The main joints in action are the fingers, wrist, elbows, shoulders. It is a fact however that the whole skeletal frame is used to transmit the energy to the these areas to move the ball.
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Your Knee and ankle joints to point the toes...
Then there are most of the various joints between the bones of the feet and toes to maximize the pointing of the foot or functions and alignments for 'turning' of the ball, in many cases...
But in fact, most joints in the mid-section of the body and the upper appendages and body parts are also operative - even if they are not directly responsible for making contact with the ball, they allow efficiency and counter forces within the body.
If you kick a soccer ball with your foot, you use the bones in your foot. They are: talas, metatarsal, calcaneus, and phalanges.
The hip joint is one of the joints used when kicking a ball. The knee joint, ankle joint, and the joints in the toes are all used when you kick a ball.
The joints involved in kicking a ball are the hip joint, knee joint, and ankle joint.