Many football players I know are stuck playing club level football and they have great potential to go out into the world and really make a name for themselves. The problem here is that they don’t play their natural game on the field, because they will either tense up and get really nervous, or be extremely casual towards the events that occur during the game. This comes about from a little bit of arrogance, laziness and even lack of fitness. The main point of this post is to hit home that when you go out onto the pitch, play your natural game, no fancy stuff when it’s not needed and definitely don’t act casual when you go after the ball.

Have Hunger When You Run

Hunger for the ball, not in the stomach sense. It is rather underrated and not drilled into kids these days, but the best players in the world have an undefined hunger for the ball which lasts even after the game is done. I personally can’t stand to sit there while I watch someone else playing with a football, I just always want to get up and join them. I know that many times during high school I have really made myself uncomfortable by playing football and then sweating like a hog in class, all because I had a hunger to play and essentially score goals. A good way to see if you really have hunger for the ball, is when the opponent takes the ball off you, do you run after him to get the ball back or do you leave it up to the defenders? If you are the latter, work on it and make sure that the ball is yours again, because where would you rather see it? At your feet or your opponents feet?