Offensive Play Styles

The Collective Game
The Concepts of Collective Play
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The game to be developed by a team is determined by the offensive and defensive styles of play it uses.

  • Short/control, ASSOCIATIVE/POSITIONAL style: It is characterized by manifesting:
    • Mostly satin game.
    • Short touches/passes (15-20 m).
    • Quick play (one technical touch or two "tactical touches").
    • Constant support to the ball holder.
    • Balance and relationship in and between lines.
    • Triangulations.
    • Zone exits (to create numerical superiority and/or take advantage of free spaces).
    • The three phases of the offensive game (start, progression and end).

We understand that the short-game style is the most suitable for a correct training process, despite the difficulties involved. Until a good mastery and precision of the aspects of the short game is achieved, good results do not begin to be obtained (an aspect that conditions the attitudes of the environment -parents -, managers, the players themselves, etc.).

The short style of play is the only one that allows us to increase the efficiency/performance of our offensive and defensive game by improving the control of the game and the ball, and therefore the only one that justifies a work with objectives of constant improvement (both in a training process and in the maximum performance).

  • Style in long/depth/DIRECT: It is characterized by manifesting:
    • Long movements of the ball.
    • Direct search for the end zone.
    • Start of the offensive game by taking directly from goal or the goalkeeper in long.
    • Very fast attack actions, performed in a few touches and with a great sense of depth, whether they end in a shot or not.
    • Its use is justified to carry it out in the face of collective defenses of forward pressure.
  • Style with Changes of orientation and rhythm ("From SHORT to LONG"): It is characterized by manifesting: 
    • Characteristic aspects of short and long play styles, combining short actions with long, "controlled" displacements, to take advantage of the free spaces created in the areas opposite the location of the ball.
  • Style of play to "media": When the pressure of the opponent in our sub-phase of Start is done with individual markings to our defensive lines, probably our line of means will have numerical superiority which allows the goalkeeper to throw a ball to the player free of this line.
The Collective Game
The Concepts of Collective Play
Defensive Play styles Positional Attack Counterattack and Rapid Attack Competition Units (UC) UC Offensive Phase Subphases of the Offensive Phase UC Defensive Phase Subphases of the Defensive Phase The Game Situations (SJ) The Defense-Attack Transition The Attack-Defense Transition The Play Area The Game System The Space and Time Factors Play from the zone (outside it) Changes of Orientation in collective play (CO) The Retreat The Slogans of the Collective Game Errors in the game Error Analysis Factors that prevent correct decision making Match Control (Statistical data) Concept of Opportunity (Opportune Moment) Game Levels Basics to access Game Level A Sports intelligence Talent Being or Not being in the Game/Ball Orientation Rhythm of Play Changes of Pace in the Collective Game Play two tactical touches Types of Control in the Collective Game Performance Concepts Execution Speed Darken Pass Line Emergency Support / Play in Safety Active, Passive or Real Opposition Interception Line The Offensive Provision (OJ) Game System Movements (MSJ)