WHY lefties are better footballers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2025
- What do Da Vinci, Mozart and Picasso have in common with Maradona, Rivaldo and Messi? They're all geniuses. And they're all lefties. Controlled by the right side of the brain, they're special people. They're more creative and more emotional. Just clichés? Kick off! reporter Constantin Stüve and Mönchengladbach's Oscar Wendt explain why left footers are different class.
Report by Constantin Stüve
Camera: Thomas Lemmer
Editing: Philipp Czegka/ Christian Kahle
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Lukaku definitely has a special touch
hahahahha
💀
😂😂😂😂
Lol 😂
He had a special touch but rn he got way bigger see how he used to play
Alright people im a free agent. I'm left footed overweight and 27. I'm available for tryouts in 2 weeks.
Be our captain lol
Matthew Gibson lol
@@VJK.MD. done. You can talk to my agent in FIFA 20.
@@matthewgibsonmusician to little pressure. Not worth it........unless I get paid like Alexis Sanchez
Page over hendrix all day all night, every stage, every guitar...stop smoking buds and read music
interviewer: so lefty's are special
osuamne dembele: why are u asking me..i am still figuring out which one is my stronger.
Himanshu Borah he takes pens with his right foot because he's better with his right.So he's left footed.
Himanshu Borah 😂😂😂
True... Like nobody knows what his strong foot is not even himself 😂
Son has entered the chat
@@keloduma son has left the chat
Robben is the perfect example of 'fear the man who practices one kick a thousand times' 😂
Quaresma laughed from the side
@@soumyajitroy9921 does that guy still play
@@nofurtherwest3474 Yeah
Repent, sinner- Heil GOD
It’s better to be able use two feet than only having your left one
End of Debate
Facts my guy make sure you have a five star weak foot.
If robben can scored 250+ goals with his left foot only then it doesn't really matter
Well I'm left footed but for some reason I can do better with my weak foot than most of my right footed teammates and I've noticed that it's easier for me to shoot or cross with my weak foot than it is for right footed players, maybe it's just me idk, but I've seen quite some players that even though they're lefties they have a decent weak foot too
@@oakyros9305 dude am was on the same path....when i was a kid i learned to use my right side for example using my right hand to write even in soccer i was teached to use my right foot...while i was growing i realised that my left side (both foot and hand) was much more efficient comparing to the right...so i suddenly became a left footed and a left handed user except of writing(i can write with both hands though)
That is so true
'Man city's magicians are left footed'
Kevin De Bruyne: am I a joke to you
Ok but thinking that 10% of people are left footed and David and Bernardo Silva, mahrez, and sane are all left footed
thats what video's like these do, they push their narrative with false examples. They completely forgot about sterling aguero and de bruyne.
@@Jordidwaard you're naming 3 left footers and 3 right footers. The point of the video is that 10% of all people are left footed, yet they make up so many footballers. How little can you possibly comprehend?
@@matthewhrmich5350 That wasnt the statement though, He said ''The best Creators for this team''. How little can you possibly comprehend?
@@Jordidwaard so how come 10% of the population makes up 50% of the best creators? Its an obvious statistical correlation
Pele, Cryuff, Ronaldo, R9, Okocha, Suarez, Henry ALL played tennis
cosmo guess what they all right footed
@@fluxisdead2860 😂😂😂
@@mimo-bine video said that lefties are mofe often geniuses than righties
Iniesta ,xavi , Figo also lol , all had class and were right footed
Your clearly not getting the point. Of course there are world class right footed players hes says that in the video, the point is that there if often a lot more right footed players than left footed players but, there is an abnormally high amount of world class players who are left footed. eg every 1 in 10 right footed players may be world class where as every 3 in 10 left footed players are world class.
Im left handed but right footed
1 like - 1 hour training left foot
Same
Vise versa
Same
Same
Kar Gocheep how it training for left foot what are the steps ?
Here's my observation:
More right footed player=more practice against and with right footed player
Results in:
Left footed players as rare = more unknown to the majority(right footed players)
*Results in:*
Left footed players harder to predict therefore harder for rights to defend/attack
*Results in* :
Left footed players used to right footed players' movements and abilities = also figure they'd continue working on their strength (left foot) to be even more unpredictable for right footed players
*Ultimately Left footed players dominate *
Thanks to their minority/rarity.
Temporary Kinda exactly. It’s the idea of competition vs cooperation, where competitive dominant species such as dogs and cats are 50% left handed and 50% right handed, while cooperative dominant species such a humans are 15% left handed, and 85% right handed. Because cooperation benefits people who are the same, for if you’re the same, whatever works for me, will work for you, so it’s easier for humans to cooperate and share things such as weapons, machines, and other tools, since majority of people have the same dominant hand. But then there is competition which benefits the unusual, so you’ll see in terms of competition there will be a mix up in physical features, such as height, size, weight, and of course dominant hands, because the more different you are to other people in your species, the better you benefit in terms of competition. So that could be an explanation for why people such as Messi, who is left footed, but also shorter than majority of the people he faces benefits in football, similar to how Ronaldo who is taller and physically stronger than most wingers that defenders face, also benefits. It’s just simply the idea of being different than others that benefits you. Hence why left handed people benefit in a right handed world, same as how right handed people benefit in a left handed world.
This is true. I have been playing against a left footed striker that plays in my team, so during matches in training we play against each other. I'm a defender (CB) and I've played a lot against him, it's been 2 years now. At first it was really difficult to predict, as he is also very skillful, but then as you get used to him it kind of gets easy as he will always use his left foot no matter what.
Interesting theory. I was also thinking so many flair players are more dominantly left footed as shown in video. When you think of flair three players come to mind.. Ronaldinho (r), Messi robben( left). There is something abt them!
This applies to martial arts too and it was my first thought when I saw the title.
It's an advantage because its harder to play against something you have no means to train against.
If there's more to it than that it should be researched not just debated.
But I remember my martial arts teacher had us take turns training vs the only left handed disciple we had on the dojo, and it was hard and they had an easy time because fighting vs right handed people is natural to them, *but then they had the same problem when they went to a tournament, the left handed had an extremely hard time fighting another left handed individual.*
both feet as good as the other is miles better
Guy: *Says left foot players are better*
Ronaldinho: *Am I a joke to you*
And HOW more genius... literally the 3 best passers EVER were right footed: Pirlo, xavi, iniesta
@@TheBallonDOrWinner facts
@Ayaan Zafar the fact that one leftie is great doesn't mean that every leftie is better
Najdentie I am a lefty my feet is quick
@@user-sx1kx2kq4u gj then
Ronaldinho : Am i joke to you?
Ronaldinho has both feets
United Nerd Two-footed ✌️
Players like Ronaldinho or Okocha that had lot of creativity and were right footed, could easily use both feet
Ronaldo, Ronaldo and Pelé
no hes right footed
How is Bernardo silva the most special player at man city, I think someone just forgot about de bruyne
de bruyne is left handed.
@@Fitz2364 he is right footed so I don't think so
Liverpool 2 how is salah best of them?
@@peacexlovexrespect2723 you must be a dimwit for not seeing M. Salah as the best in Liverpool.
@@J_Luigi good one the guy can't even control a ball properly
-how strong ist your german accent?
-Ja.
Cristiano Ronaldo: " Am i a joke to you"
@Ved Kulkarni but his right is better than his left imo thats the point
Messi and maradona is better
@@darknessdark7371 no maradona played in farmers league 😂😂😂
@@iconzile2169 maradona is the best player in history
@@iconzile2169 lisp be respectable
I'm left footed like MESSI and MARADONA. Except I'm not good at Football.
Same bro
Then train harder
Same
My kid is a righty but scores about 30% of goals with this left. He's only 7 but in a competitive club and the top goal scorer. Do you think he could go pro someday?
Left handed and left footed, 12.1% are left footed.
Who's also left footed like me and not a genius?
can't relate am quite successful in football world😬
@@junior-3123 yea right
imagine if you commented this on reddit, you'd get downvoted unironically
I’m ambidextrous and it doesn’t help me much
@@samflynn5096 sad Life
I am left foot and right hand.. i was awful player in my local team and still get the team because there were not another left foot player 🤣
Dhegacade haha true - it’s always a problem finding left-footed players.
Xanny da Miner hey.. i said local team i mean small team 👍🏽
Dhegacade lol 😂 ani meesha hadaa jogi lahaa waaa ka xogii lahaa booska 😂😂
Dhegacade if I was there You would’ve been on the bench 😂😂
That's because u don't work hard enough
9 minutes of making me feel good about myself 😂
His rinnegan on his left eye socket
Average Nathan and the sharingan in his right eye 🤓
*bad**
Yo naruto fans
Sasuke is left handed...
1% is from genius, 99% from hours and hours of practice
Practice makes perfect
"It's also notable that the hardest shooters are lefties"
Steven Gerrard: Hold my beer.
He certainly could hit a ball. Cup final v West Ham his hardest?
However Gerrard did also play alongside left footed John Arne Riise, who hit the ball even harder than Gerrard
Roberto Carlos?
Steven Gerrard: Hold my scouse Bovril.
Adriano
Few seconds later
Pelè,Ronaldinho,Okocha,Baggio and Juninho...And CR7
"Are we a joke to you??"
Wtf is Okocha doin here
@@rogerillavila9540 one of the most technical players ever,he was HIGHLY UNDERRATED. If you really know football...you won't ask
@@user-tr1gc6yi2h didn't ronaldinho pick up stuff from okocha?
@@rasulabernathy4110 exactly...Okocha was Ronaldinho idol and mentor, and he said he picked lot from him. Quotes of Ronaldinho himself
And lukaku :😎
"Most wanted Bundesliga player..."
Jadon Sancho: Am I a joke to you?
havertz is way better lol
Sancho is overratet
Robert lewandowski
As well
@@JF-cf6jt Lewandowski is trash
This is just a perception and not 100% correct and there are many examples where players are left footed and not great players.
U are probably left brained right handed and u are not logical enough as the video says to know that nothing in this world is 100 percent perfect or accurate.
Fair Logic lol i'm left handed and i agree with him there are more world class right footed players than left ever
@@fluxisdead2860 But are they proportional to their percentage of the population?
Flux IsDead because there are more right-footed people. When you look at the ratio, then more left-footed people are more talented
@@fluxisdead2860 because there's only an average of 3 leftfoored players out of every lineup
Imagine thinking this
Some of the best footballers ever are right footed.Sure there are some greats with their left ex:Messi,Maradona but this does not mean Lefties are better
You misunderstood the whole point. It isnt that left footed players are better. But the fact that on a pitch there are maybe 2 or 3 left footed players out of all the 22 players and they are usually star players of their teams.
U are probably right footed. Like u shouldn't take this too seriously
I smell a righty 😂
@@adelekeadedamola6234 It dosent matter which foot you use cause a right footed player can be better than a left footed player or a left footed player could be better than a right footed player
It’s in proportion to right footed players, lefties tend to have the numbers since almost every left footed player is good, compared to right footed players.
The only way to know would be if the population was 50/50, not 80-20 in favor of right.
Also, one of the best pitchers (Cy Young {Literally has an award named after him}, or modern day Clayton Kershaw of the LA Dodgers) and quarterbacks in the NFL was left handed (Steve Young). Of course, most are right handed, but lefties can be good at other sports too.
McGregor is left handed, and he’s one of the greatest UFC fighters ever. Lefties may be small in number, but the ones that do, tend to stand out.
Guy: says left footed people are magicians
Ronaldinho and R9: so this is what this generation is on aye?
The point is when looking at the Mount Rushmore of football the 4 people in highest contesting to be the 🐐 I would think is Pele, Maradona, CR7 and Messi. Half of them are lefties. Yet only 10% of the worlds population are lefties
Maradona and Messi are better
More right footers = more practise to tackle right footed players
exactly. i think thats all theres to it
*Ronaldinho, R9 and Thierry Henry has left the chat
This is not true about lefties are more genius, the best passers ever like pirlo, xavi and iniesta are RIGHT FOOTED
theguyfromsky scholes
@@TheBallonDOrWinneryou had me when you said ronaldinho was not a genius
I'm a left footer but got a football IQ if a headless chicken. Welp
Now you've made me feel insecure about my right foot
DONT FEEL. Literally the 3 best passers EVER were right footed and GENIUSSES. Pirlo, xavi and iniesta were geniusses and the best 3 passers ever.. what a stupid video this actually was...
True to be honest
Pelé, zidane and ronaldinho, R9 and CR7, iniesta xavi gerrard kroos de bruyne bruno all are right footed (fact %70 of them are both footed but the main foot is right)
yes
As a right footed player, what strikes me most in dis video was this: Lefties more often than righties work on their strenghs (Messi, Robben, Rivaldo). On the other hand right footed players more often use both feet (RC7, Neymar etc..). Dunno ...I personally and definitelly on purpose train my left foot. i can pass, shoot, cross, do some skills with both feet. Sometimes even better than my stronger right. For example today i played futsal..i scored two goals (one with right + one with left). My question -should i work more on my strenghts rather than weaknesses ( maybe my weakness isnt my left foot-its kinda bonus to be able to use both legs in every situation.......MAYBE my true weakness is my right foot...bloody hell XD)? ty for patience
Me too but im born left and i still make sure both of my feet have the same progress in football
@@periodic8883 ye but we invest our precious time into our "weaknesses" rather than strengths, u get me? 🤔😑😁 maybe it's better just train cutting like Robben....
@@marcusson1983 well i prefer to not have a handicap and able to play both sides of the pitch
@K4 Josiah i do that as well but if you can use both legs the way you play football can be very unpredictable
@K4 Josiah eg i do a fake robben cut in then go at the outside to cross
Ronaldo and Dembele must have a 1 billion IQ then lol
Pele
@@rocksteady2198 fraud
@@jonni1486 ????
Rocksteady Advanced for his time but would probably be an average player if he played now
Camping in penalty box waiting for perfect crosses from teammates doesn't require any iq
This is a bit weird I’m left handed when I write but everything else is done with my right hand and I’m right footed
Same
I am left handed for everything except 1)Football and 2)mouse on computer... When I was young I guess I learned to play with my right foot in order to mimic the other kids
Same im lefty when i write,draw,erase,sharp pencils
But other were righty
You’re probably ambidextrous
Left hand left foot but my sister right foot and ambidextrous
The main finding of the study was that about 12.1% of people were left-footed. There was a strong, but not perfect, overlap with handedness. While only 3.2% of right-handers where left-footed, about 60.1% of left-handers were left-footed. Thus, the chance of being left-footed is considerably higher for a left-hander than for a right-hander. Men had a slightly higher chance of being left-footed than women and professional athletes had a higher probability of being left-footed than the general population. Interestingly, footedness was less influenced by cultural and social factors than handedness, probably because no parents ever try to relearn their left-footed kids to be right-footed.
Im left footed and right handed. Its very rare according to science
Just found out Messi is Left footed and right handed as well🔥 think the term is called cross dominance
Where are my lefties at
Reporter: Are you right footed or left footed?
Ousmane Dembele: hmmm, left footed
Reporter: Sure, but you also score with your right foot
O.D.: yeah, I'm more left footed.
Rerporter: Don't you shoot penalties with your right foot
O.D.: mmm, yes
Reporter: why?
O.D.: Because I shoot better with my right foot.
Lol
Ambidextrous
@@jaydentakungo some ambidextrous players are really trash
@@Leonidaaas45 so are some right or left lol 😂
Juninho,Pele,CR7,Ronaldinho,Mane,Modric, Ronaldo Nazario,Luis Suarez,Aguero,Kaká,Pirlo,Ibrahimovic am I a joke to you.Juninho had a missile in his leg.
List more players down below that are right footed
Mane and Modric seem a lot different skill wise than the other names
@@capa1575 I know but I did not what to put them cause the list would've been long but I am going to edit my comment.
Aguero
@@capa1575 Pirlo
Kaka
I am left footted at football and i am the best youngest left footed player in my city,i work very hard and i always score alot of goals, most goals are from the center of the pitch and btw, i am right handed, most of specialist are saying that this is a rare thing to happen, but i respect and the right footed players❤️
nice i respect left footed player....
Same
As a Right Footer, I thank you for respecting us even though you're a left footer, unlike other left footers who constantly point out that they're Left Footed and that think they are better than us Right Footers.
I feel like the guy who praised left footed players is left footed himself.
yes
right footed and handed just very conservative stupid and have no brain
I’m a right footed left back now that’s special
Nate Kiaran 14 I’m a left footed right back. Actually that’s a lie im a midfielder
Same lol
I was CDM that took home seven trophies and I was right footed against most left footers truth is if you can control both your left and right foot you become more of a player that can set the game in motion to any format no matter the preferred playing style of the player
philip lam from germany. :)
I m sorry but this is pure nonsense
i bet you are right footed
@@jazzpahfantazzpah4640 We would assume so, yes.
It really isn't.
Joseph Stalin I’m left footed, wouldn’t say pure nonsense but there was definitely a lot of bullshit
@@blanco7726 yea im lefty too but they mentioned famous lefties and im searched it up and einstein isnt a lefty so there is some crap.
It's probably impossible to definitively prove but I definitely think there is something to this theory. I played for a highly competitive soccer team growing up. We were a big club, probably around 50 kids in my age group divided onto 3 regular teams and 1 elite team where the best players from each of those teams would play together against an older age group. Of those 50 kids, every single left-footed player was on the elite team. There was not a single lefty who wasn't a top player in our club. And the two guys who ended up having the most successful careers from our club were among those left-footed players. It's just one anecdote but I do find it very interesting that none of the lefties were bad players. It's something that I've been thinking about a lot, so this theory really resonates with me. There's just something about lefties.
As a lefty I see that the strength is a little bit less but the aim is good
yea im left footed but i can shoot harder with my right but my aim is still better with left
Here is my theory. If you have a left foot, you are more intuitively genius, while if you are right footed you are thoughtfully genius.
Thats why right footed wingers and attackers are ball magicians like Zidane, Ronaldinho, Pele, Ronaldo, Okocha, Zlatan etc. They have alot of tricks up their sleeve since they use the left part of their brain and have a lot of moves for every situation.
While the left footed players play more intuitively and it seems like the foot is glued to the ball,but since they play more intuitively they get stuck in certain habits like Messi or Robben and dont use many tricks.
Stupid 😂. Left footed uses right side of the brain and vice versa
@@divinesmercy162Whatever, be charitable. Ever heard about the human factor?! 🙃 Theory is good though.
@@mixedsportsanalyst6774 love you from India bro. Chill and take care
This is also annoying, everytime someone sees me shooting with my left foot they all say: "Wow, are you left footet?"
Same as being left handed(not my case sice I'm right handed)
For me it's interesting that many of left footed are right handed.
Same I’m left footed and I’m right handed
Then Santi Cazorla is god !
i mean the guy's definitely and absolutely two-footed
Yea ashley Young is a Pure talent
edit: He actually is left footed
Hes not
If u use both feet then you'll realize that your left feet is better at dribbling than the right feet..your right feet works on your balance but your left feet work for direction change
“Same for Man City magicians”
Aguero and de bruyne : are we a joke to you?
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I write with my left hand but my stronger foot is the right one. So would I be better than others?
Atharv
If you boxed or played basketball, you’d be a god, but playing football, you’d be normal.
This is a very interesting subject and great food for thought. The idea that lefties are so used to playing against righties and then also potentially having a natural gift for the perception of space is fascinating indeed.
5:47 Now thats just wrong
The greater population is right handed. Hence most footballers grow playing against right footed, makes it easier to defend against them, also these guys forgot to mention some great people who are right handed, like Aristotle , Einstein, Socrates, Plato, and top footballers like ronaldinho, cafu, maldini, ronaldo,. Statistically, since left handed are lesser in population, any generic amount of left handed geniuses will out way the total population of right handle, as there's a smaller total sample size out of both right and left handed people. Where as for right handed people its the opposite. This creates an illusion that left handed are more geniuses,
Left footed players are special.
Right footed players are very special.
Boxing is another good example where lefties have a distinct advantage because righties hardly ever fight lefties, but lefties fight righties almost every fight
I was thinking the exact same thing when he was talking about how the oponents percieve your style as a leftie.
Hahaha, true!
im right handed and left footed and ive always shared something with my other friend who was left footed and right handed we were always the smartest on the pitch and its hard to tell why
I'm also right handed and left footed👀
As a lefty myself I have to sadly point out that lefties use more of the right side of the brain is just a myth. Many studies have already debunked this idea. ,
it is often cited that around 95% of right-handers are “left hemisphere dominant”. This is not the same as the “left brain” claim above, it actually refers to the early finding that most right-handers depend more on the left hemisphere for speech and language. It was assumed that the opposite would be true for lefties. But this is not the case. In fact, 70% of left-handers also process language more in the left hemisphere. Why this number is lower, rather than reversed, is as yet unknown.
Finally, a lefty that acknowledges the fact that Brain dominance is a complete myth.
( I wrote this comment because there are still some people in the comment section who still believe that this brain dominance as a literal fact.)
Remember this
Left foot=talent
Right foot= hard work
cap im a leftie i used to be the worst in my grade
now i got scouted for fulham academy
lefties work just as hard as right footed players...
@@maroisike7908I mean,I have a friend that played futsal as a defender for 3 or more years,and every since I learned to dribble,I can almost always get past him,I don’t know if he didn’t train much or something,but ever since I started practicing 2 months ago I started to “feel” the timing of everything,like passing people and and shooting,which is weirdly something that only happens with my left foot,like if my right foot was slower to do these things,and I have been able to play quite good individually, idk if righties also have that,but even if I trained my right I don’t think I would be able to “feel” when things would work
C.ronaldo ronaldo kaka Zidane dani alves ronaldinho romario ia Right foot and all of them is special you play with left or right don't matter i think , right foot players can learn to play with left, it.s more difficult for left players
I feel more creative when I try to use my left hand for ✍️
The best players in history are ambidextrous, they're just too rare because the circumstances that make them go both feet are particularly rare. Pele was a prime example of this, he was right footed but could do the same things with both legs he trained every aspect of his body because at age 8 he promised to his dad he would win the World Cup. In the case of Maradona after Goikoetxea broke his leg he had to work intesively to recover it but couldn't get it to how it was before so he improve his right one a lot even tho he still overwhelmingly prefered his left foot. Then there's Johan Cruijff who as a wee lad was told he couldn't play because of his physique, he was naturally right footed so he had trained his left foot to become left footed. More recently, Diego Forlan thought his left foot was so useless that he began training it and became ambidextrous with a left foot that had much more power and almost as much precision as the right one.
Thanks for your input!
@@dwkickoff Thabk you for your work guys. You guys make really interesting and unusual videos.
Great video, Wendt seems like a really nice guy, i love how you approach football differently than most other channels who just go into results and tactics. keep it up! Your accent has also improved and it's much easier to understand you, something i can't say about myself :P
Eliad654 Oscar Wendt is AMAZING
Eliad654 True - it was a really good video (my channel can help with football vocabulary)
@@EnglishforFOOTBALLFANS Thank you, I already took a look at your channel.
Who here has been on a team where you are the only left footed player, and they still put a right footed player on the left back position, in which my case, it was a lot of trouble for the right footed player, when I had to play on the left I could always manage to get the ball away from the right winger, but the thing that I didn’t like about my coach was that he would try and put me as a right back, even though he knew I was left footed player, so it kind of sucks being on a team full of right footed players and being the only left footed player on the team.
Amazing video
Most people are right footed, so when there’s a lefty on the pitch it’s easier to throw off the opponent who is most likely right footed since they are more common. Ambidextrous footballers are the real deal though.
Mighty Madman I used to play with an ambidextrous kid and it used to blow my mind when he would step up for a penalty and his problem was not knowing what foot to use I would be like wtfff use your best foot he’d be like it’s both. I can use both equally idk and I’d be like 😤😤😤 I wish that was my problem
Yes sir!!!!!!!!!!!!
literally the 3 best passers ever were RIGHT FOOTED xavi iniesta and pirlo
I'm left footed and right handed
Same
same
I'm left handed and left footed and not a genius.
Not all of them dummy
Well I was born left handed and left footed but I always tought I wasn’t good compar to right users
Im left footed and right handed
imagine playing as a striker till you change your club and the manager plays you as a left back because you are the only left footed guy. This is my story how i quitted playing football haha
Einstein was right handed 😒😒
No
I feel good being left handed now lol.
These guy talked about left footed players without even mentioning gareth bale..
Only Bale?
Fuck 😆 what about Benjamin Mendy the guy who do basic mistakes that even kids don't
well and Lukaku and the list will go on
Considering there are far more right footed players there is a good amount of good left footed players. It's amazing that the difference isn't that large in football unlike it is in the society
I am left foot and I am pretty good so I agree
I'm cross-dominant right-hand/left-foot. Like Wendt said, coaches always played me at LW or LB as the only leftie on the team. That meant I modelled my game after players like Giggs and Roberto Carlos. I think this is part of what makes lefties generally finesse players-all of our role models are wizards! It's a little bit like wearing the no.10 or 7, you know there's an expectation of the kind of player you need to be.
One season I was playing up front and recovering from a knee injury which meant I had to take most shots with my right foot. It was my best scoring season ironically as I think I focussed a lot more on getting into "easier" scoring positions because I was shooting on my weaker side.
3:36 "just because you have a left foot" I guess us right footed people are hopping around on one leg😂!
Lefties are better
Legends: cruyiff,ronaldo nazario,ronaldinho,beckham,romario, park ji sung,paul scholes,pirlo,del piero,thierry henry,bergamp :i'm joke to you
Coaches always point out that I don’t use my right foot but when your left footed you already have the advantage so over the course of time you naturally avoid using your right since it’s less beneficial anyways and if I need to make i right footed pass I’ve gotten so good with the outside of my foot that it doesn’t matter yet coaches always criticize me for it but they don’t understand as they aren’t left footed
Thank to God I am left footed 🤲🤲
As a leftie i tend to like playing through balls on either side of the pitch. It feels so simple and effective. Being left footed has advantages like when facing right against and opponent it’s easier to change directing to the left. I’ve always felt special as a left footed but it has also many disadvantages. It’s very hard to work with righties.
Same
Them: so are lefties better than righties?
Me: *Looks at brother* No
no they arent: literally the best 3 passer EVERr were right footed: pirlo xavi iniesta what a stupid video this was
theguyfromsky scholes you mean
@@TheBallonDOrWinner Not Iniesta Kroos instead
Right foots players are better than Left foot
But I am both foot
I was right footed until I was injured. After the injury I switched to left and it became natural. I found doing the same things with the left foot much easier.
This makes me feel more better about myself knowing that I’m a lefty that kicks the most goals at my school (no bragging seriously, I love my left foot)
Same,Messi in at my school
3:11 he sounds like a can opening
ngl
Left-foot squad, where you at?
I am left footed but damn i am dissaster in football not to talk about my first touch in all my amatuer football career not even a fucking single ball stoped with a first touch, not to mention my goalscoring history, once i got 1on1 with the GK Srećko, i dribbled him hit the post could not score!
Im left handed but right footed....
Mbappe: "hold my beer"
Wow and I'm both left handed as well as left footed!!
Cr7,Pirlo,Beckham,Scholes,Ronaldinho,and Zidane be like: *BRUH*
Tbh,this is a great vid bro.Keep it up
Zidane is playing with both of them
Sainath NPC Zidane used his left
He is twofooted
Yoborisov which means he used his left ...
I am left and right footed but play my matches with my right
That’s 9 mins of me wondering why I can’t even kick a ball straight
'm a lefty and haven't played in years, but thinking back, something that helped me a lot was being pretty good with my right foot too.
From an early age, I would kick the ball with both feet because of one reason, Cruyff. My dad said if you want to be as good as Cruyff you have to learn to play with both feet. Well, I heard that as a 6 or 7 year old and I was sold - who didn't want to be as great as Cruyff? Unfortunately I never quite made it to Cruyff level, and although I practiced all the time, my right foot never became as good as my left. However, my right was good enough where I never had to think twice about using it. If a ball was coming to my right foot and I had a shot on goal or good pass option, I took it. If I was dribbling and going to my right to get off a shot was an option, I went right and took the shot. So overall, it just opened my options up.
At the time, I never thought about it. I thought everyone practiced and played with both foot. It wasn't until more recently that I've started watching more soccer and noticed how many pro players are exclusively one-footed. It's surprising to see missed opportunities because they waste that fraction of a second to move the ball to their strong foot, but by that time the defense is there and the opportunity is lost.
Cruyff was my motivation, but I also wonder if being one of the only lefties on my team made me want to learn to kick with my right too - you know, "to fit in". Not that I felt I didn't fit in, but I just wonder if lefties are more likely to learn to use their right because of some subconscious feeling;
Ok so I think the fact that 90% of football greats are right footed sort of cancels this out. But another question, why is it left footed players are normally so bad with their weaker foot?
Ie. Messi, bale, Robben, Cairney, Di Maria, Sturridge etc. Whilst most "two footed" players are naturally right footed ie. Eriksen, Forlan, Zidane, David Villa, Pedro, Cazorla etc.
That's a good question. The video touches on this a bit, saying Lefties practice their 'special skill' more, but it doesn't explain why this is the case.
Have there been any great two-footed players who were naturally left-footed?
@@dublindave78 Only ones I can think of are Ousmane Dembele and Brahim Diaz, but in interviews they both say they aren't sure which is their strongest foot. Brahim takes freekicks with his right foot, which means maybe he's more naturally right footed, but we can't be sure haha.
Left footers are predictable...when they play on the right they cut in....when they shoot their penalties its mostly to the right
yeah . go and predict messi or robben or salah or mharez or bernardo silva or sane lol
Yet every lefty that cuts in from the right almost always is a prolific goalscorer.
Jose Manuel Varela Puig Messi’s penalties are predicted like 50% of the time, he’s not a good penalty taker, even when he does score them a lot of times the keeper guesses right but doesn’t save it
@@nathanmasters7952 Our posture tends to give a lot away. On the other hand, left footers are excellent direct free kick takers :)
Nathan Masters go stop van persi penalti then
I am a left handed,left footed and everyone wants me in their team.
But I write with my write hand because my parents taught me so
so zidane is right or left foot?