Where are all the left footed players?

well only 10% of the population are left handed, and i assume the same applies with feet.

Depending on your tactics, i think it can be beneficial for your winger to be on the 'opposite' wing. However, with full backs, i think it's pretty important for them to be on the 'correct' side.

 

How did you come to know this?

nerds make me feel thick, I'm sodding off to facebook!

 

More frightening than MGP being naturally right footed, apparently Rafael Nadal is naturally right handed. He had the same methodology, less left handers in the game therefore it would make him more of a weapon. Scary to think that his left hand isn't naturally his strongest.

 

If anyones interested the word for being equally bad with both hands (or feet) is ambisinistous I think. Never onc managed to use it in conversation but you never know when it'll come up

 

i'm not a nerd, you're just below par

 

This.
Not to do with hands or feet but when he was a child Adebayour couldn't jump at all or head a ball so he used to tie a ball above his head at a height he couldn't reach and keep jumping until he could head it and then would tie it higher again!

 

I can fit it into a convo
Person 1: "Thoughts on Shola Ameobi"
Person 2: "In my opinion he's ambisinistous"

 

Being a right footer used throughout my youth as a LB, I know how important it is to be a left footed LB.

LB's need their strongest foot to be their tackling foot. Taylor's left leg is too slow due to it being his weakest, meaning the player can run around it, run through it or just beat it for speed. Plus it's so easy to go outside a right-footed LB.

It's a whole knock on effect being on the wrong side of the pitch. When R Taylor misses a left footed tackle this means most of his weight is now on his left leg. His left leg is weaker than the right so the push off to re-gain lost ground is slower. Usually meaning he's been beaten down the line and the cross is already in the box e.g. SWP.

It's the same trying a right footed tackle on a player running around your left side. You have to move your own right leg across your body and the opposing players body to get to the ball usually being slow due to the distance needed to travel by the leg. This opposing player can normally see this coming and either dribble around the challenge or take the free-kick from the inevitable tangle of legs. Even if you succesfully complete right footed tackle in on the left of the pitch you tend to be off balance and facing the wrong way to retrieve the loose ball or it just goes out of play conceding the throw because you just can't hook your right leg around the ball and player running towards your own goal on the left.

Take it from a person who knows. I always did a damn good job at LB but could be easily expolited due to the above. Same as Taylor for NUFC....

In the modern game the only two players that need to match the side of the pitch with the foot they are strongest with is RB and LB.

 

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That may one day be the winner in a pub quiz.... you never know!

 

I actually go MENTAL if I see a professional waste a good goalscoring opportunity by trying to move it onto their stronger foot when they could've hit it first time on their weaker foot. I mean for a professional not to be competent with both feet is just embarassing. Also annoys me when people try to pass with the outside of their stronger foot instead of using their weaker foot. Aaaarrrggghhh. It's one of my biggest pet hates in football.

Also didn't Oba Martins sometimes take pens with his right even though he was a lefty? He was a strange man.

 

I'd imagine for many people they'll be better at different things using either foot, usually mislabelled as ambidexterity. Not directly comparable, but for example I'm a left handed writer, and my left hand/arm is generally better for precision, while my right hand/arm is better for power or sport (cross-dominance), I'd imagine that kind of cross-dominance also occurs for footedness.

You're Tioté!?!

 

Yep, took the worst penalty I have ever seen with his right foot for us against Arsenal in the relegation season when we genuinely could have beat them.

 

Coming from the latin word sinistra which means left handed. The word sinister comes from it as well due to the fact that being left handed has for ages been considered wrong.

Going to school fifty years ago teachers would have attempted to train left handers to be right handed. Crazy the lengths us humans go to to discriminate!

 

Well without giving too much away, Yes

 

Despite the great result against Blackburn I was spitting feathers at Simmo at one point when he passed up a left footed clearance by making a pathetic attempt to clear with his right. Missed completely and nearly gifted a goal. Don't know if anybody else remembers it? Really boils my blood because learning to use your off foot competently isn't really that difficult and a top tier professional should be able to do it as standard.

 

Marveaux is left footed and should be in ahead of Gutierrez, no two ways about it.

 

Most British professional footballers are lazy ****ers, they can't be arsed to practise with their wrong foot. I'd have them playing one day a week with their wrong foot, not being allowed to control, pass or shoot with their good'un.

 

Colo's great with his left. Next home game look how good his passes are when warming up on his weaker side.

 

I'm with you on that. Raylor in particular should be training hard at it. He appears to me to be very right footed and I can understand his reluctance to use his left too much in the game in case he makes a glaring mistake. Therefore he should be working really hard in training to use his left as much as possible so that he can develop it when a mistake won't matter.

Blimey if an amateur like me can learn to use his left well enough that some people didn't know what my primary foot was then they quite frankly don't have any excuse.