Defending....
Well for those who've seen the movie, "Remember the TITANS" and in that, the defense when they played in the North Virginia Championship match in which they were being cheated out...thats how a defense should be..though its a fantasy defending like that..they did not even let the opponents take a yard on them from 11 yards out, it was the best piece of defense u can see in any game, though i dont understand head and tail of rugby, its a movie worth watching for sportsmen, damn u dont find anything better than that in defense in any game....
Well in footballing terms, the best defense is supposedly called as a water-leak defense(in literal terms, a defense which wouldn't even let water go past them...that's the way defending should be done for which in any football game, i feel a holding midfielder should be there, he should be the first line of defense, he should take the ball out of the approaching attacker...should cut the attackers down when they try to take a shot and should cover for a centre back(more ofthen than not) if centre back has gone out for cutting out or defending a run....this is what a holding midfielder must and should do...
Now as a central defender, he should sit there and defend like a wall, should protect his goalie during set pieces and should defend with his head...in a sense, he should use his head well and should ensure that there is no basic errors done in clearing, clearing should be long and high as any coach would let u guys know, it should be a simple long kick and one more thing a defender should know is when to go by the line and help out the goal and the last ditch defending...as an example: U can take John Terry, amazing defender, never lets his guard down and goes by the line as soon as he thinks Cech is not in a position to cover the entire length of the goal....thats the way defeneder should defend and have great communication with the goalie...
As a full-back...its easy, going up and down(just 2 say its easy, ask any full back he'd kill me if he reads this), its the most difficult and tedious job, going up while attacking and tracking back while defending and if a cross leads to a goal conceded...people will point to the full back and say he is too attack minded and when a team doesnt score, its because the full backs are not attacking and not delevering crosses....phew, ask a full back, he'll say his life is literal hell....but he'll enjoy every moment of it and ofcourse take the blame for it...no easy way for a full back, should lunge in 2 defend not like central defenders and should ensure no crosses come in and should attack....the problem lies when there is a counter attack when the full backs are attacking...thats when they need to track back complete length of that pitch and then throw his body for defense...its tough, but they do it and they succeed.....
The last and the most important thing in defending..believe in yerself that u could stop conceding a goal and ofcourse if u concede..know that yer attackers will pull back a goal for u and b cheerful!!!!
Monday, December 1, 2008
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i dunno a thing abt football except dat u kick a ball to play it, but u English is too good, n d way u describe is awesome
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