Altitude Of A Triangle In Football

Learning Outcomes

1. Triangles help and may improve the short-passing game because players can position themselves using a common idea so their game will be faster and may be more spectacular as they know where their teammates are.
2. This improves their decision-making and their forward-thinking. Short-passing game is a requirement for every youth team and every youth team player and it is a good idea to teach the players through triangles.

Description Of Activity

How to Play

Triangles are the most commonly used shapes in soccer and these appear almost everywhere on the soccer pitch. Triangles consist of three edges and three vertices so it is easy to imagine for soccer players starting from younger age. This is why triangle shapes are easier to teach than any other shapes.

Triangles in attack

1. If the pitch is divided into zones (rectangles) then every player has the chance to position themselves into a different zone. This will create triangles and options for diagonal passing. This is how most of the youth teams get forward as this requires fast thinking and future vision from the players.
2. As we discussed, triangles have three roles and this appears in attack, too.
3. There is a Pressure player who is now the player on the ball.
4. He is helped by a Cover player who is the nearest teammate and must be able to be played (even if it is a passing option backwards).
5. Then there is the Balance player in the triangle who is the destination player. He should be the player that is going to have the ball to get forward.

 

Variations

Circular arrangement in dodge ball game will be replaced by Triangle of required size.

Coaching Tips

Make the size of triangles as per the requirement.

Equipment/Material Required

Chalk Powder for marking the Boundary of different triangles and a Football.