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for example by moving the ball to a side leaving the other behind?

Is that dribble???

A google image search associates dribble with basketball. What's the standard verb for this action in football (soccer)??

Thanks

Try this: http://www.and-again.com/soccterm.asp

The search term I used was "soccer terms".

Dribbling is just running and making a series of little kicks to keep the ball quite close. Therer needn't be an opponent.

What you describe I would simply call "beating" but there may be a more technical term. Like "sidestepping", though that seems more to do with rugby.

Beating or passsing are the usual ones. Skinning him if the opponent is really huniliated by it. If the player with the ball puts it through the opponents legs and continues the other side - that's a nutmeg. Difficult to do but really good when it comes off.

dom64 wrote:Beating or passsing are the usual ones. Skinning him if the opponent is really huniliated by it. If the player with the ball puts it through the opponents legs and continues the other side - that's a nutmeg. Difficult to do but really good when it comes off.

I would have to agree with this.

Therefore, you could hear a commentator say something along the lines of "He passed so-and-so with a sidestep."

Although I have never heard a commentator use the word "nutmeg"

Yeah, nutmeg is a bona fide technical term in soccer which means you have put the ball through the opposing player's leg and run past him and collected the ball. Very hard to do. Otherwise going past the player is simply going past, can't think of a specialised word or phrase.