Q&A for How to Score a Direct Free Kick

Contact the ball right under its center. Kick the ball with the top of your foot in the middle of the laces. Swing your leg like a pendulum and follow through. You can also practice your run-up so your leg can take a full swing.

If you want to kick hard, you must follow through. Also keep in mind that the more you practice, the better you become.

Before kicking the ball, get the front part of your toe underneath the ball, then kick it with all your force.

Try to shoot with the instep part of your foot. The follow-up also plays an important role. Make sure your shooting leg follows up with the direction you want the ball to curve.

Lift your knees higher and take shorter strides, but be sure to stretch beforehand so you don't pull anything. Practice sprinting by pushing off your dominant foot more.

Most of the time, but it's a choice the team makes. It would be odd not to have one.

Make sure you hit the ball with the inside of your foot, and come at the ball from the side.

You want to get underneath the ball, but lean forward. This should give you the arch that you are looking for.

Put your non-dominant foot next to the ball, pointing where you want to hit, then kick it with your other foot.

Try to spin your wrist as much as possible when you throw the ball as this will add some spin to it. Also, use the grips to rest your fingers, but curl your fingers as you release the ball to begin the spin.

Think of the ball like it's a face. The ball has a mouth (the bottom), a nose (middle), and eyes (the top). Aim for the mouth, or bottom of the ball with power to get it to lift up.

Beckham used to curl his free kicks but Ronaldo prefers to shoot knuckle ball.

You can take a free kick anywhere, except in the penalty boxes (if you were playing proper football match with a ref). You take the free kick where the person tackled you or team played the ball in the offside position.

Strike the ball lower to get good elevation and practice to make sure that you can curl shots easily.

Strike the the right/left side the side if your right footed strike the right side with the insole and the left side with the outside and the left foot vice versa.

The distance is an obvious factor, but also the shot that you want to achieve makes a big difference in the power aspect, for example, a curve doesn't necessarily need a lot of power as long as you have the power technique, but the knuckleball on the other needs a lot of power when shooting.

In order to get the perfect free kick, you want to make sure you are hitting the ball with the right part of your foot. If you feel your foot, you have an extremely hard bone that runs down from your leg to your big toe. When ever you to make your kick, you only want to hit the ball with that bone. Another thing to consider is how much height you want. If you want more height, then you will want to lean back as you are kicking, to stay closer to the ground you will lean forward.

Accuracy in soccer comes from practice. It is no easy skill to learn, so the best advice is to just try to practice accuracy. Try to pass the ball and hit a cone, hit a certain part of the net in a soccer goal, etc.