MODULE 4.02 OBJECTIVES FOR TAKING POSSESSION OF THE BALL / SOCCER-SPECIFIC TRAINING II

Question 1

Objectives for taking possession of the ball:

Answer 1

• The ball is ours, we can’t lose it.
• The importance of everyone enjoying playing.
• Location, trajectories, and profiles of the players on the field.
• The sense of possession and protection of the ball.
• The mobility of players without the ball (and if they are possible receivers).
• Precision (technical aspect, pass and control) and rhythm of

the ball in associative and combination play.

• Triangulation of play from the inside players.
• Alternative plays (short and long; outside and inside; far pass).
• Attract to change the orientation of the game.
• Maintain communication between the possessor and potential recipients.
• Review individual and collective concepts.

Question 2

Objectives to recover the ball:

Answer 2

• If the ball is lost, recover it as soon as possible.
• Place yourself in positions to obstruct passing lines.
• Maintain a collective sense of recovery of the ball.
• Perceive intervention distances and help each other in recovery.
• Avoid inside play by covering neutral players.
• Group together while waiting for the right moment for collective action.
• Reduce the possessor’s space-time.
• Use profiles that keep the pressure on the possessor.
• Maintain entry signals and criteria (1-on-1).

Question 3

The position game allows a series of registers that facilitate the

appearance of free men and the most important superiorities.

Some of these characteristics are:

Answer 3

• In the beginning of the game, the centrals are widely separated from each other
• Lavolpiana exit, where a midfielder is embedded between the

two centrals, especially in cases where the rival presses with two points

• The wingers stretch to midfield watching out not to mount, but if

they overcome the rival interiors in position so that a teammate’s

pass allows to eliminate rivals

• The midfielder who comes to assist at the start moves laterally

to the central player with the ball.

• The interiors, called “men between the lines”, dominate the records

of the position game, separate from their opponent, attack the

backs of the rival that marks them and will never take the ball

from their teammates, aware that this attracts rivals

• The sides and ends are always very open, aware that this

allows the appearance of interior corridors, passes inside that

are essential in the position game since they facilitate

the appearance of free men and superiorities to the back

• The ball does not move to move, but the movement from side

to side is done to move the opponent, to gather rival players

• No one gives passes to give. Passing has a meaning: eliminating rivals.

If this is not possible, the players keep the ball or drive

it looking for rivals to jump.