A Concept Every Soccer Coach Should Know - A Simple Way to Improve Your Soccer Defense All Over the Field - First Defender/ Second Defender. The information below is from soccerhelp/ and from SoccerHelp Premium at soccerhelp/members/login . Links are below - When your opponent has the ball, the player who is closest to the ball must be the First Defender and must bring Pressure on the ball. The First Defender must pressure the ball and try to slow down the attack and not allow shots or dangerous passes. Over 50% of goals are scored when there is a lack of pressure on the ball. The second closest player (or players) must be the Second Defender(s) and back up the First Defender and stay between the ball and the goal. There can be more than one Second Defender. The Second Defender(s) should stay about 5 to 7 steps behind the First Defender - The distance behind depends on where the ball is on the field - closer together if the ball is in your Defensive Third (5 steps or even closer inside your Penalty Box) but farther apart if the ball is in your Attacking Third (7 to 10 steps). If the ballhandler gets by the initial First Defender, then the Second Defender closest to the ball should become the First Defender. (If there isnt a Second Defender behind the new First Defender, the initial defender should drop back to help the defender who was backing him up). As soon as the ball is lost, your team should quickly transition from offense to defense; the closest player should become the First Defender the next one or two closest should become the Second Defender(s) and all the rest should Shift and Sag with the ball, maintaining their Relative Positions (see soccerhelp/terms/soccer-relative-positions.shtml ). What this means is to Shift with the ball so they are generally between the ball and your goal and sag back to create multiple layers of defenders (which is called Depth). There are 2 rules that you can use to teach your players how to Shift and Sag on defense so they dont bunch up or get out of their relative position: (1). When on Defense, the left-side and right-side players (e.g., the LMF and RMF or LFB and RFB) should not go past the Center of the Field (an imaginary line between the 2 goals). (2). When on Defense, dont go past a teammate unless it is an emergency and never go past two teammates. (This rule is for when a typical youth team is on defense - they dont apply to when a team is on offense because more creativity is allowed on offense). If you are a Premium subscriber, How to Teach First Defender/Second Defender is at soccerhelp/premium/Quick_Team_Improvement.shtml#3 and How to Teach Players to Shift and Sag and a Basic Zone Defense is at soccerhelp/premium/Quick_Team_Improvement.shtml#4 For more see Support (soccerhelp/terms/soccer-support.shtml ) , what I call Shift and Sag (soccerhelp/terms/soccer-shift-and-sag.shtml ), Support Distance & Relative Positions (soccerhelp/terms/soccer-support-distance-and-relative-position.shtml ), First Attacker/ Second Attacker/Third Attacker (soccerhelp/terms/soccer-first-attacker.shtml ), First Defender/Second Defender/Third Defender (read about this atsoccerhelp/terms/soccer-support.shtml ), on defense, you ideally want Multiple Layers of Defenders between the ball and your goal (soccerhelp/terms/soccer-multiple-layers-of-defenders.shtml ).
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:40:16 +0000
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