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The best way to improve your soccer game is to practice every day. Spend an hour alone working on your skills, or practice passing with a friend or with your team. Remain focused and communicate with your teammates during practices and games. For more tips and tricks, like how to develop your sense of orientation, read on!

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Remember that soccer is a team sport. Always play with that in mind. Never play for your own glory, but for the whole team's sake. It's better to sacrifice some personal recognition and make sacrifices for the team.

Try to move the ball more than yourself. It is an energy-saving strategy. If you run all the time everywhere on the field, you will be tired within the first 10 minutes. Remember that the ball will always move faster than you. So its better to move it around fast than move yourself with it. Save your energy for when you really need to run.

Anticipate. This is a good one whether you are defending or creating game. Anticipate while the ball is moving towards you. The best thing to do is know what to do with the ball the moment it gets to you. Anticipation when you are defending is equally important. If you can foresee your opponent's next move, it will increase your chances of stopping his/her move. Velocity is crucial in this game.

Press. Don't let your opponent receive the ball so neatly. Make him/her receive the ball facing backwards. Put pressure on him/her and force him/her to make mistakes. Be careful, however, of committing a foul or injuring your opponent. 

Use the element of surprise. Don't make your next move too obvious. Put the ball at the back of the last defending line while a teammate runs to receive your assistance. Change the rhythm of your run, quick at first and when your opponent is coming at you, step on the brakes. He/she will also stop, then increase the pace again, leaving them anchored. When dribbling with the ball, don't be predictable. If you just used a move on a defender, that defender will be more prepared when you do that move again, so mix it up a little bit. 

Use the sides of the field. If there are too many people in the center, it will be difficult to create game in that area, so use wing-men on your team to exploit the sides. Penetrate those areas and then send the ball to the center for a teammate to finish the play. Hint- be careful not to knock the ball out of bounds of the field when you do this. 

Triangulate. Association is the best way to break tight defenses. Use your surrounding teammates to pass the ball to each other quickly, creating confusion in your opponent.