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A volley requires that the player strikes the ball with the front of his foot, with the toes pointing downward, ankle locked, and the knee lifted this to help kicking power and prevent injury.

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Intricate passing and fluid movement between every player on the field, the key to its success is overloading the midfield area with technically skilful players who can retain possession of the football for large periods of the game. Triangular passing combinations open the defence up.

Pep Guardiola is generally credited as the brain behind Tiki-Taka. In the Barcelona 2008/2009 season they had 72% average possession in the champions league matches. As players like Sergio Busquets mastered the pivot role as he had a 94% passing accuracy as short passes became more deadlier then long balls because they controlled the games rhythm and speed.

Barcelona mastered fluid movement and positional interchange, wingers cut inside, fullbacks overlapped, and midfielders swapped positions with ease.

High Pressing and Quick Recovery: Pep Guardiola’s rule turned turnovers into instant attacks. Barcelona Tactics were that successful, that other teams copied the same tactics such as Spain in 2010 world cup.

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1- Make Frequent Small Touches of the Ball: Making frequent small touches will give you more control over the ball. Making frequent touches helps you to be able to change the direction quicker or pull off a dribbling move immediately.

2-Don’t Let the Ball Get Too Far Away: By keeping the ball close to your feet, it’s much easier to quickly react to any challenge form the other team.

3- When Running, Push the Ball Forward With the Outside of Your Foot: This makes it easier to control the ball at a sprint speed, you’ll also have better control of your speed and balance.

4-Keep Your Head Up as Much as Possible: Taking frequent looks ahead, will allow a player to know where the opposition players are on the pitch.

5- Protect the Ball With Your Body: Position yourself so that the opposition player is as far away from the ball as possible.

One of the best dribblers alive would be Neymar Jr. Not just because of his skills on the ball but his flare to go toward and beat any opposition, regardless of their size.

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1- Make sure there's enough space around you needed to

execute the shoot correctly.

2- Lean forward when your about to take the shot. When you lean forward it ensures the ball stays on target.

3- Make sure your leg is fully extended during the shot, to provide the maximum amount of power and accuracy needed to deliver a goal.

4- Lock your ankle while kicking the ball, as it will reduce the risk of injury. Also by locking your ankle it will help maximise the force and accuracy of the shot.

5- While shooting, you should focus on the ball and remove all other distractions to make sure your correctly kicking the ball in the centre. To improve your shooting technique and reduce the risk of missing the ball.

6- Lastly, you should follow through with your shooting leg to ensure that your leg is pointed in direction you kicked the

ball.

Wayne Rooney was an amazing striker with scoring 183 goals, 6 hat-tricks and 90 assists during his time at Manchester United. He was amazing striker due to his rare combination of physical power, technical skills, work ethic, vision and a natural ability to score spectacular goals.

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1- Point your standing foot towards your intended target. This increases your chances of your passing being more precise.

2- Bend the knee of your standing leg. By bending your standing leg slightly before passing, it will allow you to have better body balance and also increase your chances of your passing being precise.

3- Pass with the inside of your foot. Pass the ball with the curved part on the inner side of your part.

4- Follow through with your kicking foot. After you make contact with the ball, let your kicking foot follow through in the direction of the ball. A follow through will allow you to apply more power to your pass and maintain better control over it.

5- Keep your head up when passing. Keeping your head down limits the overview of the playing field and player’s position, which will have a negative impact on your passing accuracy.

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1- Hold your arms up to support your balance. Also you should keep your eye on the ball at all times.

2-On contact with the ball, withdraw the foot slightly to take the momentum out of the ball to slow it down so you can control ball better.

3-Aim to make contact with the middle of the ball to ensure that it stays close to the ground and does not bounce up.

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Counter-attacking sides are often split into two units – defend and attack. The defensive unit sits deep and tight, pouncing on any loose ball to regain possession and the attacking unit moves forward with the ball. After regaining possession the attackers sprint into space and create 1-on-1 situations with the defenders.

Jose Mourinho made the tactic counter attack more famous. He had been a long proponent of counter attacking football. People say Jose Mourinho killed tiki taka football with his counter attacking approach tactic. When he took over Tottenham he used the counter attack football and lead them into a title charge.

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A Discrete skill is a single unit of an activity with a clear beginning and end. A goal Kick would be classed as discrete skill.

David De Gea mastered this discrete skill of taking goal kicks. During his time at Manchester United he made 545 appearances and during this time he made 10,134 short passes and 6,301 long passes, with this he had an 77.36% pass rate completion.

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Serial skills consist of a series of discrete movements performed in a specific sequence. Serial skills usually have a set order they are performed in. In football, dribbling is a serial skill as you have to dribble around opponents with discrete skills like step overs.

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Rowing is classed as a continuous skill as it has no clear start or end and it could last for many minutes or hours. Usually the skill has to be repeated over 7 times to be meaningful.

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Keep your eyes fixed on the ball, close your mouth, tuck your chin in and use your forehead for contact. Position your body to hit the ball with your body momentum and not let the ball hit you. Also you should use your arms for balance and use your legs and hips to generate power by bending your back and thrusting forward through the ball to hit it with more force and accuracy.