Football Tactics, 6, Consecutive direct passes

Two examples of consecutive direct passes are investigated. One is of FC Barcelona, and another is Japan national team. Distances and speeds of the consecutive direct passes are estimated with printed images, a pencil, and a ruler. Travel times of them are manually checked with a stopwatch in slow playback. As results, roughly, the traveling times are from 0.5 seconds and 1 second, the distances are from 2 m to 12 m, and the speed ranges from 4 m/s to 16 m/s.

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Quantitative analysis, examples of the consecutive direct passes

2.1 Measurement methods

2.2 FC Barcelona

2.3 Japan national team

2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Discussion, elements of consecutive direct passes

Chapter 4 Suggestion, how to move for consecutive direct passes

4.1 3vs1 ball possession

4.2 Two players moving on a triangle

4.3 Tracing a circle in contact with a triangle

4.4 Movement from outside of a triangle