Puma v1.08 Trainer White Green Astro Soccer Boots - Evening Soccer Trainer

The v1.08 upper uses a thin, lightweight and abrasion resistant textile material. This provides the industry speed benchmark with unique ball control and touch properties.

UNI Contruction
This revolutionary and environmentally friendly construction provides a glove like fit by fully replicating the unique PUMA AptoLast.

Off-centred Lacing
The off-centred lacing system increases the kicking area and improves pressure distribution as well as reducing forces from ball impact.

ConTec Upper Material
The v1.08 uses a thin, lightweight and abrasion resistant textile material providing an industry speed benchmark with unique ball control and touch properties.

Microfibre Reinforcements
The textile upper is reinforced with a thinlayer of microfibre specifically in areas where extra reinforcement is needed. This increases durablity without adding dispensable weight.

Two-piece Outsole
The outsole is split into two seperate pieces keeping weight down whilst enhancing the fit in the medial foot arch area.

Anatomically Shaped AptoLast
The PUMA AptoLast sets a revolutionary benchmark for football footwear. Ergonomically as well as optically it closely follows the foot's natural shape and provides a glove like fit that allows the upper to mold prefectly to the players foot.

The basic principles of individual attacking in football

In general, attacking is much harder than defending. Why? Because attacking usually requires more advance (and advanced) thinking. In other words, a defender reacts - while an attacker has to have a plan if he is going to have a good chance of success. In addition, attacking requires better ball control than defending, because it is difficult to keep possession long enough to get within scoring range by just whacking at the ball. As a result, the coach must spend a lot of time in developing the ball control skills of his players, and in training them in the various elements of individual attacking.

Individual attacking has 3 basic phases. The first phase is what is commonly known as the First Touch phase. The quality of the First Touch, and the planning which goes into this First Touch, often will be the key difference between a successful attacker and one who constantly bombs out. The second phase is the actions required to beat any field defenders, so that you are 1 v 1 with the keeper (called "field attacking"). The final phase is the actions required to beat the keeper and/or last field defender blocking the ability of the ball to "see" the goal so that you can put the ball in the net. This final phase will be called Finishing (although it is important to bear in mind that the other phases may be compressed into this single phase, with a ball received in a way which allows the very first touch to be a shot on goal).

Indeed, any time that an attacker realizes that the ball is going to come to him, his first decision should be "do I have a decent chance at scoring a goal with my first touch?" If the answer is "yes", then he must always make the attempt to score. As noted later, a player misses 100% of the shots which he does not take, and it is critical to educate young players early in the notion of thinking about a shot first.

If no shot is "on" with the first touch, then the player must get the ball under control and take another look to see if a shot is now available (because defenders move around - so a momentary opening may have arisen). If a shot is still not "on", then he must figure out the best route to take to get into a good scoring position, then look once more for the chance for a shot. In other words, he needs to remember that his ultimate objective is to score goals.