Q&A for How to Play Soccer

While alone, practice dribbling with both sides of your feet while keeping the ball as close as possible, and of course practice shooting. When you're with the team, practice passing and receiving and make sure you're all paying attention to each other.

Practice often, this cannot be over-emphasized. Learn new skills and ask your coach, any player or your friend to show you amazing skills. Watch soccer videos on YouTube as well. See further How to Be Good at Soccer for more advice.

Of course you can. Don't let anybody judge you if you play soccer. As long as you enjoy the activity play it as long as you want. You can even pursuit it as a hobby.

You have to look at the ball first -- if you look at the players constantly, the defender will take advantage of it, but if you want to pass the ball, you can look at the players to whom you want to pass.

Control the ball in the air with by stopping it with your instep. Make sure you have your eyes on the ball and cushion the impact of the ball.

Run alongside your opponent. When you see your chance, drop to the ground and push the ball out with the leg nearest your opponent. Bend your other leg as you do this, or you could break a bone. Be aware that this can be extremely painful if the opponent steps on you. Never slide tackle from behind, which is an automatic red card.

You can never master soccer, even if you started when you were two years old. Everyone will make mistakes, even if they are pro. Just try to do your best, and learn from your past mistakes.

There are many different techniques for this, but here's one. When the defender is in front of you, try dragging back the ball with your foot, then pivot on your other foot and start dribbling in the other direction.

Nothing really, if the ball is still in the net, they can pick it up and give it to their team for the restart at the half line. Otherwise, they just get back into position.

A friendly match is played for the sole purpose of fun.

Have the players pair off and take turns practicing the shoulder charge on each other, while the defending player's weight is on the outside leg. Advance to drills where the defending player is dribbling, then set the ball down and have both players contest it. Early on, the focus should be on keeping your balance and avoiding illegal contact, not on force.

The best way is to go in front of them, get the ball from them, and then pass it to a teammate.

Train. Start with one mile, then one and a half miles and keep running faster and faster. It's a matter of practicing running with regularity.

These beginner tricks are a good place to start. You can find a large freestyle community online to share tips and more advanced techniques.

if you really want to know a weakness of a player, go to their soccer practices and observe them at play. See what they are struggling with or just watch them play in general. Notice the things they are struggling with and determine that that is probably their weakness. Realize someone may be doing the same for you too.

Practice! Keep practicing on all of the various skills and you will get better.

In soccer, it is called a "tackle" to steal the ball from another player. You can get the ball, be kicking it away from them, intercepting a pass, or a slide tackle. A slide tackle is when a player slides feet first in effort to get the ball away from the opposing player. Although, If you intentionally go for the player of even in some case miss and injure the player, it can result in a red card.

Offsides is when the forward of the opposing team revives a pass from a teammate behind the other team's defender.

You should start running at least 4-5 days a week. You'll need to improve your cardio. You should also watch a lot of football on TV and study the rules of the game, which you can find online.

Approach the ball from the side, make contact near the lower corner of the ball, and lift upward as you swing your leg toward the goal. These in-depth instructions should help you understand this motion.

Practice at shooting goals, under the tuition of a coach or a top player. Take a few lessons about it, keep practicing. Eventually, you will become really good at shooting goals provided you keep practicing, as it is only through the doing that you can ever improve this particular skill. Also watch YouTube videos of great goals, for some strategy ideas.

Use skills, speed or both. Ball rolls, stepovers or even a rainbow flick will help you get past the defender. You can also use your speed to run around and past your mark. Don't forget to take the ball with you!

You can fall to the ground from where the ball is coming and catch it with your hands. A lot of practice at catching is really the best way to learn how to catch the pass and to improve over time.

It's easy to kick, just practice. When you're running with the ball, kick it with the upper side of your foot, on your toe. Take a few lessons, and practice your kicking.

If you want the ball to go higher, use your lasses on the football boots and run faster.

You could, but it wouldn't be smart to pursue a career in a sport you don't enjoy. That would be very stressful for you over time.

A yellow card is a warning that comes before a red card.

It's okay if things don't happen overnight, so you have to work for it. Ask your friends and your coach for some help, and practice more when you're at home.

Develop your weaker foot from the beginning by using it to kick the ball against a wall from different angles and distances. Do this over and over so you learn to use the foot. This practice will help you master how to pass the ball with your weaker foot and, in time, should strengthen your foot as well.

They tend to only do this at the professional level because the team supplies new jerseys for every game. Sometimes they'll even get new jerseys at half time.