Soccer is a number one sport globally with one huge reason in particular: all you need to play is your body and a single ball. You can play for hours only to kick and lead a ball with nothing more than a square of land. While a real soccer game takes a lot of other skills, how strong one is at sport often gets down to their ability to play soccer, and juggling is the best way to develop that talent.

Getting command on how to juggle a soccer ball and learning to better balance and control the ball during the game is a perfect way to impress your soccer friends. While juggling can sound daunting at first, the secret to ultimate success is practice, practice and practice.

So, in this post, we’ll discuss the value of juggling, how to juggle, as well as some advice on how to take your juggling skills to the next level. But hang on to the second… What’s juggling while you’re concerned about soccer? Before we get to tell you why and how, let’s learn about what juggling is

What’s juggling?

Juggling is the process of holding the soccer ball in the air by all possible means (except by hand, of course) and it can be practiced individually or with the players of your group. Think of a hacky sack, but with a larger, tougher ball. Working on this methodology helps you develop your ball handling skills. That’s one of several reasons why this skill is so essential to master.

Why Juggling is Important?

‘This is a huge waste of time! ‘There are several other drills I’m supposed to spend my valuable energy on! ‘Who wants to juggle the ball after all? ‘All these statements are sometimes said to the players when they practice. Juggling is often underestimated, and it is a big misunderstanding, as mentioned above.  After all, by incorporating juggling to your daily drills, you will gain some fantastic benefits.

Handling the ball

In the introduction segment, we stated this. Training to keep the ball in the air helps you to develop and improve your ball handling skills. Your game can only benefit from the ability to hold the ball with the accuracy of juggling.

Receiving

Are you also a solo practitioner? Juggling will help you develop a better initial link. By being a juggling master, you’ll be able to carry the ball nearer as you obtain it, no matter how you first encounter the ball.

Convenience

Make your soccer game competent and relax with the inclusion of juggling to your daily training schedule. With your enhanced ball handling skills you can be more at control in other activities too, such as passing or dribbling the ball.

Sounds interesting? Well, then let’s learn about how to start juggling.

How to Juggle

As everything else juggling is going to take a lot of patience and preparation, however when you think at what you’re going to get for your hard work, a little frustration is all right. Here’s how you can start your juggling practice.

Step 1 

Shoot the ball in the air and then let it touch the floor, popping up once. Once the ball bounces back, kick it and catch the ball in your fist.

Step 2

After every juggle, switch your feet so you can get better juggling on both legs.

Step 3

Now that you’re relaxed with a sole juggle, continue the cycle, except try to get two juggles for every foot.

Step 4

It’d be a smart idea to keep this activity up so you can do at least 5 juggles a foot until the ball reaches the deck.

Step 5

Now that you’re more comfortable with juggling, it’s safe to go hands-free. Push up the ball and pursue the above practice.

If you hold this practice up on a regular basis, you can have a high return on your investment. Just keep patience.

Some Encouraging Words and Tips

Discomfort happens!  You’ll fail a lot, struggle a lot, but be consistent, you’re going to be successful and, like all things, great things come to those who keep patience and do hard work. This is a skill that needs time so take a few deep breaths and don’t let that skill defeat you.

Greatness comes to those who are most diligent. Just like with disappointment, you have to remember that working through the aggravation is the answer. Eventually, with practice, you can crack the enigma that is called juggling.

Try to be a pro!

When you get familiar with the simple juggling, continue to hit the ball higher and higher.

Switch it up

This suggests that try to strike the ball with various parts of your foot. Using this would further improve the skill of handling the ball.

Your legs are not the only part of your body:

Try adding more parts of your body in to your soccer game like head, face, and thighs.

Try adding more parts of your body in to your soccer game like head, face, and thighs.

Backspin, this is also great!

Strike the back of the ball and get a little backspin. This will make it a bit easier for you to juggle.

It’s all right to lose count!

Quit trying to break the juggle record you made a day before, and just concentrate on juggling yourself.

Contact a friend!

If you want to make juggling a bit more fun, add a few mates or a squad of yours. his will not only improve your abilities to handle the ball, but it will also improve your relationship with your mates. Plus, the ball is harder to manage if you add another player, and this will increase your skill even further.

Conclusion

Hopefully, after reading this post, you’ll learn how to juggle a soccer ball and also can see the importance of incorporating juggling in to your daily training routine. It’s not that tough to do, and with improved ball handling and more ball ease, you’ll be ready to catch that MVP slot more better than ever before!