#3 His favourite trick with the football
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Bale has a wide assortment of tricks and flicks in his locker to make a defender look silly, but he has emphasised that his favourite is the side-step.
While talking to FourFourTwo Performance, he threw light on some of his favourite ways to bamboozle his opponents, saying, “The side-step is when you fake to take the ball with your left foot, but step across to the left and take the ball to the right with the outside of the right foot. Messi often keeps his eyes straight ahead. Not easy but give it a go!”
Some of the other tricks that he mentions in the interview are the scissors, the pull-push and the drag-back – each of which he uses in varying amounts to constantly terrorise defences.
(Video courtesy: F2Freestylers - Ultimate Soccer Skills Channel)
