How Football Actually Works

How Football Actually Works

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The game of football can be divided, split, and broken down into many elements. But as a team, there are certain passages of play you will always encounter.

In this video, we will explain the 10 categories of phases of play; In-possession, out of possession, transitions, and set-pieces.

Explained by Eric Laurie. Illustrated by Philippe Fenner.

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50 Comments

  1. This is a great video I’ve used it twice now to help get people into soccer. Once with a 61 year old man and the other with elementary school kids. Both thought it was super cool and now have developed an interest in following this great game. Thank you for all the great content!

  2. Apart from high, mid and low block defending, we at Manchester United deploy another form of defending, called Very Low block defending aka one man defending, where only Goal keeper has defensive responsibilities.

  3. I have played football all my life (and I’m pretty skilled at it) but I never quite understood modern football strategy like I do watching Tifo Football.

  4. ๐™„ ๐™›๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™—๐™–๐™ก๐™กโšฝ

  5. Cยดmon guys. The three offensive phases are not decided by the balls position on the pitch, but the balls position compared to the defending teams pres.

    Phase 1: When then ball is in front of the first defensive pressing line.
    Phase 2: When the ball is in front of the second defensive pressing line.
    Phase 3: When the ball is in front of the third defensive pressing line (or behind it)

    But else good stuff you guys are making.

  6. Talks about set-piecea being overlooked, then proceeds to overlook it and finish the video without explaining. Boss move ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

  7. So how come most teams just pass it around aimlessly and then passing all the way back to the goalie and basically only one pwrson is even moving half the time. Soccer ia so lazy now. Watching the euro its mostly just slowly passing round till someone gets bored enough to try something or maybe the odd counterttack

  8. to be honest: a very nice idea – football is such a part of my life that i never thought about how it must feel when you never heard about it before and now you will understand it

  9. Aaah this is beautiful. Love this hierarchical way of watching football. So helpful, wish you could turn it into a series, explaining more details in this simple format and language for Each phase. That would be wonderful. Thank you.

  10. Beyond didactics, this video can be sent to FIFA, in order to demonstrate that teams with the same color of shorts do not confuse who is watching.

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