MY BALL MASTERY JOURNEY By Elliott Everson OpportuntiyElite
At OpportunityElite one of our main focuses in player development is ball mastery. Over the last few years ball mastery has become a much more significant part of team training sessions at a number of different levels. Spurs were one of the first teams to actually have a designated technical coach, Ricardo Moniz, who is currently manager of SV Excelsior in Holland. Back in 2008 was the first time that I saw ball mastery as a specific aspect of training. Ricardo Moniz came and visited the training academy that I was coaching at. He provided a purely technical session, focusing on the manipulation of the ball, using both feet and quick changes of direction. At the time I was playing semi-professional football and used ball mastery as some of my own individual training, but only sporadically.
