[header] How to do a throw in soccer [title] Pick up the ball with both hands, one on each side of the ball. [step] Your hands should be roughly evenly spaced--if the ball was a clock, your right hand would be at 3:00 and your left at 9:00. It can help to shift them back a bit, too, so your thumbs are almost touching in the back of the ball. 
This helps you get a bit more leverage on the throw. [substeps] Throw-ins only occur when the whole ball passes over one of the sidelines.