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Under the moniker "Zonal Marking with Michael Cox", he has regularly contributed to The Guardian [6] and ESPN. [7] Cox has written about his coining of the term "inverted winger" in 2010, to describe football managers selecting right-footed wingers on the left, and vice-versa, which has since passed into football-tactics parlance.
Reep's work has been heavily criticised by, among others, the writer Jonathan Wilson.Wilson points out that Reep's analysis shows that 91.5% of moves in the games he studied had three passes or fewer and that logically, this would mean that 91.5% of all goals should come from moves with three passes or fewer.
His book, "Angels with Dirty Faces" won "Best Football Book" and "Best Historical Book" at the Polish Sports Book Awards (Sportowa Książka Roku) in 2018. [11] The Names Heard Long Ago won "Best Foreign Football Book" at the awards in 2023. [12] He won FSA Football Writer of the Year in 2012, 2017, 2021 and 2024. [13] [14]
The primary goal of the offense is to score points. [1] To achieve this, coaches and players design and execute plays based on several factors: the players involved, the opponent's defensive strategy, the time remaining before halftime or the end of the game, and the number of points needed to secure a win.
Team tactics as well as individual skills are integral for playing association football. In theory, association football is a very simple game, as illustrated by Kevin Keegan's namely assertion that his tactics for winning a match were to "score more goals than the opposition". Tactical prowess within the sport is nonetheless a craftsmanship of ...
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Anti-football" is a playing style in association football that emphasizes a highly defensive and aggressive approach, relying mainly on passing and involving the deployment of all team members except the striker behind the ball. The goal of the tactic is to prevent the opposing team from scoring, rather than pursuing an offensive strategy to ...
Fantasy football analyst Scott Pianowski delivers the Week 17 traffic report with his green-light, yellow-light and red-light plays of the week.