:lol: i reckon. i used to watch him dribble in disbelief - at no time did he look like he had a handle on the ball, nor an idea of where he wanted to go, but still ran through the opposition so easily.

Some British wingers in days gone by, like John Aston, who played in Manchester United's 1968 European Cup winning side, used to "dribble" like that as well. No close control atall, but just pushed the ball forward and went like a bat out of hell:lol:

I'm just going to bump this.

Unfortunately some of the videos have disappeared, including Iniesta's La Croqueta move. I was hoping to show Krones.

A technical dribbler is ADP.

He has little speed now, but combines so many dribbling techniques so fluently.

Does this mean that the National Curriculum does not include any specific maneouvres designed for 1 vs 1 situations?

Does he still practise the more complex manoeuvres? If he doesn't practise them, those skills will dry up between the age of 14 and as he gets older. It's sort of true that often the more simple feints are the most effective, and obviously at the highest level you get guys like Lionel Messi, who rely on such things. But the thing is that the way football is going, a heck of a lot of players use things like step-overs and really sharp turns. Even if you don't use them that much in game situations, if you practise them and occasionally throw one in in a game situation, it's enormously beneficial. I tend to think that unless a player has the speed and close control of Messi, Robben, Hazard or Henry, the simple stuff won't suffice at the highest level. It sounds like a contradiction in terms to say that less capable players than Messi need to rely upon more complex maneouvres than Messi, but I feel it is the case.

Step-overs can be mightily hard to do at speed. A lot of people can do them standing still or they do them with their feet coming too far off the ground. It's rather difficult to do them, while running at +80% pace and keeping your feet close to the ball and on the ground.

It doesn't seem like many people in the A-League have such skills and as a result, our strikers are fairly average. I suppose it's not just that they lack the complex manoeuvres, they also lack the speed combined with the close control. But I reckon our strikers would do a lot better overseas if they had better ball control and could use 1 vs 1 maneouvres as they pleased.

From my understanding, no. But I could be wrong. I haven't read the various updates.

I have been under the tutelage of one of the national FFA Skills Acquisition Program
curriculum writers. He has coached his SAP players to do shoulder feints and other specific 1v1 attacking moves though. I've also imparted these as well as innumerable others, but I'm not sure what should be the norm.

Hi decentric, I've had a look around and apparently your coaching career has been in charge of an underage girls team in Tassie? is that correct?

:lol:

Obviously, you don't know stakeholders involved with Football Fed Tas, NPL clubs, country clubs, junior associations and migrant associations in Tasmania.