Soccer (Football) Tactics

The soccer (football) is very interesting kind of team sport which requires certain skills, knowledge and abilities from the players. There are many individual skills and team tactics that allow to play effectively the soccer and win the matches.

The soccer tactics can be divided on two large groups:

• Offensive tactics: attacking and in set pieces,
• Defensive tactics.

The group of the offensive tactics attacking includes:

• Pass and move
• Give and go (or combination passing)
• Switching the attack
• Through ball (slide rule pass)
• Long through ball
• The hole
• Triangular movement
• Swapping of the wing men
• Strong Side Overloads
• Using a target man

The offensive tactics in pieces are:

• Free-kicks
• Throw-ins
• Goal-kicks
• Corners

The group of the defensive tactics includes:

• First, second and third defender
• The zone defence
• Depth considerations
• The man-to-man defence
• Defending at set pieces:
• Free-kicks from short range
• Corner kicks and other cresses
• Penalty kicks
• "Forward" versus "collapsing" defences
• Defending with the ball

It’s very convenient to explain the offensive and defensive tactics using the visual drawings. If you need to do this more than once you have to choose an appropriate tool allows you to create and change the diagrams simply and quickly. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with the Soccer Solution is the best choice for you.

Sample 1. The Pitch Throw-ins, Goal-Kicks, Corners

To quick and easy draw the diagrams with soccer (football) tactics, use the "Soccer (Football) Fields" and "Soccer (Football) Positions" libraries from the Soccer solution from the Sport area of ConceptDraw Solution Park and follow the next steps:

• From the "Soccer (Football) Fields" library drop a field object to your document;
• From the "Soccer (Football) Positions" library drop all positions object you need to your document;
• Place positions on the field according to your drawing idea;
• Add arrows or text labels if needed.

Sample 2. Soccer (Football) Offside

The samples you see on this page were created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the vector objects from the Soccer Solution libraries. They show the soccer (football) tactics. These samples demonstrate the solution's capabilities and the professional results you can achieve. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating every of these samples.

All source documents are vector graphic documents. They are available for reviewing, modifying, or converting to a variety of formats (PDF file, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and many other graphic formats) from the ConceptDraw STORE. The Soccer Solution is available for all ConceptDraw DIAGRAM or later users.