This seems to be particularly true for central midfielders as players such as Andrea Pirlo, Xabi Alonso and Michael Carrick are becoming a dying breed. These players, in different ways, are more valued in their teams for their technique and mental ability. As previously mentioned, the position which seems to have been most affected by an increased need for speed has been fullbacks. As the game has adapted to require a more attacking influence from fullbacks, pace is also an absolute essential to prevent being caught easily out of position.
Walker, Bellerin, Coleman, Valencia, Rose. Another current trend being wingers being encouraged to cut inside. This has also lead to fullbacks often being the widest players on the pitch and with all the ground they need to cover both getting crosses in the opposition box and attempting to block crosses into their own, it makes sense for speed to be a requirement. These players instead use their passing and positional ability to create chances for teammates and retain possession.
Ozil is often looking for the pace of Alexis Sanchez with his through balls. Every coach must strive to preserve and develop the speed of his football players. Running technique exercises, coordination, strength and endurance practicing, and explosiveness exercises are all the factors that can greatly affect speed and therefore should be something that is constantly worked on.
Appropriate exercises may prevent footballers from los ing pace at a fast rate. When you make your debut for the first team , your legs are fresh and you feel like you can run with the same intensity during the game.
The young er player is eager to prove himself and does his very best every second on the field. In his twenties, the footballer can still play most of the game at the top level, but he feels that it is not like that at the beginning of his senior career. Also, the football player feels that with each passing year , he moves harder and harder because his muscles, knees and joints wear out with time.
Already in his thirties, a football player prefers to play with the ball in his feet and keep his position on the field instead of roaming around. In those moments at the end of his career, there is already a lot of muscle consumption, so the player is much slower than before.
The legs have worn out a lot, so footballers in those years rely much more on the technical skills they possess , than on their speed. These are the so-called masters of football. Due to the reduced pace possessed by such players , as footballers lose pace with time , they move to positions that require less movement and running.
One such example is Francesco Totti, who revived his career at the age of 38 as a trekker. When footballers lose pace , they rely on their tremendous experience collected over the years.
Intelligence and reading of the game , with proper placement on the field allows them to make up for the lack of speed. We have the examples of Andrea Pirlo and John Terry who, relying on this, revived their careers in their late playing years. The loss of pace certainly affects the players who have relied on it the most during their careers.
That is why it is very important to constantly work on strength and endurance training. Players like Javier Zanetti or Daniele De Rossi are not affected by the loss of pace as much , because their main attributes in the game are their strength and endurance.
However, the importance of speed can best be seen in the example of Arjen Robben. For many years, he used the same feint that everyone knew about, and yet he always somehow succeed ed to beat his opponents. The pace he possessed, the pace of dribbling and movement enabled him to always pass around his opponents with his signature dribbling and it often ended with a goal. Another such example is Spanish football player F ernando Torres , who was one of the fastest players of his time.
His best footballing years were while playing for Liverpool and Atletico Madrid. However, the injuries caused the pace he possessed to slowly disappear, so the goals disappeared with it. While he was healthy, Radamel Falcao was a goal machine. He brought numerous trophies to clubs such as Porto and Atletico, where he played. However, the injuries caused him to become much slower, so he struggled for a long time to return to the level he was at before.
Alexandre Pato was a young star from Brazil who came to Milan at the age of only At the beginning of his career in Italy, he scored goals with ease and a bright future seemed to lie ahead. However, serious injuries slowed down the development of this player, separating him from the field for a long period of time. Over time, injuries caused him to lose pace and speed, which were the reason he easily escaped the opposing defensive players.
The pacey Brazilian, Robinho handled the ball so fast that he left the fans around the world breathless. His pace was impressive.
However, he had many injuries , so later he was just a shadow of a player who was considered a real magician on the field. He tried to revive his career but the loss of pace as with many footballers losing pace during their careers, did its thing. Too bad for all these fantastic players , from which much more was expected , but injuries took the price.
You must be logged in to post a comment. For all of football's tactical and technical innovation, pace remains the great leveller.
Fans are roused by it while defenders are supposedly terrified of it, leading to their own dedicated sub-section of phrases to describe its effect on them.
Pace gives them a torrid time; it roasts them, turns them inside out, destroys them and worst of all, it exposes them. The only time such a simple concept becomes a little confusing is when players are deemed to have "real" or "genuine" pace.
They seem like unnecessary qualifiers but serve to distinguish these players from the Mesut Ozils and Dimitar Berbatovs of this world, whose pace is described as "deceptive. Even in , when we're supposed to be enlightened enough to appreciate a pass move if we see one, the game-changing spectacle of players covering ground at Olympic pace -- rather than letting the ball do the work -- is a basic but dependable thrill.
Leicester's rousing turnarounds against Aston Villa and Stoke, for example, were built on the platform provided by their dashing outlets of Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy. Neither will ever trouble a top-flight transfer record but both sum up the value-for-money benefit of being able to cover ground at an impressive rate of knots. Vardy's unashamed directness feels almost too blunt a weapon to succeed in the Premier League but it's enough to break down defensive doors.
Meanwhile, Mahrez is all about high-speed chicanery. Claudio Ranieri, such is his charming way with words, calls Mahrez his "roadrunner. The low-key slugfest between tired old heavyweights Manchester United and Liverpool offered no reward for Memphis Depay's yard bursts. Once Ashley Young's in-field darting was introduced instead, the game was tipped from its sterile balance.
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