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The world of soccer tricks, born of creative players in Brazil and Europe, has moved into a realm separate from league play with a style called freestyling. Girl players have mastered the art of freestyling, which requires skillful moves while juggling the ball with the limbs, torso and head. Top freestylers, including Indi Cowie of North Carolina and Laura Biondo of Italy, do the same tricks as male counterparts such as England's John Farnworth and have placed well at competitions.
Approach
Cowie met Farnworth when she was 11 while attending a Brazilian soccer school. Inspired by his moves, she began teaching herself freestyle. She allows several weeks to learn a really difficult trick and a couple of days for a simpler trick. She advises being dedicated to your soccer tricks, working hard and avoiding discouragement until the wondrous moment when you succeed at a trick. "When you actually get it, it's just the most amazing feeling ever," she told "The New York Times."
Juggling
The foundation of freestyle is juggling mixed with stalls. Juggling entails gently popping the ball in the air with the top of your foot or your heel, thigh, head, shoulder or chest. Bondo even uses the side of her ankle, while Cowie uses her shins and the soles of her shoes. Cowie lies on her back and does sole juggles, spinning the ball in the air on the soles of her feet as she appears to run upside down and letting the ball drop for a knee catch and then drop further for an ankle trap.
Biondo's Stalls
Stalls entail allowing the ball to rest in place on anywhere from the top of your head to the sole of your foot. Common stalls involve the top of the foot, the back of the neck, the chest and shoulder. Biondo does a foot stall on her ankle while lying on her side on the ground. She also performs stalls that involve brief pauses of the ball on the back of her neck before rolling it and stalling it again on her head, chest and shoulder. She also goes from a head stall in a standing position to kneeling and lying on her back, the ball remaining neatly perched on the crown of her head.
Cowie's Stalls
Cowie stalls the ball on the side of her head with her torso bent sideways, then stands up straight until the ball Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly is on top of her head. She also stalls the ball on her shins while sitting or lying on the ground. Her signature move is the standing sole stall, as she stands with her knee bent and the ball balanced on the sole of her foot. The pair also shot a video showing Cowie using one soccer ball to hit another ball in a neck stall on a prone Biondo. About the Author

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