If you are a young football player who is dreaming and striving to make it big, most likely, you have been told this a thousand times: Practice more and you will get better.

It does sound like the truth, isn’t it? However, the truth is not that simple — more practice does not always mean better practice.

Actually, it can even happen that you slow your own progress by simply spending endless hours on the pitch without focus or a plan.  We need to dissect this.

Myth 1: The More Time I Train, The Better I’ll Get

Some football players assume that a player who trains for three hours is automatically better than one who trains for only one hour. However, that is not the way it works.

If for example, you decide to just go through the motions for hours, which means that you are repeating the same mistakes and doing drills without focus, then what you are basically doing is training your body for the wrong habits.

Quality always wins over quantity. Training should be for the length of time and not for the number of hours.

One 30-minute session with focus, a particular goal, and feedback can be more beneficial for your game than two hours of random play.

Myth 2: Practice Means Just Playing Matches

Actually, playing games is very enjoyable.Indeed you gain skills like teamwork, positioning, and handling of pressure.

However, matches by themselves cannot develop your control, balance, or footwork.

Suppose you want to speed up your first touch, your dribbling, or your running. In that case, you absolutely have to do dedicated drills that are designed to develop these skills.

That is the error that most young players make — they think that playing matches will make them better in all areas.

Yet, matches only demonstrate what you have learned. Training is where you build it.

Myth 3: Repeating Drills Automatically Improves Skills

Perhaps you are doing 100 toe taps or 200 tick tocks every day, but if you are not monitoring your technique or progress, then you are just making a wild guess.

Enhancement comes through awareness, i.e. knowing the speed of your movement, the number of your touches, and the degree of control of your movements.

This is the point where the Flickit Smart Football and the App come in.

They are not simply doing the counting for you — they are helping you with the quality of execution.

What you do is seeing the changes you bring about by working on your speed, accuracy, and consistency, which at the end of the day, lead to your improvement.

Myth 4: Practice Has to Be Long and Hard to Be Effective

What I’m trying to say is that you don’t have to kill yourself if you want to get better.What you need is to have smart, brief, and well-planned sessions that keep your mind fresh and your body in good shape.for example, 10 minutes of Ball Mastery , 10 minutes of Footwork, 10 minutes of Agility.

This is 30 minutes of high-quality training — measurable, efficient, and convenient to fit into your day. This is exactly the method that the training structure of Flickit follows — short training, precise goals, and live tracking.

You always are aware of what you have done, how you performed, and what you have to work on next. So What Does Good Practice Look Like?

Good practice is all about three things:

Purpose — Always knowing the reason for the training (control, passing, agility, etc.)

Progress — Always monitoring your performance so that you can note your development.

Consistency — Doing it every day, even if it is only for 20 minutes.

It is not the longest training sessions that you need — it is the smartest ones that you need to do. This is how the pros build their edge.