How to Play Like Lionel Messi

Messi is the foremost exciting soccer player in the world.

Of course everyone that fanatic to soccer sport want to be like messi.Here I want to share about how to play like messi.


Quick points on the way to play like Messi:

1)Spend time with the ball every day weaving out and in of cones or imaginary defenders

2)Touch the ball with every step when you dribble

3)Go slow at the defender to sucker them in and then burst past them with speed

4) Play one and 2 touch soccer when it’s on, don't force the dribble

5) Shield the ball together with your body and protect it

6))Don’t give up on the play

7)Set players up by varying your play thus they don’t know what you’re going to try and do – play one        touch sometimes and dribble when you are one on one or in the attacking third.

 Messi was asked once in an exceptional Guardian story how he was able to get so good, he said:

'First of all you've got to love the game.' How much? 'Well ... from the age of three I played every day, every morning, afternoon and night. Inside the house, too. I'd break things. My mum would go mad ...'

To become a player likes Messi you want to dribble the ball with each step of the foot when you are walking, jogging, or sprinting with the ball. This way you develop close control and can cut the ball away from defenders when you need to. Messi always has the ball closes to him and has several gears he can move into, from slowly jogging along to charging at defenders – he teases them at first by moving slowly and then darts around them with a change of pace. That is the secret, the change of pace when he goes by a defender. First it’s slow, slow, slow and then he bursts passed them with speed. And he will cut the ball in either direction, to the inside or to the outside.

Watch how Messi attacks an opponent with area behind the defender to run into: 

To be continued....