Feints in football are any deceptive movements that football players make in order to outwit and outplay their opponents. Many famous players have one technique or another that they have mastered perfectly. You can read about the feints of the most famous players in article.
If a football player skillfully performs the same feint, bringing it to perfection, then with its help he will still beat defenders using his signature weapon.
Young players must study and train football feints, which are taught in sports schools from an early age. Without learning to perform a certain set of technical techniques, a football player will not be able to achieve any serious success. First of all, forwards and attacking midfielders need to master feints, but they certainly won’t hurt players of other roles.
How to learn to make feints?
Beginning football players do not necessarily have to go to a sports school under the guidance of a coach to learn how to perform feints; these elements can also be taught via video. There are special video tutorials that describe various techniques in detail. Every player can learn many deceptive movements that are performed with the legs and torso, if desired; this requires patience, perseverance and time.
Of course, you shouldn’t immediately try to perform a complex trick that is incredibly difficult to master. There are quite simple feints in football; learning technical techniques should begin with them. Of course, some particularly difficult tricks require football talent to perform. But many technical techniques are available to almost every football player. It is only important when studying them to follow the rule: from simple to complex.
It's not that difficult to learn how to perform a feint, for example. This feint involves simulating hitting the ball. The opponent reacts to the completed swing, takes certain actions to interfere with the blow, and block it. And the player throws the ball and leaves the opponent.
Often, football players perform so-called “leaves” - deceptive movements with their legs and torso, simulating a departure in one direction, after which the players abruptly move in the other direction. The opponent, having succumbed to the trick, in such situations usually no longer has time to interfere with the movement of the football player with the ball. These are also not such difficult feints; learning to “escape” does not take much time.
Before you begin to master any deceptive movement, you should replay it in your head many times and understand all the nuances of performing this feint. After this, you can start working with the ball, but alone, without an opponent. At first, the role of the enemy can be played by some kind of stand or a separate tree, if you are training in the yard and not on the field. Having mastered the correct movements, you can try to beat your opponent in the game by catching him with a learned feint.
To learn how to perform feints in football, which are best taught at a young age, you should develop coordination, dexterity and some other useful qualities. For their development, there are special exercises that are easy to find on the Internet or in specialized magazines. This will certainly help in the future when new, more complex technical actions are studied.
If you decide to learn how to make feints in video lessons, learning football techniques will happen gradually. Having not properly mastered one deceptive movement, you should not take on mastering another, technically more complex element.
Possession of football feints is a cool skill that allows you to beat your opponent. First of all, an attacker or a midfielder needs to master feints, but these skills and defense will not interfere. After all, defenders also go on the attack. If a feint helps a defender beat a player and score a goal, then the whole team will be happy about such a player, and the coach will have to think about whether it might be worth placing the defender in the attack area, or letting him attack someone else’s goal more often. Sometimes goalkeepers also make feints in football. For example, when the goalkeeper pretends to knock the ball out, but at that moment picks the ball up under himself (the opponent fell for the shot and jumped - in general, it turned out to be bad luck) and with the other foot the goalkeeper passes the pass to the nearest defender.
The main purpose of feints is to deceive the opponent with a deceptive movement (deceptive movements of the legs, body) in order to get past him (beat him), and then make a pass or score a goal.
How to learn to make football feints?
To do them, you need to understand in theory how feints are made - look at descriptions of football feints in books, magazines, on the Internet on websites, watch videos. Replay it in your head as if you were doing this feint. And only then start training with the ball. You can do this alone at first. Then try to beat your opponent. Also, football feints can be shown by the coach, the guys with whom you play football. You can also learn about a feint when you are deceived by this feint.
Let's look at some football feints
There are also several videos with feints at the end of the article.
1. Deception in the form of a false strike. You swing your leg as if you want to kick the ball, hit the goal, but you don’t kick, but take the ball to the side or pass by. The opponent must fall for this blow, jump, and put his foot up. In general, with such a movement you will distract him, and you yourself will pass by.
2. Moving away from the opponent with the ball. You need to show the enemy that you will move in one direction or another. This can be shown with your foot, making a kind of lunge in one direction, but at the same time turning to the other side. You can show this not with your leg, but with your torso. By pretending with your body that you are moving in one direction, but in reality you are moving in the other.
3. Moving forward at speed. If you are a fast person, then when you get close to your opponent, it’s easy to dribble around him, throwing the ball forward and overtaking him at speed. It is also better that you are already at speed, moving forward. But if you start quickly, you can throw the ball forward from a place and quickly gain speed by running up to it faster. The main thing is to throw it into the free zone so that there are no other opponents ahead.
4. Roll the ball backwards under your foot. In some situations, you can outwit your opponent by rolling the ball backwards with one foot. This feint can be used when you are running with the ball at speed, and an opponent is running next to you from the side, or he is running up to you. You just need to stop the ball. The opponent will fly forward at his own speed. And in front of you there will be room for further maneuver.
5. Circular movements around the ball. Maybe you have seen in football how sometimes players make circular movements with their feet around the ball. This is done in order to tilt the opponent in one direction, and to rush in the other direction.
6. Zidane's feint. Complex feint. But if you learn it, then everything will be done easily. You need to roll the ball back with one foot, and pick it up with the other foot and make a circular movement with your body. As a result, you bypass your opponent. Watch the video to understand everything better.
7. Rolling the ball between the legs. Keep an eye on your opponent and you can sometimes outwit him by rolling the ball between your legs. In order to roll the ball between his legs, you need to look not at the ball, but at the opponent. Then you will be able to notice the right moment.
Of course, these are not all the tricks that exist! Maybe you'll even come up with your own signature trick. Many professional football players constantly perfect the same trick, so that they can later demonstrate it at the game, in public, and delight people with their feints.
When learning feints, try not to look at the ball! Look at your opponent! Learn to move without looking at the ball. Then, as soon as the opponent wants to take possession of the ball, you will already take the ball to another place, either throw it past the opponent, or give a pass. Study, train and then you will have no equal in football feints!
To make better feints, constantly train with the ball, learn to control it, move with it, and hit it on your foot. Good luck!
Football feints - video
Football tricks will take you far! But just don’t forget that football is a team sport and sometimes it’s better to pass than to feint, especially when you’re close to your goal!
A football feint is a deceptive movement aimed at beating an opponent. He helps to bypass him in one-on-one combat, change the speed and direction of the team’s attack. The ability to feint is a prerequisite for being a master of the game of football.
In the modern game, not only attackers and midfielders have them, but also defenders and even great goalkeepers have such weapons in their arsenal.
The feint itself has little meaning. It is most effective as part of the dribble. Dribbling is the individual dribbling of the ball, which must be done at speed while maintaining control over it. And when meeting an opponent, with the help of a feint, you can free yourself from guarding and continue dribbling or pass.
By and large, a feint is a trick. But in the game, the trick itself doesn't matter. It is simply a means of gaining an advantage in a particular episode of the game. The feint must be linked to the general idea of attack development. For example, when there is a fast attack, feints are appropriate only those that speed up the advance, or change the direction of its development, unexpected for the opponent.
In such a situation, even one extra or too long feint in terms of execution time can slow down and devalue a quick attack.
How to practice feints
A feint is only effective when its execution is brought to the point of automaticity. Moreover, the decision to use it is brought to automaticity.
Decision and execution must happen simultaneously. Such automaticity is achieved through long training. It must be said that if you try to do it right away or master the final phase, nothing will work.
Practicing feints, like other football skills, consists of several stages:
- Remembering the order of actions. Since for high-quality execution, you need to understand everything well in order to bring everything to automation.
- Mastering the elements. This is, first of all, the position of the body's legs. From which stance should the feint be started, which leg is the supporting one, how the arms and legs work, how the body bends and turns. At first, you learn all this without a ball. And only after the arms, legs and body remember the mechanics of movement, it is worth moving on to the third stage
- Working with the ball. The most important thing here is to learn to control the ball when performing a feint. Control is needed throughout the entire process – before, during and after execution.
Feint practice
Work without the ball and with the ball should be started slowly, highlighting the phases of movement. First, the approach to the ball, then the beginning of the feint, the feint itself and subsequent actions.
Then all phases are linked to each other and executed as 
a single unit at the lowest speed and without enemy resistance. When it starts to work out, you can increase the speed, gradually bringing it up to what will be needed in the game.
After mastering speed execution, you can move on to using obstacles. At first, these may be stationary objects: a stand, a peg or a box.
Then, having learned to “circumvent” obstacles, work with active opposition begins. Typically, such training is usually alternated, changing the execution of a feint to counteraction. As a result, visual muscle memory is supplemented, which occurs when practicing movements.
Examples of feints
Change of directions. This is the simplest and, at the same time, the most frequently used feint. When moving with the ball, the player abruptly changes direction, and the opposing team player skips past the ball, thereby opening the way for the development of the attack. But the simplicity of implementation here is apparent. To perform it well you need to be able to:
- maintain balance;
- do not lose speed;
- do not hit the opponent with the ball.
It is important to monitor the position of the body. Changing direction, the football player tilts his body in the direction of movement. And the sharper this change occurs, the steeper the turn turns out. At the same time, the speed is maintained thanks to automation. The higher it is, the faster the execution.
To eliminate the possibility of interception, you need to throw the ball under the opponent’s supporting leg. Lionel Messi performs this feint most competently and effectively.
He always keeps the ball close to his foot, instantly changing direction. The low center of gravity allows him to do this at a small amplitude, and his high speed and automaticity are brought to perfection. He acts simply, without flashy or showy poses, leaving defenders far behind.
In this case, Messi makes good use of his natural abilities - short stature, low center of gravity, short legs. A tall football player with long legs would not be able to work with a short amplitude. He would sooner become entangled in his own feet.
And therefore feints need to be selected according to the individual characteristics of the football player. It is easier for a small person to work with an explosive jerk and a sharp change in movement, for a tall person to work at distance speed and a wide amplitude.
The most striking example of using the features of your body is Manoda Francisco Dos Santos, better known as Garrincha. His different leg lengths, short body and explosive speed gave him the ability to make sudden changes in movement that were unexpected for a defender. The feint was quite simple, and everyone knew it, but Garrincha always found a moment when the defender was not ready and chose the direction towards the opponent’s supporting leg, doing everything quickly and sharply.
Even simple, deceptive movements can help overcome resistance. To do this, it is very important to perform the feint at speed when the player and the ball are in motion. The defender may have time to react to the player with the ball, but due to the laws of mechanics, he is forced to take additional actions. The player, at the time of performing the feint, must take into account the position and action of the opponent. In addition, you need to take into account his build and individual qualities.
And most importantly, feints should not be an end in themselves. They serve to enhance team play, and their use must be justified by the development of the attack. Very often, a one-touch game is much more dangerous and looks brighter than a cascade of various feints.
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Football fields are good, but it’s still better to come and play football, knowing how to handle the ball. Football feints gained great popularity after the 2018 World Cup, given that we watched football stars with our own eyes. In our new material we will tell you what the most famous feints exist and how to repeat them. We will also indicate those who can teach. Go!
5 football feints
1. Elastico
One of the most popular football tricks, born in 1975 in Brazil. Then, in a local championship match, the famous Roberto Rivelino surprised his opponents by scoring a very beautiful goal. Nobody knew how to stop the football player. The legendary Ronaldinho gave the feint its second birth. In Barcelona, the Brazilian was on fire in such a way that the feint received worldwide recognition.
Elastico is not the easiest feint. It is best to start with the basics and repeat the movements at low speed. The defender must peck at your display in one direction and at the same time not have time to return to where you are going. To perform a feint, tilt your body to the right and lightly push the ball in the same direction with your outer foot, but then sharply go to the left and move the ball to the inside. Your opponent will be a fool if you do everything right. Almost like in this video.
2. Rabona
Rabona is not quite a feint, but rather a deceptive pass or strike. Young people often indulge in such tricks. In the RPL last season, Russian fans were shocked by SKA striker Juan Lescano, who almost scored against Zenit. Rabona can be performed the first time - it's a question of quality. In order for the ball to reach the recipient, to achieve a beautiful serve or even a goal, you need to train for years and watch football feints performed by masters for hours.
3. Zidane's Feint
The famous “Marseille roulette” or “Zidane’s feint”. The great French football player performed this trick perfectly, although previously it was often used even in the USSR championship. Anatoly Byshovets loved this trick. The Zidane Feint will be effective, not just spectacular, if performed at high speed. Otherwise, the defender will easily read your intentions. During a feint, the attacker spins the defending player 360 degrees like a top. For more information on how to do the Zidane Feint, watch the video.
4. Cruyff's feint or "false swing"
One of the most popular feints in modern football. Even central defenders and players who cannot be called masters of dribbling can perform it for a long time. The trick is named after the famous Dutch football player Johan Cruyff. This was his first time performing such a stunt. Now the “false swing” can be seen several times in every match. The perfect way to get rid of a protector. The main thing is not to be too predictable. To put it simply, the defender must believe that now there should be a shot and a serve - at this moment the attacker removes the ball under himself and goes the other way.
5. Hokus-Pocus
A famous football feint that Neymar often performs. The essence of the technique is that the player sharply shifts the ball from the inside to the outside. In addition, the trick is performed behind the supporting leg. If you feint with your right foot, you must have room to turn to the right. Please note that at speed you need to keep your supporting foot at a decent distance, otherwise the ball will simply crash into your foot and you will make a turnover instead of a feint. Watch the video carefully.
How to learn to feint
We do not recommend focusing only on feints. If an adult wants to learn how to perform football feints, then you still need to start with the basics. The most prosaic trick, although not very spectacular, but very useful, is chasing. During the first training sessions, try to simply hit the ball as much as possible. You will feel the “shell” on your leg, improve control and be able to perform simple feints. We do not recommend starting right away with complex feints. It's worth learning the basic technique and then chasing Messi and Ronaldo.
After chasing, it will be a good idea to learn how to keep the ball on your foot. Try to press the ball against the boot with weight. You can’t really use this trick in the game, but it will help a lot to control the ball.
The simplest football feints
After mastering basic football techniques, you should not immediately rush to repeat the tricks of your idols. Start with simple football tricks. Two techniques that you will most likely succeed on the very first day. However, we recommend training not alone, but with a partner. This way the training will be more effective.
The simplest backyard trick is to throw the ball between your opponent’s legs. Beginning soccer players often make the mistake of placing their feet too wide in a defensive stance. Throw the ball between your legs and run into the attack.
Another simple football trick is a trick named after the legendary Briton. The feint is done in two touches. With the first touch, the ball is transferred to the opposite side with a slow movement, and then the ball is sent away from you at high speed with the outside of the foot. The video shows everything clearly; the trick is not very difficult.
Who can teach you how to make football feints?
There are enough football schools in Moscow, including for adults, which we wrote about in our large material. However, they will not specifically teach feints there. There are a few exceptions in the metropolitan area. The IFreestyle school is recruiting children from eight years old. Classes take place in the hall.
The second unique section is Street Madness. We are ready to welcome players of any age here. Trainings are held in street football and freestyle football.
If you prefer the game of passing, and you consider feints as entertainment for young people, then.
A feint in football is a deceptive movement, the execution of which is intended to confuse the opponent and confuse him. Both the movement of the body and the movement of the ball can influence the opponent, causing him to move in one direction or another or make poor decisions. To successfully perform feints, it is important to feel the ball well and skillfully manage your body.
Simple deception
One of the elementary feints, the meaning of which is that the player in possession of the ball must first imitate a movement in one direction, and then sharply turn around and move in the opposite direction. To achieve maximum effect, you should focus on your own movements (turning the body and lowering the shoulder). When performing a feint, it is important to be confident in yourself (even if the technique of performing a feint movement leaves much to be desired), otherwise the opponent will take advantage of any hesitation and take the ball away. After successfully performing a feint, it is very important to turn sharply and, gaining speed, break away from your opponent.
Basic exercise
To hone your feint skills, it is enough to work together with a teammate. The player in possession of the ball must try to dribble around the opponent using feints. At the same time, it is impossible to simply run around this conditional opponent. If you succeed in beating your opponent, then you can try to perform the feint again; if not, the performers change roles and test their strength in new roles. You can play until a certain score, scoring points after each successful stroke.
Exercise "Guess - outwit"
These are exercises for two players, one of whom will serve as a defender and the other as an attacker. It is necessary to limit the playing area with tags - it is best to install tags at a distance of 4 meters from each other. The goal of the attacker in possession of the ball is to get to the mark. If the defender manages to touch the mark with his foot, then it becomes conditionally inaccessible for the attacker, and he is forced to move to the opposite mark. The game continues until the attacker touches the mark. After this, the performers change roles.
Crossover
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