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REC Skills of the week: STEP-OVER and HALF ZICO

Date
Monday, September 7, 2020

Description

THE STEP-OVER (HALF ZICO)
Lunge type move which involves a stepover like the scissors but in the opposite direction.  Plant your left foot behind and to the left of the ball and swing your right foot around (or over) the ball in a counterclockwise arc, from the outside right around to the inside left.  Then push off your still planted left foot to the right, and take the ball with the outside of your right foot.  Accelerate!

Push ball forward, step over ball with one foot, turn toward ball and take it in the opposite direction.

STEP-OVER

HALF ZICO
Another slight variation is to take the ball back with the outside of the right foot instead of using it as a pivot foot.  Here you fake the "stepover" as you turn counter-clockwise over the ball with the right foot, just as before.  Then instead of planting that right foot, you just tap it down and then back up as you begin to pivot back clockwise still on the left foot.  Then you take the ball with the outside of the right foot (the stepover foot) and move back in the new direction.  

Personally, we prefer this variation.  We think it is quicker and a little easier to do the pivot with cleats on grass fields. 

KEY POINTS:  The move becomes effective when the "stepover" looks like a shot or pass or lunge in that direction.  This "sells" the "FAKE" and then you take the ball quickly in the other direction. 

The move is named after Arthur Antunes Coimbra, better known as Zico, is a Brazilian coach and former footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder.

Half Zico

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