England’s Beth Mead times the run to perfection to stay onside and break the Austria defensive line. The attacker controls a difficult ball before lifting the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper.
An inside look at England Lionesses training including fitness, ball control and movement, shooting drills and small sided games… and a lot of celebrating goals!
GOAT?! I know what you’re thinking…what? why? It stands for Greatest Of All Time 🙂 Viv Miedema is a striker who plays for Arsenal and the Netherlands National Team. At only 25 years old they are the all-time leading scorer in the FA Womans Super League and have scored more goals at the international level for the Netherlands than any other player, across both the women’s and men’s teams, as well as winning a host of trophies and awards. (Read more on Viv Miedema’s Wikipedia page. In the video they tell their story of growing up in a small town to becoming one of the best female players in the world!
AC Milan fullback Alessandro Florenzi demonstrates just how effective a one-two pass can be. The Italian plays the ball to the right winger, continues forward, receives the ball back on the run and powers an unstoppable shot past the goalkeeper. A prime example of how a fullback can exploit space to get into dangerous attacking areas.
You may remember a few weeks back at a Friday evening training sessions trying out ‘the chop’, changing the direction of the ball while dribbling with a quick chop-like motion. Here is one of the greatest players of all time, Lionel Messi showing how it is done.
With 89 minutes on the clock in the second leg of the Champions League semi Real Madrid were about to be knocked out of the competition. Losing 1-0 on the night, and 5-3 on aggregate against Manchester City, they needed 2 goals to take the game to extra time. In 89 minutes of the game they hadn’t managed a shot on target, but… they kept going, kept trying and sensationally managed to score 2 goals in 2 goals to take the game to extra time, before getting and scoring a penalty in extra time to win the game.
It only takes a few seconds to score a goal, keep trying and keep playing until the very end.