter Ronaldo ( when he was much lighter..) are one of the many who have this skill in their books and are sometimes very difficult to defend against when they pull it off. In our experience it is best to start practicing for this skills by practicing with an immobile ball on the ground moving your foot around or rather moving your foot over the ball ( either instep or outstep) as if you are about to push to one side instead you step over it. Then as you progress, start dribbling slowly and practice it, increasing speed as you get better. Movement of the body can also deceive a defender when performing the step over… and for the record, Robinho was actually booked once for performing too many step overs because the referee deemed it to be un-respectful, how bizarre..
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