How to Play Soccer

Soccer is fun, for children and adults. It is easy and so much fun to play that you really have something great to look forward to, even those that do not know how to play soccer. You will learn in no time.

Play for fun, with your friends or on a team. The most important is that you focus on how fun it is to play.

You can play one on one, with a friend and all the way up to 11 against 11, with a judge and two lines men or woman.

If you refer to how the game officially is played, on a soccer pitch, then 22 players, 11 on each team is the basic rule.

The pitch is like 64 meters wide and about 110 meters long. On each end of the 110 meters, there is a goal where the main purpose of the game is to kick the ball inside the net of the opposite teams goal.

Each team has a goal keeper that is aloud to use his or her hands to save the ball.

The goal keeper has an area of 16 meters from the goal where he can keep the ball in his hands. However he has to kick or throw the ball away, preferably to a player on his team, before he has kept the ball in his hands for 7 seconds.

A standard line up is 4-4-2. That means that a team has a lineup of 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and two attackers.

When your team has the ball in their possession it is a team effort to try to pass the ball, dribble and shoot the ball in the back of the net of the other teams goal.

The same team effort is put forth to try to stop and win the ball back when the opposition has the ball and trying to put the ball in the back of the net behind your own goal keeper.

If you would like to know how to play soccer just for fun, it can be done everywhere, just make two goals of stones or two t-skirts or what ever. Divide the player into two team and start playing.

Remember, one of the ground rules, is that it is only the goal keeper that are aloud to use his hands.

You can even play by yourself, by training your self to be a better dribbler or to pas the ball, or to juggle the ball for better control.

All in all, how to play soccer is a very broad question but playing soccer can be done by everyone everywhere.

Did you now that soccer is one of the largest sports in the world?

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Soccer Conditioning - Warm Up

Regarding soccer conditioning, there is a saying in famous in the world of coaching soccer that ?players should Warm-up to play, they should not play to warm-up.? The coach needs to train the team to build the movements gradually to game speed.

This is the perfect way to raise the core temperature and engage the nervous system. The following is some of the factors that the coach must keep in mind while they are running the warm up session.

Warm Up Tips #1
In this group, the coaches can try the following during the warm up session.

Have the players Jog for 5 minutes

Have them their Leg swings-forward, cross body, 10 each

Give emphasis on active stretching over 20 yards

Warm Up Tips #2
When it comes to active stretching over 20 yards, it must be done along with the following warm-up methods.

Have the players skip forward, backwards

Side skip with arm swing is also effective

You can also train the players for cross step.

Have the players skip across foot-big hip movement with quick steps

Train them regarding the High knee carioca. They must do these warm ups as if going to sprint

Backward run is also a tried and tested method. Make sure that in this activity, the heels must kick up to butt. That is the perfect way for backward running warm ups.

Warm Up Tips #3
These warp-up methods should also be used along with the above techniques in order to gain results that are more favorable.

You can start this round of warm up session by having the players skip with loops or swings

Now, have them Cross over skip

Quick hip swings is another great method to use at this stage

You can also have the players doing long shuffles with turn in the middle

Train them about forward and backward leg swings. This is a great way of warm up for the soccer players.

High leg forward and backwards are equally effective.

When it comes to soccer conditioning, the above warm up methods can work wonders.

Andre Botelho is a recognized authority on the subject of soccer conditioning.His web site, Youth Soccer Drills, provides a wealth of informative soccer articles, resources and tips for soccer coaches, parents and players.