Mnementh said:
Abun said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Abun said:
gamingpotato7 said:
You are clearly biased towards it. If you don't get it, you don't get it. It is one of the most skillful sports out there, unlike many of the ones you said. Each time a ball enters the goal it is an explosion of enthusiasm and a meaningful one at that since scoring goals is so rare. When a team scores many goals, people don't celebrate so much because they understand the value of a single goal in a 90 minutes match. It is the most popular sport in the world, not because people are poor so they can only play that. It is popular because it is extremely fun to play and a hugely passion driven game. Try to understand it better, and maybe it can be more fun than watching cards or bowling.
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For me personally I don't see how positions differ in Soccer except for the goalie.In football each position is different and key to success with plays that actually have to be set in order to score.It is the same for Basket Ball as not all players have the same skill set and the scoring is higher because it is a fast temo sport with a shorter distance to the hoop and you control the ball with your hands.The excitement is huge when a player hits a big time shot or the game is close as is with football.Fans also cheer for great defense in both sports.There is nothing like play off basket ball and football either as far as big games.
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Isn't that kind of a good thing though? There are clearly defined positions, but some systems allow much more freedom than others allowing players to roam around and take part in multiple phases of play. Players aren't locked in to doing just one job, they can do a whole lot more than that in both attack and defence and players changing positions is a commonly used tactic.
Plus it means any player on the pitch can be the one scoring the goals, teams don't have to be reliant on one player to score for them since anyone can do it, even goalies on occasion.
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Having specific positions helps the 3 sports.A player is usally better at one thing than trying to do all things.In basket ball you get a rare player like JeBron James who is good overrall so he gets more freedom and decides where the ball goes.Some players are limited due to their weiht or height.Football uses different body types,which only certain players can succeed at.Football is like chess with the QB being the queen and everyone else protecting the QB.Everyone can score in basket ball theretically,but not all players are good at scoring or good shooters.In football only eligble recievers can score including the QB and the defense can get a turn over and score.It works well for strategy and allows for players with different skill sets to contribute.
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The different positions exist for soccer, they only aren't set by the rules. At least you have players specialized in defense, middle field (important thing to create good situations) and attack. But in detail you have in modern professional soccer even more specialization in detail. There are even players that work mostly on the right or left side of the field. That the rules don't fix positions isn't meaning they aren't existant. You have to watch TV-broadcasts about soccer here, before the play starts there is a lot of discussion about the current positioning of the players. And again at half-time. But trainers have the freedom to choose their positional system, it gets names like 4-4-2. Look at this graph:
As you can see each position is named differently. That is one possible tactics to set positions. But trainers can decide a different tactics here. So there is even more freedom to change the tactics based on specific attributes of the players.
But be assured, a trainer who says all 10 field-players have the same assignment will fail in professional soccer.
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Interesting. I played as a child/adolescent in the US and all the teams had 1 Goalie, 2 Fullbacks (about where the Innen-verteidigers are), 3 half-backs (about where the Zentral Defensiver Mittelfeldspieler is but spread across the field) and 5 Forwards that almost exclusively stayed on the opposing side of the field.
Did that used to be a popular way to position or was it just a quirk of the youth league I played in?
