AO2 footbal (games based sport)

Skills

The more important a skill is depends on where the player is playing. There are many skills involved in football. These skills help you score and stop goals.

The basic skills in football are:

Passing: If you can pass you have a better chance of holding position and you can gradually go forward and score.

Shooting: If you can shoot then your team has a better chance of scoring.

 

Heading: Heading is mainly for defenders and corners; you have to be able to head the ball into the goal, and out of your own area.

Throwing. Throwing is for throw on; this is when the ball is out of the pitch and the team that didn’t kick it off gets to throw the ball to one of their team mates. You need to be able to throw, so you can get the ball far away to some one who is on your team.

Dribbling: You need to be able to dribble so you can get past other players. You could do step over, three sixty, out run your opponent, there are lots of skills involved in dribbling.

Running: Running is part of dribbling, you need to be able to run past other players or run to get the ball from opposite teams’ players.

Diving and catching for goal keepers. Goal keepers need to be able to catch the ball so it doesn't go into the goal, and they need to be able to catch if a corner is coming in. Goal keepers also need to be able to dive, this is because if the opposite team is taking a penalty the goal keeper needs to be able to dive and catch the ball.

If you are a defender you need to be able to:

Jump, Head the ball, accelerate with the ball, be agile and have lots of stamina. These skills are important because they are the basic skills a defender needs.

If you are a midfielder you would need to be able to do all types of skills, because midfielders have to attack and defend.

If you were a striker the most important skill you would need is to shoot and score.

Technique:

For passing you need to be able to pick out players that are not marked and see players who are making runs for the ball. Passing is very important because it makes the ball progresses and gives you possession of the ball. Before you can make a pass you need to be able to control a pass, you can do this by wrapping your feet around the ball when it comes to you, you can also cushion the ball so it doesn't get away from you.

The technique you use for shooting is to point one of your feet where you want the ball to go then position your body the correct way and shoot. You can do this technique if you are about to take a free kick, but when the ball instantly comes to you and you do not have time for that you have to look up first to see where the goal is and where you want the ball to go, then you look down to see if your feet are positioned the proper way then you shoot but making sure your body position and your feet are in the direction you want to shoot and you keep on looking at the ball incase it doesn't go in, and you have to be prepared for any rebound.

Heading: the technique you use for heading is bringing your head back and then push forward, this makes the ball go in the direction you want it to go, but you have to place your head in the direction to.

Dribbling: there are various techniques for dribbling but I am going to talk about step over, the first point you need to remember about step over is you are trying to trick the defender so you have to use your body weight. You have to bring your foot round the ball the first time and shift your body weight, this makes the defender think you are going the way your body is moving to, and then you push away the ball to the opposite direction.

Diving: diving is only for goal keepers; it’s basically jumping to save the ball.

Tactics

Tactic is structuring how certain people are going to play and where they are going to play in a football match. For example, if a team is slow then you know to put your fast players on and they should play on the wide, this way you are targeting the opposition teams’ weaknesses weakness.

You can also find the strength and weakness of other teams. Professional teams watch videos of their next opponent. They do this to find out the team’s strength and weakness. This then helps them know how to play well against them.

Strategies

 

The strategies are how the manager wants the whole team to play. So if your opponent is not a good team, team then your strategies would be to attack and don't give them the ball, but the tactic for different players would be to attack from the wide. And that is the difference.