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Football Tactics For Beginners
Football Tactics For Beginners
Total Football and it’s impact on the modern game
The popularism of the “Catennaccio” in the 1960s by Helenio Herrera was game-changing in that it focused its tenets on defending and the art...
Football Tactics For Beginners
Football Tactics for Beginners: The Low Block
What is the low block?The low block is generally referred to a football team's defensive shape without the ball. Generally the low block consists...
Coaching
Football Tactics for Beginners: Defending Corner Kicks
We are all afraid of it. It is the 90th minute, your team is up by one goal and the opposition is about to...
Bayern Munich
Football Tactics for Beginners- The Sweeper Keeper: From Lev Yashin to Manuel Neuer
Germany’s Manuel Neuer has been widely credited as one of the finest goal-keepers of his generation, and quite rightly too. The Bayern Munich shot-stopper...
Football Tactics For Beginners
The Diminishing role of the Stopper Center Back in the Premier League
Defending and its place in the modern game has spawned a quagmire of critical debate. Back in 2014, when Gary Neville’s article in the...
Football Tactics For Beginners
The art of the long throw and how to counter it
Since the dawn of time, mankind has yearned to to throw stuff really far. Rocks, spears, shapes in the night club, to be human...
Ac Milan
Football Tactics For Beginners-The Christmas Tree Formation
Football is a result oriented business. Whatever succeeds, earns fame for itself and for its conceiver. And if it captures the imagination of spectators...
Coaching
Football Tactics for Beginners: Tactical Periodization
What is Tactical Periodization?
Tactical Periodization is a coaching methodology which is used to train football players with respect to the tactical context of the...
Football Tactics For Beginners
Football Tactics for Beginners-Compactness
If you have the ball you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don’t have the ball you must make...
Barcelona
Football Tactics for Beginners- Juego de Posición
The main principle behind "Juego de Posición" is to always look for superiority on the football pitch. This superiority can be achieved by being...
Football Tactics For Beginners
Football Tactics for Beginners-The Regista
The rapid rise of the 4-2-3-1 formation over the past decade has seen the importance of the regista or the deep lying playmaker skyrocket....
Football Tactics For Beginners
Why does English football not trust Zonal Marking?
After many years of threatening to clamp down on excessive grappling from set-pieces, this season has seen Premier League referees penalise holding and shirt-pulling...
Football Tactics For Beginners
Football Tactics for Beginners: Multi-Functional Players
Introduction:In times gone by, multi-functional players may have been viewed less glamorously. No-one would wax lyrical about the right back who was able to...
Football Tactics For Beginners
Football Tactics for Beginners: Inverted Fullbacks
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A relatively unknown quantity, the inverted fullback position is typically used to combat wingers that like to cut inside to get involved in the...
Football Tactics For Beginners
Football Tactics for Beginners- The False Winger
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A relatively new one to the lexicon of the footballing world, the false winger is often associated with players that drift inside to make...
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Football Betting
Fun Bets to Make During a Football Game
There’s something magical about football. Whether it is the larger-than-life personas of the players, the excitement of the competitions, or the actual thrill of...
Arsenal
Fulham 0-3 Arsenal:Tactical Analysis – Willian, Gabriel superb in Arteta’s 3-4-3 formation
Lineups and Formation
FulhamFulham lined up in a 4-2-3-1. Rodak was preferred to new signing Areola in goal. The back 4 had Odoi (right), Bryan...
Classic
The European Resurrections of Ever Banega
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It seems fitting that Éver Banega’s final bow in European competition involved him lifting the Europa League. Barring a surprise reversal in the future,...
