The Sunday News
Cosmas Zulu
I have to start by saying I wish all of you a happy new season. Zifa elections are over, it’s time the new board comes up with new ideas.
Ingredients of the success — type personality and how to acquire them just as a doctor learns to diagnose disease from certain symptoms, failure and success can also be diagnosed.
The reason is that a man does not simply find success or come to failure, he carries their seeds around in his personality and character.
New president of Zifa — Felton Kamambo — my advice to you, a good personality is one which enables you to deal effectively and appropriately with the environment and reality and to gain satisfaction from reaching goals which are important to you and the organisation you lead.
Good luck in the next four years to come.
Goal keeping
Of all the 11 individuals in a soccer team, the goalkeeper is the most important. If his performance is poor the team can lose matches on his own account.
If his performance is good he will give his teammates confidence and often inspire them to play above themselves.
It is therefore surprising that goalkeepers are so frequently neglected in coaching sessions, it is equally surprising that when they are given practice it is often in a goal marked by tracksuits or corner flags, perhaps the most incongruous sight of all is a goalkeeper defending small goals, a small Five-A-Side goal.
The first and primary task of a goalkeeper is to stop shots which are fired at his goal. There is not magic to goalkeeping, efficiency is based on correct technique.
Defending as an individual
All defending is concerned with decreasing the time, the space and the options an attacking player has to pass, dribble or shoot for goal.
To defend well as a team, it is proposed that players can defend well as individuals.
In addition to technical and tactical qualities, defenders must display the mental qualities of concentration patience and self- discipline, all players will find it necessary to challenge an opponent for the ball, sometimes during a game there are three possible objectives in challenging for the ball- preventing opponents from turning with the ball, keeping play in front of the defenders and forcing play in one direction.
Soccer terms to know?
-Ball watching – watching the ball to the exclusion of one’s opponent.
– Blind side – The opposite side of a defender to the ball.
– Checking – making a movement in one direction stopping and then moving off in the opposite direction.
– Control cushion – control of the ball by withdrawing the surface in contact with the ball on impact e.g. high ball.
– Control wedge – control of the ball with the use of a rigid surface e.g. the sole of the boot.
– Cross far post – a pass made to the area usually beyond the post furthest from the point from which the ball was kicked.
– Cross flank – a pass made from near to a touchline in the attacking third of field to area near to goal.
– Instep – The upper surface of the foot or boot e.g the laces.
– Goal side of the ball – position between the ball and the goal one is defending.
– Flight line of – applied to the trajectory of the ball.
– Flank – the area of the field within fifteen metres or so of the touchline.
– Lofted drive – a powerful kick with the instep through the bottom half of the ball.
– Marking man – To man: Marking a particular opponent in all the important defensive areas of the field.
– Pass flick – A pass made by an outward rotation of the kicking floor contact on the ball being made with outside of the foot.
Did you know?
In 1904 an association designed to represent the interest of International football was founded in Paris, the Federation of International Football Association of Fifa, as it was known initially, consisted of seven countries Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden.
One of its goals was to arrange a world championship.
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