Age of Ambidextrous Girls Soccer

[Anonymous]

Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Do most U13 or older ECNL/DA or EDP Girls are equally efficient (kicking, dribbling, etc.) with both feet? Or are they typically only right dominant with a weak left foot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give me a break...few if any world class players are ambidextrous.
Yes, they should be proficient with both feet, but there's a reason left footed players are so valued, just like left handed batters in baseball.

DS is left footed and has a pretty strong left foot at that. He's still in an age bracket where the GKs rarely expect shots off the left foot or realize they need to defend a bit differently.

How is his right foot?

[Anonymous]

even Lio Messi is stronger with his left than right. Should they be proficient with their weak foot, yes. Will they be as good with either and truly ambidextrous--very rarely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Do most U13 or older ECNL/DA or EDP Girls are equally efficient (kicking, dribbling, etc.) with both feet? Or are they typically only right dominant with a weak left foot?

My DD is that age on a DA/ECNL team. She can use either foot without thinking(breaking play). She is stronger with her right but it is hard to tell. She started an early age and is not typical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Do most U13 or older ECNL/DA or EDP Girls are equally efficient (kicking, dribbling, etc.) with both feet? Or are they typically only right dominant with a weak left foot?

My DD is that age on a DA/ECNL team. She can use either foot without thinking(breaking play). She is stronger with her right but it is hard to tell. She started an early age and is not typical.

That’s great. What position does she play? How often does she play against other two-footed players?

[Anonymous]

Dribbling: while watching a player move with the ball, it should not be apparent which is their dominant foot.
Short passes: It should not be apparent which is their dominant foot. However, this is where you'll see players change what should be easy passes on their weak foot into difficult passes on their strong foot. Bad sign.
Long passes: At almost every level, including pro, it is rare to see players pass long with their non-dominant foot.
Finishing: Every player should have the ability to finish with both feet, including volleys. It is unfortunately common to see players pass up good chances if the ball is not on their dominant foot.
Striking (free kicks, PKs): spend time working on your dominant foot. If you perfect everything else (!), then try a pk on your weak foot.

A few years back I did a finishing clinic with a State Cup-finalist U14 boys team. All except 2 sucked with their non-dominant feet--surprising to me at the time. Not sure how it is at the DA level. ECNL is a nothingburger on the boys' side.

Juggling is awesome for learning how to control the ball out of the air. And with the amount of kickball played in the US, this is vital. Use both feet. Walk. Run.

Any decent training program will force your kid to develop both feet for dribbling and (short) passing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Do most U13 or older ECNL/DA or EDP Girls are equally efficient (kicking, dribbling, etc.) with both feet? Or are they typically only right dominant with a weak left foot?

My DD is that age on a DA/ECNL team. She can use either foot without thinking(breaking play). She is stronger with her right but it is hard to tell. She started an early age and is not typical.

That’s great. What position does she play? How often does she play against other two-footed players?

She plays the 10 and scores 90% of her goals with her left foot. At this age just being able to one touch the ball with either foot is a big advantage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Do most U13 or older ECNL/DA or EDP Girls are equally efficient (kicking, dribbling, etc.) with both feet? Or are they typically only right dominant with a weak left foot?

My DD is that age on a DA/ECNL team. She can use either foot without thinking(breaking play). She is stronger with her right but it is hard to tell. She started an early age and is not typical.

That’s great. What position does she play? How often does she play against other two-footed players?

She plays the 10 and scores 90% of her goals with her left foot. At this age just being able to one touch the ball with either foot is a big advantage.

My DD can will the ball into the goal from any position on the field by left and right sided telekenesis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Do most U13 or older ECNL/DA or EDP Girls are equally efficient (kicking, dribbling, etc.) with both feet? Or are they typically only right dominant with a weak left foot?

My DD is that age on a DA/ECNL team. She can use either foot without thinking(breaking play). She is stronger with her right but it is hard to tell. She started an early age and is not typical.

That’s great. What position does she play? How often does she play against other two-footed players?

She plays the 10 and scores 90% of her goals with her left foot. At this age just being able to one touch the ball with either foot is a big advantage.

My DD can will the ball into the goal from any position on the field by left and right sided telekenesis.

The coronavirus must have gotten you and your entire family for you to have this type of attitude.

I asked the question and the PP answered it. Why are you such a jerk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Do most U13 or older ECNL/DA or EDP Girls are equally efficient (kicking, dribbling, etc.) with both feet? Or are they typically only right dominant with a weak left foot?

My DD is that age on a DA/ECNL team. She can use either foot without thinking(breaking play). She is stronger with her right but it is hard to tell. She started an early age and is not typical.

That’s great. What position does she play? How often does she play against other two-footed players?

She plays the 10 and scores 90% of her goals with her left foot. At this age just being able to one touch the ball with either foot is a big advantage.

My DD can will the ball into the goal from any position on the field by left and right sided telekenesis.

The coronavirus must have gotten you and your entire family for you to have this type of attitude.

I asked the question and the PP answered it. Why are you such a jerk?

It’s the anti juggling poster...just toxic.

[Anonymous]

Is being "anti-juggling" even a thing? Like, can you even soccer and be "anti-juggling?"

[Anonymous]

I wasn't sure of my son's "footedness," he used both feet equally. However, when he was around 7.5 years, I noticed that his left foot had finer control of the ball, his slaloming through cones was smoother with his left, in addition, his juggling was way better with his left- he always preferred using the left to juggle. He dribbles well (about the same) with both right and left feet. However, he has more power in his right foot so tends to shoot harder with his right. BTW, he is right-handed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi everyone,

Do most U10/U11 Travel Soccer Girls able to kick and dribble equally well (or almost equal) with both feet?

If not, at what age do you see most of them developing this skill?

Thank you.

I’ve seen U17 refuse to use left foot. Same players get upset when not recruited.

[Anonymous]

I assume most if not all of U13 and above Girls Center Midfielders on elite teams are ambidextrous. Is this mostly a true statement?

My U12 DD has practicing hard on her weak foot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the benefit of juggling for soccer skills in a game. But knowing how to juggle well over 100+ times, how does this improve their game?

It improves first touch.

This is true, although at some point I think it stops mattering all that much. The world's best freestylers are not the wordl's best soccer players, and vice versa.