Skill and Strategies of Soccer and the Instructional Strategies/Drills

Skills and Strategies of Soccer
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Skills and Strategies of Soccer
Several fundamental skills and strategies are essential for every soccer player's development. A player must pick up the ball and keep the team efficient during a competitive game. The most effective way in acquiring these skills is through a high level of repetition. Football players must learn essential skills and awareness to succeed in competitive games. Ball control, dribbling, passing, attacking, and defending are critical soccer skills to hone. Tactical awareness involves knowing one's role and being able to have a position on the pitch while demonstrating the competence to make good and effective choices (Flaherty, 2018).
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The primary soccer skills can be summarized as game intelligence, technique, physique maintenance, and proper mindset (ERTHEO, 2016). Game intelligence includes tactical awareness and spatial or positional awareness (ERTHEO, 2016). Game intelligence is determined by the player's ability to make intelligent field decisions at high speed. A brilliant footballer aims to ensure a clean game, reducing energy consumption and maximizing results. Game intelligence means playing more intelligently rather than harder (ERTHEO, 2016). One way of nurturing game intelligence is by training over the year with different players and coaching staff. That allows players to acquiesce with various viewpoints and broaden their strategies.
Tactical awareness
It refers primarily to a football player who possesses the competence to make effective choices during a football match. According to Bayer's action principles, tactical contexts in soccer can be set out (Bayer, 1992).  The principles of action in the attack include maintenance of possession, penetration of the defense (going towards the goal), and attacking. In protection, the principles of activity include the recovery of ball possession and the prevention of opposition advances (Villora, 2013). In instances where the game context involves defense penetration, the player must act to get nearer to the goal, for example, pushing the ball towards the goal, or handing off the ball to a player nearer to the destination (Gutiérrez et al., 2011). The inverse applies when the game context shifts to defense. Tactical awareness can be accomplished through group exercises which build up this skill and compel players in game-like situations to make flawless snap decisions (Flaherty, 2018).
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Taking three attackers to the goal against two defenders can be great tactical practice. The attacking team can start every rehash 25 yards away from the plan. They start playing and try to score on the coach's signal while the two defensive players stop them.  The soccer coach could use this training to teach players when to dribble and make a cross pass to a teammate. In this exercise, deciding when to clear a shoot is also trained (Flaherty, 2018).
Positional awareness
Whether a defense player or an attacker, soccer players should be aware of their role in the field. Their position notwithstanding, all football players should be appositionally and tactically aware of offering a way through when a teammate has the ball.  Whenever defending, the football player must press the ball if they happen to be the closest defender, thus effectively providing a defensive balance (Flaherty, 2018).
Intelligent players always know where their fellow players are and where they should be based on the other team's positioning. There are two reasons why they need and should be aware of where their mates are: telling them where they ought to be if they are not in position and anticipating the status of their fellow players so that they make quick, intuitive passes. Smart players know the game geometry exceptionally well.  They understand how to create wide angles, create easy chances for themselves while on the offensive, and narrow tips and challenging opportunities for the attacking team when on defense (Flaherty, 2018).
Instructional Strategies/Drills
Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1 Source: Sports Session Planner
In this image, players are divided into two teams in a constricted space of about 20 by 30 yards. One group works on attacking two small goals while the other team attacks the goalkeeper's broader purpose. This exercise enables close play in constricted spaces. It also trains quick decision-making and accurate finishing.
Risk assessment
Some aggressive decisions might lead to a loss of possession. Every team member has to expend extra energy until the team regains control whenever possession is lost. Such bold choices might result in energy over-expenditures and an inability to perform well. On the other hand, a total failure to make aggressive decisions to maintain possession to save energy could affect the team’s ability to scores and eventually result in a loss (ERTHEO, 2016). The technique may be the most evident element in football success. Good football technique has four key features. Building this technique involves repetitive drills, specially curated to each specific process (ERTHEO, 2016).
Ball control
Ball Control pertains to a player's ability, with the help of feet, legs, chest, and head, to acquire the ball and control it.  It also refers to a player’s ability to maintain possession of the ball and protect it successfully from opposing players. The ability to turn sharply and rapidly while in control of the ball is a crucial element of ball control achieving overall success as a footballer (ERTHEO, 2016).
Dribbling skills 
Dribbling skills relate to a player's ability to weave through the playing field with total ball control. A player who has excellent dribbling skills can get both feet to move the ball in various directions. They can maneuver successfully without giving up ball possession to the opponents.  Superb dribbling skills for football players of all positions are essential to footballing success (ERTHEO, 2016).
Passing Accuracy
It refers to players' ability to use their two feet to kick the ball to their desired target. That could involve passing the ball directly to the feet of a teammate with strength and accuracy, transferring the ball with proper weight into space or crossing the ball precisely into the goal, or shooting the ball concisely and powerfully into the net. Unless players can pass with their two feet accurately, players cannot achieve footballing success (ERTHEO, 2016).
Body Control and Coordination
Body control is a player's ability to move their body smoothly to optimize balance and harmony.  Because body control does not fall under physical fitness but somewhat under the technical category, body control refers mainly to form correctness. Long strides, correct running form, and low gravity center are reasonable indic...