Edition 21

Welcome to the Soccer Newsletter. Today's issue will deal with finishing crosses with the correct foot.

This might seem like a simple thing to do as you would think all you would have to concentrate on is playing the ball with the foot that the ball is played to but if it were as simple as it sounds, I wouldn't keep seeing players (including collegeplayers) reach across their body to try to finish across with the incorrect foot.

There is actually an easy way to decide which foot to use to finish crosses.   Imagine that there is a line from your body to the center of the goal  Let's assume that the ball is being served from the left side of the field into the middle.Any ball that goes to the right of this imaginary line should be played with the right foot.   If you can get to the ball before it crosses this imaginary line (which would be ideal) then the left foot should be used. This simple rule of thumb will allow players to finish with the correct foot and eliminate so many of the wasted opportunities in crossing opportunities.

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Have a great day.

Lawrence