The Feint

The Feint

In spanish we said: La Finta. The feint is a mechanism of deception that has as aim that the adversary thinks that we are going to do something that is not our real intention.

The feint is a fundamental element in offensive actions, therefore it turns into a very important action at the moment of adversaries overflow or to gain advantage with regard to one o more. 

The accomplishment of good feints has narrow relation with the agility of movements and with the vision of game. The feint is a basic complement of the football player technically endowed, and great good more in the current football in the one that is very difficult to find a meter of free space with what any small deception can facilitate an advantage to us very to bearing in mind.

To realize this skill is important to have a wide technical base, simultaneously that has to have a great speed in the movements and a great precision on having realized them.

To train this skill in low categories it is necessary to to train in a progressive way and having patience great on the part of the trainer, since there will be players for whom it goes out in a natural way and others for which it costs them more since it is a quality difficult to learn, but very importantly since since it has been said it will allow us to obtain advantage against our adversaries. Very importantly in situations of one against one.

There are many differents kinds of feints:

-Feint for a driblle, is to say, with a movement of the body, even of the eyes, the adversary is unbalanced towards the side that is wished, to overcome him for the opposite side.

- Feint to facilitate that a teamate receives a ball, with a gesture or movement there is facilitated that a teamate receives the ball in better position.

- Feint before receiving the ball with the aim to be deceptive to the scoreboard and to be done by the ball in a profitable position.

Bibliography:

http://www.campusdeportivo.com/formaciondeportiva/cursos/ARCHIVOS%20DE%20TECNICA/INDIVIDUAL/finta.asp

http://coaching-deporte.com/2011/02/la-tecnica-en-el-futbol-las-habilidades-tecnicas-basicas/