If you have been looking at the various skills on this site that you can learn how to do, you will no doubt have noticed the roll and inside-outside skill, which is essentially the combination of two different things into one skill that can be used to better enable you to take on the opposition. Of course, in order to master two skills combined, it is important to manage the individual skills first.
You can read about how to do the sole roll elsewhere on the site, with this page being dedicated to the inside-outside part of the skill. In some ways, this is the more important part, given the fact that it can be used as a skill on its own.
Push The Ball Out Before Controlling With The Other Side
In simple terms, the inside-outside skill sees players push the ball out from one side of their foot before controlling it with the other side. As the name suggests, this is about having the ball on the inside of your boot, knocking it out in order to control it with the outside.
If you want to learn to dribble as well as possible, this is a skill that you will need to perfect. That is because dribbling with just the inside of your foot or just the outside of it not only doesn’t look very elegant, but also isn’t particularly useful whilst you’re also trying to run. This is a skill that is all about close control, but you can push the ball further out if you have space.
The first part of the move sees the inside of the foot push the ball across the body, further inside. You then adjust your foot in order to allow the outside of the boot to push the ball back the other way, to the outside.
From there, you then repeat the move over and over again. The best way to practice this might be to do it standing still to begin with, getting the feel for what it takes to move the ball from one side to the other and how your foot needs to alter and change in order to carry out the move successfully. From there, you can advance to moving forward as you shift the ball from the inside of your body to the outside repeatedly.
When it comes to using this in a match, how close you’ll need to keep the ball will largely depend on how much space you have on the pitch. If you have managed to escape from your opposite number and you have a wealth of space in front of you, you can push the ball further away and run faster.
If there is someone really close to you, you will want to do what you can in order to keep the ball as close as possible whilst still moving forward, bearing in mind that this will make it much more difficult for your opponent to take the ball off you without conceding a foul. Either way, you will be in a strong position as you look to attack.