Soccer Formations - An overview

Formations – An overview "Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better. " – Bill Shankly Formations, put simply, are a description of how the players on the pitch are positioned. These formations are altered as and when teams... More

Formations – An overview "Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better. " – Bill Shankly Formations, put simply, are a description of how the players on the pitch are positioned. These formations are altered as and when teams are more defensive or offensive and are used at every level of the game from the greatest leagues in Europe to Kids soccer up and down the country in order to get a sense of organization and structure to a teams play. Historically, the game of association football ( or soccer as we know it ) was a game that had little or no organization. It was a game in which a pass to a team mate was deemed “ not the done thing “ ( who knows what Mr Guardiola would have thought of that? ) and a game that was just basically all out individual attack with little if any regard for defense or team mates. As the years went by however, the game became more organized and teams began to use more structured measures in order to beat their opponents. Fo Less