Zev Taublieb breaks down what college soccer recruiters want to see in striker and winger highlight reels: goals, hold-up play, dribbling, and defensive moments. He explains why Every Touch videos need bird's-eye views and voice-over to show off-ball movement, and gives specific framing tips for each position.
As a striker, the obvious one are goals. Lots of goals, lots of different kinds of goals. Show us your ability to strike outside the box. Show us your ability to do a tap-in. Show us your ability to do a header. Lots of different goals is super helpful, but we love to see if you're a hold-up striker, which means like you're really good at posting a center back and then you can lay it off and then spin around and go to goal. Or if you're more of a run-in behind and somebody plays you a through ball, you're pretty quick, and then you slot it in behind the goalkeeper near post or far post. And those tend to be the two different types of strikers, or they're combined. So show us which type of striker you are. In addition though, once you've shown us your goals, we definitely want to see your dribbling next. And then after that, if you have moments where you're defending, especially as the first line of defense, we would love to see that as well. For your highlight video, goals and assists, goals and assists, that's the name of the game. Couple layoffs are fine as well. But when it comes to your Every Touch video, now we want to see all of you. We want to see when you hold up, we want to see when you lay it off, we want to see how your movement is, we want to watch you make a run that nobody passes you the ball, but we still get to see the run, which is why you need a bird's-eye view. Wingers, we kind of like them nice and tight because we want to see what their ability is like. For strikers, we need a bird's-eye view. We need a VO, a trace, so that way we can say, oh, look at that run they made, but nobody picked him out or her out, but they're really good. If you want more help playing college soccer, comment the word call and schedule a call with you and your parents.
