Rob talks about the art of defending, what defending is and discusses the traits of the most famous defenders in football history. Hop in to learn about this and much more.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Who is a defender? It is someone who wards off an attack it's someone who prohibits it's someone who is a guardian of and a protector of. This should facilitate feelings of pride and facilitate feelings of passion in you.
- Having a strong deep belief in keeping clean sheets and defending well as a basis for a great team and performances and results is something that you will find is borne out by the statistics.
- All attack and no defence is a poor show. For you to succeed in life you should always defend that thing which you have by all means and with this, you will be successful in everything that you do.
- The creative side of the game that floats people's boats, it is the attacking side, the flat side or the beautiful side of the game, as some people would call it that actually is what attracts people to the game.
- Anything in excess, nature tells us is likely to be unsuccessful along the line. A tennis player who can go and play at the next and beyond the front forth all the time is likely to come on stock and not likely to be the best player in the world if he or she is unable to deal defensively and play from the back of the court.
- One of the reasons that defending as an art and a part of the game needs to have a little bit of focus so that it actually is made more attractive to two young players.
- Interesting thing about defending is that if you went around all your individual clubs and took a poll of the real loyal supporters of the club, many of those supporters would probably come out with names of players who maybe have been at the club for many, many years and they've got appearances into the numbers of hundreds for that club and they certainly may not be the star striker or the guy who scored you know 20 goals a season.
- Defending from the front certainly helps a lot because although it looks like Barcelona are the greatest team ever in possession, which is arguably in certain ways they are, their ability to create transition and win the ball back is actually the foundation of that play because they don't allow the other team, the opposition to get a foothold in the game.
BEST MOMENTS
- “All attack and no defence is a poor show.”
- “Partying and no discipline.”
- “The art of defending is certainly not something that celebrated and embraced in the way that it should be.”
- “It's not all about delineating people and it's not all about putting them in necessarily into boxes, it's actually all about celebrating the art of defending.”
- “Never underestimate your opponent.”
- “Let's not overlook defending.”
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ABOUT THE HOST
Rob Ryles is a UEFA qualified coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.
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