How do you become a professioal soccer player?
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i played soccer every time
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look, you need a professional to give you advice'cause he can measure your ability and skills.\nYou can be a professional as long as you full fill the requirements.\nEDIT: by a professional I meant a coach not a player.
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Know the right people in the right places and be an exceptional athlete. Have experience playing at least some type of competitive ball other than highschool.If you have a dream, never give up on it!
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you need to be playing for a club at a professional/semi professional level and qualify for team trials.
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Well first things first you need to be 20 years old. Secondly, you need to be playing in some sort of collegiate level league for 2 years. If not that, then a professional league...It's a lot tougher nowadays than it used to be.
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I believe you should go back to the basics.\nI can't really guide you a step by step\nbut hope this site will help (although i think its for beginners) but give it a try\nhttp://www.coachesinfo.com/category/soccer/105\nhope its help full
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Read the fifa website and familiarise yourself with the rules of the game.  I presume you are looking for help learning to play the game.  there are a few skills to learn, which would be helpful.  Best thing to do is find some friends who want to play, but if youre on your own...\n\nPassing:  learn to pass by kicking the ball against a wall.  Kicking the ball with the inside of your foot is best way.  Learn how much power you need to hit the ball.  After you have the hang of it, aim for certain targets on the wall, to improve accuracy.  Try passing the ball both on the ground and in the air against the wall.  Dont be scared to use both feet, and if one of them is better than the other, dont fret, this is normal.  Get someone to help and practice passing the ball further distances.\n\nShooting:  Much the same as passing, but with more power and accuracy required.  It would be good to have friend to go in goals for this, if you dont have goals, just use what you have (like a couple of jackets against the wall).  Hit with inside of foot, keep your head over the ball - the further back your body is when you hit a shot the more likely the ball is to go into the air.  Again, try to hit the ball with the inside of your foot for more accuracy.  \n\nHeading:  Again, get some help.  Get the friend to throw the ball to you and head it back in their direction.  If your friend is also learning, see how many times you can keep the ball in the air with heading it alone.  \n\nKeepie ups:  These may look like fun, but in fact help a lot\nto improve your overall control.  Keep the ball in the air by flicking it up with your foot, and see how many times you can keep it up using your feet, knees, chest and head.\n\nTackling: Can only really be practiced in a game.  When tackling, go for the ball, not the feet, and never tackle someone from directly behind.  Warning though:  sliding challenges should never be done on hard surfaces or plastic pitches unless you want a nasty gash on your leg.  My advice is just get stuck in!  Dont be scared to tackle.\n\nDribbling (running with the ball): set up cones in a line, if you dont have them use your imagination!  Run with the ball through and around these cones.   Better to learn in a game, you will pick up how people take the ball past others.  \n\nThe overall idea is to have fun.  Get some friends together and have a kickabout in the park.  You will learn far more from this than what i have detailed above.  Try searching yahoo for sites which give training techniques.  If you dont have anyone to play with, just take the ball and mess about with it, there is no better way to learn: i was never without one at my feet as a youngster!  Hope this helps :)
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My first suggestion would be to play all the time.  Just look at every successful sports star...they played all the time!  To be successful in America, fitness is a major part of the college soccer scene.  I would suggest asking for a fitness guide and make sure you pass all the fitness tests with flying colors at the start of preseason.  To go pro, especially to get drafted into the MLS, you need to stand out...so work your ass off until you are better than everyone else!  Play soccer, 1v1, 3v3, 11v11, whatever, all the time!
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Listen Kid, you need near enough 20 20 vision when your on the ball so you can see where your team mates are and how fast the opposition are coming at you. you also need eyes in the back of your head so you know when to release the ball if team mates are not communicating with you. Don't be greedy. Do everything basic don't try anythin too fancy cause if you fuck up you'll get annoyed start losin confidence in yourself and you'll start to have bad perfances! Always talk to your team mates. be heard on the pitch. don't get aggressive with opponents other players the ref etc..Don't take Cristiano Ronaldo as a role model because he tries too hard and messes up 99% of the time. My idol is Alan Shearer does everytin basic and is an outstandin performer. get some video's and watch him play as he is now hung his boots up!!
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Featured Links\n\nDiscover Advanced Soccer Tricks And Tactics...Free! \n\nFREE Soccer Conditioning & Fitness Course at TotalSoccerFitness.com\n \n\nPassing the Test - Soccer Passing Skills\n\nHaving learned the importance of strategy, one of the most critical skills to develop in applying it—as well as the backbone of teamwork in soccer—is passing. \n\nPassing allows your team to keep possession of the ball and find holes in the opposing team’s defense.  As a team, try to keep the ball moving and spread the defense, taking advantage of open spaces. The best way to accomplish this is to play one and two touch soccer. \n\nStrike the ball with pace so that your teammate doesn't have to wait on the ball.  A firm pass is more likely to arrive at its destination.  In terms of teamwork, the player who is the intended target of your pass must go to the ball.  At the same time though, make your teammate look good by digging out a bad pass and keep possession.\n\nAs a team, train in game-like situations, with the right kind of intensity and pressure. Anybody can play keep a way when they aren't under pressure, but only the good player can do it in a crunch. \n\nYou can recreate game-like conditions by making the areas you are playing in small so that there is constant pressure on those with the ball. Then, when you are getting the right intensity, open the game up and play in a larger area.  For example, start with 8 versus 8 in the goal box and then open up into the whole half once the intensity mimics that of a game.\n\nWhen you’re not training with the team, work on technique by kicking the ball against a wall. Make sure to use both your right and left foot. Keep your ankle locked and strike through the center of the ball with pace.  Get your body behind the ball with a uniform strong sense of balance.  \n\nIn order to become a great passer, you’re also going to need to become familiar with the different kinds of passes, and the various ways in which they are used…\n \n\nPut Your Best Foot Forward\n\nThe way in which you move the ball depends on several things, such as:\n\n·         Where it’s going\n\n·         What you want it to do when it gets there\n\n·         Who’s in the way, and\n\n·         What part of the foot you use\n\nThe first three factors depend on your own strategy, but the last one depends solely on technique:\n\nInside of the foot:  This is the most useful part of the foot to use when passing the ball. It’s the part of your foot with the most surface area, thus giving you the most control and accuracy. \n\nInside edge of the foot:  This is the same as the above but with the upper portion of your foot to bend the ball. Wrap your foot around the ball so it curves into your teammate’s feet or into an area, as with a cross or shot.\n\nOutside of the foot:  This kind of pass is used when you want to bend the ball into a teammate or into an area.  Often, your body is in a position where you can't make a simple pass.  If this is the case, try to strike through the ball.  Follow through with the upper portion of the outside of your foot.  \n\nLong passes:  This is for driving the ball into a teammate..  If you are picking a player out, you don't need to follow through the ball. Instead, strike the ball sharply and stop your follow through just after hitting it.\n\nBy fine-tuning your skills as a passer, you can significantly increase your team’s chances of success. Your victory won’t be complete, however, unless you and your teammates learn to cooperate to control the ball…\n\n \n\nPassing Standards\n\nThere’s an endless variety of patterns and drills that can help your team expand and hone its passing vocabulary. These, however, are the most important passing blueprints that you should be familiar with:\n \n\nGive and Go or Wall Pass\n\nMake a pass at an angle to a teammate and he or she plays the ball back to you after you have made a run behind the defender. \n\nThe key
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get ur group of frnds in the team and try playing monkey in the middle to help u communicate and pass. and try juggling the ball to give you some extra ball control. also dribble the ball through ur frnds using tricks. and finally kick at a goal over and over.
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there are soccer leagues all over the place.  your state should have a youth soccer organization and an adult organization.  al you have to do is call and they can get you hooked up with a team.
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Learn from watching games and trust me this is the time to watch (the World Cup!)\nPractice!\nFind your personal style\nLook at your weaknesses and strengths:\nfocus on improving your weaknesses and get better at your strengths. \n\nHere are some tricks:\nOver: the inside of your foot goes around the ball.\nUnder: the outside of your foot goes around the ball.\nOver-under(or vice-versa): The inside goes around then the outside all in one motion\nRoll-under: the sole of you foot rolls the ball over to your other side but then you take a quick hop to get the foot that you originally rolled it with and do an under\nRoll-exit: sole of you foot rolls the ball to the middle of you body then then the outside of your foot brings it to the your outside.\nHow to do a header: DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES WHEN YOU DO A HEADER! Try to hit it with your forehead or else it will hurt!!!\n\nIf you need more help you can IM me at: soccerallstar4444 \n\n--i use yahoo! messenger
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yes I would love to learn how to play soccer
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well its good to keep in mind that ronaldinho used to practice 30 to 35 hours a week or that rivaldo used to run to school every morning a distance about 12 kilometers.also,u must definately join a soccer club that u trust that it's gonna teach you soccer and you will not be playing just for the win.you must also learn that losing is part of tha game.you really need to have a strong body but i think that for that the club you will join will take good care about it.have fun and enjoy the wolrds most popular ,most democratic,and worlds thoughest sport!
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You're from the US right?\nFirst of all start playing and practicing a lot because you have a disadvantage as most well-reknown players start at a relatively young age and don't stop from there.\nThen get in a team, tryout in everything you can. You can also try to get into scolarships programs if you're good enough (a friend of mine got one and is being considered to play with the US team now).\n\nI know I'm not of much help as I think that the US has got a different screening process for their players, but I'm pretty sure you need to be in a team and show what you can do.\n\nBest of luck!
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good question...first off, stick to DEFENSE...if youve been playing it all of your life, then youre probably best at it. Plus, defenders are more valuable to a team then midfield. To get in to shape? easy, you just have to want it. Run every day around the block for about 1/2 mile or so, or any distance your comfortable with. Jumping Rope is also a good way to get in shape. Also doing wall-sits really helps. Push it everyday! Best of Luck To You!