The Coverage in Football

The Coverage in Football

The coverage is a technical defensive action that many authors define of the following way: "To be in situation to help a companion who can be exceeded by the adversary "(Varela, J. 2011).

The coverage takes place, when the player who realizes it is behind his companion, whom they are going to exceed, once it is exceeded, the player realizes the coverage doing an entry to the player rival or simply it supports a defensive passive position waiting for the help of another companion.

The coverage is a defensive action, but not only it is realized by the defenders, all the players have to to be able to apply it, since it is a necessary action to recover the ball.

To realize a good coverage qualities are needed as the good placement in the field, good vision of game, intuition, speed and to give many attention to the development of the game.

This technical skill is very easy to train, simultaneously that is very necessary, since in the matches it is necessary in many moments. It is possible to train of analytical form first, moving her then to a more global training. It is important that one trains the children from small in order that they acquire defensive discipline, effort and defensive, very important concepts for his future.

Bibliography:

http://www.futbolfacilisimo.com/2011/05/cobertura.html