How To Take A Football Free Kick

Hi, my name is Matthew Dilworth. I am a Saturday Intermediate League goalkeeper and also run and manage my own Sunday league side, and today, I am going to take you for some football basics to help get you started. Okay, this is how to take a free kick in football.

And in this instance, we are going to look at taking a strike on goal if you are given a free kick on the edge of the penalty area in a really dangerous position. The idea is to try and hit the target and make the keeper work and get the ball over the top of the defensive wall. The idea here is to get a whip on the ball.

The ball would cover one side and the keeper would be on the other. So, if you can get the ball over the wall and into that corner, it is going to be increasingly difficult for the goalkeeper to make his save. You need to stay alongside of the ball as always, but this time, you need to try to get a bit of width, a bit of curve on the ball.

So, you need to be sort of striking the ball alongside the side of your big toe, and then following it through and properly try and wrap your foot around the ball. You need to be leaning back but not too far. If you lean back too far, the ball is going to go miles over the cross bar.

If you don't lean back enough, you are just going to hit it straight into the wall and miss your chance. So, it's a bad time to get everything just about right, to get the ball over the wall and into that corner, away from the goalkeeper. Okay, in this instance, from a similar sort of position, I am going to try and take a stroke on goal.

We are going to float the ball into the penalty area, so that all your team mates and attackers could run on, try to meet the ball and get the ball on target. You need to get a lot of elevation on this to beat either the defensive wall or float it up there. So, they have got something to run onto and challenge for.

So, get in your foot alongside of the ball but lean it back just short, almost like a sort of a think so that you can get a plenty of loft on the ball and there's something for them to run onto and they will try and get an attempt on target. Okay, in this instance, we are going to refer to probably the most common type of free kick you are going to find in a match situation. Anywhere around the defensive area or around the middle of the park, you probably just want to get the ball, get it back in play and you find yourself an easy pass.

This doesn't need anything more than just a strife foot, make sure it's accurate and what your play mates need. You can get play going, but they will be out right or just a short pass into your midfield part or defensive part to get the ball rolling again, just an easy strike foot or non-striking foot next to the ball and nice and easy pass through the ball. Nice and firm into their feet, to get the game going again. .