Crossing Technique: Football Tips To Cross A Soccer Ball\nWie flanke ich einen Fussball? Flanken Tutorial aus dem Lauf\n► Facebook: || Twitter: xKore - Eden\nGent Jawns - Gent Jawns - TURNUP\nTechnique: How to Cross a Soccer Ball \n\nCrossing the soccer ball is about picking out a player in the goal box so they can score. Usually, the cross will come from a wide area on the soccer field. As when David Beckham gets the ball out wide, has a little bit of space and time, and whips the ball into the box.\n\nSure, there are times when you\'ll need to just get the ball in the box, serve it in to a specific spot where a teammate should be, but it\'s best to get your head up prior to crossing the ball and cross the ball to a specific player making a run.\n\nHere are the key steps to crossing the ball in soccer:\n\nStep 1) Push the ball a little ahead of you at an angle so you avoid the defender and give yourself enough space to cross the ball without the defender being able to block the cross.\n\nStep 2) Look up so you can pick someone out with your cross.\n\nStep 3) Plant your standing foot right next to the ball.\n\nStep 4) Turn your hips at an angle to the ball.\n\nStep 5) Wrap your foot around the ball to bend it with the inside area of your foot.\n\nStep 6) Strike the ball with pace, although not necessarily like a shot, take just a little pace off the ball, but hit the ball with enough power so you whip the ball into the player you\'re picking out with the cross. \n\nStep 7) Cross the ball from any part of the field in the attacking third, you don\'t have to get to the endline all the time to cross the ball.\n\nCrossing in soccer is a lot like taking a free kick, you want enough power to make it on goal but enough touch and skill to bend the ball around the wall or to get over the wall. With crossing, you\'re trying to place the soccer ball on a platter for the player to score. So all they have to do is get a foot or head on the ball and re-direct the ball into the goal.\n\nA lofted ball or chip has a time and a place, like if you\'re chipping the ball over the defense for a breakaway, but for most crosses it\'s much easier for the keeper to get to these balls and harder for a player to score if the ball is hit softly in the air. If the ball is whipped in at pace, all the player has to do is redirect the ball into the goal.\n\nThe majority of the time, when crossing the ball, you\'ll use the upper area of the inside of your foot to hit a cross. This way you can wrap your foot around the ball and bend the ball into your intended target. If the ball is coming into the player rather than going away it\'s much easier for them to score - the ball is coming into their path rather than away.\n\nBut there are