Fremont YSC, Player Profiles: Striker

We Have The Ball:

• Stretches the field.

Why?

1. To Create space.
2. To pull away defenders.
3. To allow the team to have an outlet if deep inside own half.

 

• Occupies the opponent’s defensive unit.

Why/How?

1. Play on the opponent’s defensive line.
2. Play off the defensive line’s shoulders, looking to make runs in behind.
3. Keeps defenders from stepping into the midfield.
4. Tying up a defender will help create open space for your teammates.

 

• Mobility into the outside channels.

Why/How?

1. To make diagonal runs into open space in the wide areas of the field.
2. To not only play vertically, to also play horizontally, in order to find space and passing lanes.
3. If an opponent’s full back gets forward, look for the open space left behind them to receive the ball.

 

• Ability to hold up play.

Why/How?

1. To shield the ball away from the opponents.
2. 1st touch is tight to your body, looking to keep the ball.
3. To allow teammates to move up the field.
4. To create an outlet for your team in order to progress up the field, when in deep areas of your own half.

 

• Makes runs behind opponent’s defensive unit.

Why/How?

1. To create a nightmare for defenders to mark.
2. To get into open spaces.
3. Play off the opponents’s shoulder and time your runs.

 

• Provides outlet.
  

Why/How?

1. To not drop off deep when the ball  is in your defensive half.
2. If you do not stay forward up the field, then your team will not have an outlet for them to get up the field, into opponent’s half.
3. Find’s gaps and seems, which will allow team to get the ball forward.
4. Constantly scanning the field.

 

• Goal scorer.

Why/How?

1. To have composure in front of goal.
2. To take advantage of shooting opportunities in and around the penalty box.
3. To be able to finish using all surfaces. (Shot, header, volley, pass).
4. To be confident.

 

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They Have The Ball

• Cut off angle of opponent’s attack.

Why?

1. To cut out the wide pass.
2. Force players to the middle of the field into supporting players.
3. Make play predictable.

 

• Collective action to high press.

Why?

1. To press as a team so that we do not open up dangerous spaces in the middle of the field, or in between units.
2. To make play predictable.

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Being a Fremont YSC Withdrawn Striker:

• Stretches the field.
• Occupies the opponent’s defensive unit.
• Mobility into the outside channels.
• Ability to hold up play.
• Makes runs behind opponent’s defensive unit.
• Provides outlet.
• Goal Scorer.
• Cut off angles of opponent’s attack.
• Collective action to high press.