Gary Fixter Soccer Tactics

Gary Fixter- Tactics

The tactic is all those actions of attack and defense that can be carried out to surprise (fight) or counter (neutralize) the opponents during the game, while the ball is in play. There are two types of collective and individual tactical actions.

Gary Fixter Collective tactical actions

Basic concepts:

* Balance between lines and players within the lines.

* Movement of players without the ball.

* Concentration.

All these concepts are reflected in different moments of games such as: defense, attack and the transitions attack-defense and defense-attack. Defensive Tactical Principles

We call defensive tactical principles all those tactical and strategic actions that a team can develop when the rival team is in possession of the ball.

The different principles are:

* Markings: Those actions carried out by the players of a team without possession of the ball with respect to their opponents. We find two types of markings:

    * Individual marking: they can be done to men, by zones or mixed.

    * Collective marking: you can carry out combined marking, coverage (with colleagues), swaps (with colleagues) and pressing.

* Withdrawals: they are backward movements made by the players of a team that lost possession of the ball in their offensive action, returning as quickly as possible to the areas or missions directed by the coach, in order to organize their defense in the form faster and more suitable.

* Coverages: this situation is considered as an aid that is carried out on a partner that the opponent can overflow.

* Exchanges: it is carried out when an overflowed player tries, as quickly as possible, to occupy the place left by the teammate who, in his aid, goes out to meet the opponent.

* Unfolding: they are a series of actions that allow, above all, not to lose the rational occupation of the field of play, covering or occupying the back of the offensive teammate when he loses the ball, returning it to take the place of the teammate who helped him.

* Permanent aids: are those favorable solutions that are presented to the player who owns the ball.

* Surveillance: are the evolutions made by the players of a team when they are not in possession of the ball, on their opponents, not showing any type of marking. Surveillance is carried out occupying areas that, although they do not have the presence of opposing players, should not be left uncovered due to their importance.

* Timings: we call them as slow actions made with cunning during the game to obtain some kind of advantage (tactically speaking) from the team that performs them.

* Entry: action taken by a player to remove the ball from an opponent when the opponent is in possession.

* Charge: action carried out by a player on the opponent pushing with the body (according to regulations) when the player is in possession of the ball or tries to seize it.

* Anticipation: It is the physical-mental action that the defender performs on the attacker who expects to receive the ball, going ahead and trying to receive the ball before the rival.

* Interception: It is the action carried out b