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PLAY LIKE SPAIN
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SIDESTEP YOUR MARKER LIKE INIES
Find yourself getting caught in possession? Not after this dribbling drill. Speed up your
thought process and glide away from opponents a la Iniesta by practising this bit of skill
INIESTA’S
DRIBBLIN
G
Drill No.1
A1
A2
A3
12 yds
SET UP ACTION HOW IT HELPS
Set out a 12 x 12 yard area. Position On the coach’s command, A1 dribbles This drill embodies the old adage:
a defender in the middle of the at the defender in the middle. A1 practice makes perfect. By practising
square. Place three attackers, feints to go left, but carries the ball a feint over and over again it will
with a ball each, around the to the right, dribbling to the side of become instinctive when you need to
perimeter of the square, leaving the square that’s unoccupied. The use it in a game. When you see Andres
one side free. defender applies passive pressure, Iniesta sidestep a defender it looks
but they do not make a tackle. effortless, and that’s because it is – EVEN MORE ONLINE
As soon as A1 has finished, he’s in cruise control.
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