I remember a story that Johnny Warren the soccer bloke who died last year told in a coaching clinic I went to back in the 1970’s.
He told the story of an Irish kid who was told by his coach to practice kicking with the instep of the foot. Use both feet but practice using the inside of the foot. Now this kid was used to play football every afternoon but for a whole week but for that week he wasn’t seen by his mates at all. The next week at football training, the coach asked why he hadn’t been playing football with the other kids.
His reply was that he didn’t know what else to practice so he practiced what he knew he had to. He had stayed home and practiced kicking at football against the wall every afternoon with the inside of his foot. He practiced what he knew to practice.
He grew up to be George Best. One of the iconic footballers of all time.
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