{"id":135180,"date":"2025-09-06T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=135180"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:20:35","slug":"%f0%9f%94%a5tips-to-help-your-young-defender-become-effective-in-soccer-in-10-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=135180","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd25tips to help your young defender become effective in soccer in 10 seconds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2iO9uqil2Q?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>#1 Giving no time to react<\/p>\n<p>#2 Correct positioning and stance<br \/>\nPosition, Contain, Get set, Recover and Tackle.<\/p>\n<p>#3 Developing your patience<\/p>\n<p>#4 Anticipating their next move<\/p>\n<p>#5 Using your body correctly<\/p>\n<p>#6 The eyes on the ball\u2026 and the defender<br \/>\nYou simply wait for them to make a move and put yourself infront of them to make it almost impossible for them to get to the ball.<\/p>\n<p>#7 Always on your toes<\/p>\n<p>#8 Intimidating attackers<br \/>\nYou need to be careful with any type of intimidation. Anything light like a little push, a strong lunge towards the ball or some exchange of words to get into their  head will work.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v2iO9uqil2Q\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1 Giving no time to react #2 Correct positioning and stance Position, Contain, Get set, Recover and Tackle. #3 Developing your patience #4 Anticipating their next move #5 Using your&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6216,"featured_media":135181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}