skills techniques tactics by Harry mattison

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Volleys

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a volley is a shot or kick executed by striking the ball while it is still in the air, before it has touched the ground. It is performed by Locking your ankle, toe straight down and strike the middle to upper middle part of the ball. This keeps the ball going straight or downward. Strike underneath the ball and it will go up.

Heading

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Heading in football is the technique of controlling the ball with the head to pass,shoot,or clear it.To perform a header, players keep their eyes on the ball, make contact with the middle of their forehead, and use their whole body to snap back and then forward through the ball, using a follow-through for accuracy.

Tiki-Taka

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A style of play characterized by constant, short, passing and movement, exemplified by teams like Barcelona under Pep Guardiola, aiming to control possession and move the ball through the opponent's lines.

Parking the bus

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a defensive tactic where a team, often when facing a stronger opponent, deploys almost all of their players deep in their own half to create a compact, impenetrable defensive line.

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Discrete

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•Discrete skills have a definite beginning and end. In order for the skill to be repeated it must start again.

•e.g. a penalty in soccer or hockey.

Serial

40097997_1 — 2025-09-11 10:08:47 UTC

•serial skills are where a number of discrete skills are put together to form a whole action.

•These skills usually have a set order in which they are performed

•e.g. triple jump

Continuous

40097997_1 — 2025-09-15 07:48:00 UTC

•continuous skills do not have a clear start and finish. The end of one cycle is the beginning of the next

• the movement skill has to be repeated several times to be meaningful

E.g. swimming and running