I play soccer i can kick the ball hard & far im a defender & a forward so im use to clearing out the ball & scoring. Im a junior & our senior football kicker is leaving this year & I thought about trying out… any tips??? I really want to be in the football team my senior year & hopefully achieve in this sport. I dont play football at all…
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[quote]christrack400 wrote:
I thought about trying out… any tips???[/quote]
Slow down and try to remember what the word “priority” means. In the last two weeks, you’ve talked about wanting to get faster and build muscle and start cross country running and now start football. I don’t know if you’re having an end-of-high-school identity crisis or what, but you’re going to totally shoot yourself in the foot (pun intended) if you try to do all of those things at once.
The fact that you don’t play football isn’t going to help anything. I didn’t do sports in high school, but I do know that a football isn’t the same as a soccer ball. That’s like being good at ping pong, so you try to join the tennis team. Have you kicked a few field goals while practicing already? What kind of distance are you reliably successful at?
Do you know the coach or does the coach at least know of you? Presuming you’re on good terms with your soccer coach, I’m ask him to put in a good word with the football coach.
Theres different season sports right now is cross country, next is soccer then track season. Im consistent with my sports. I was just thinking of trying out i know the coach very well hes one of the track coaches that convinced me to run track… ive kicked a 40 yard field goal before.
Work on your soccer in the offseason.
Your ability to kick the ball long and far, has little to do with your ability as a soccer player.
Work on your skills and passing ability. A good soccer player would know that kicking the ball as long as you can is the last tactic you would ever want to resort to.
Uncle Bird.
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[quote]christrack400 wrote:
I was just thinking of trying out i know the coach very well hes one of the track coaches that convinced me to run track…[/quote]
Very cool then, so he knows you and knows where you’re at. Be straightfoward with him and he should be able to give you some better insight.
From reading around a bit, that’s pretty solid. Keep practicing and find what you can do consistently and, preferably, in a scrimmage/pressured/defended situation.
Have a buddy who played goalie his whole life and his HS football coach saw him boot a soccer ball and approached him about joining the football team. This was his sophomore year. He loved it, turned out to be a way better kicker than goalie and wound up getting a scholarship to U of H. Not trying to fill you with false hope or have you set unrealistic expectations, but there have been people who’ve successfully made the switch.
I say go for it. In my high school, there were two brothers who were the captains of our soccer team that kicked for us and they were incredible. Neither had played any football before, but they both could kickoff through the back of the end zone and occasionally through the uprights.
Basically, kicking has very little to do with knowing how to play the game. If you can kick, you can probably learn to kick a football pretty well and who knows, maybe you’ll be pretty good.