RE: Is The Who? a really bad teamYou two are nuts. It's impossible that playing a game without a noise. To become a more mature team, we need to understand some fundamental concept about the soccer. I would say 80% of players in this team don't know it.
1. Wide open:
What's wide open? Without opponents around the player. Wrong. It's depend on the player's position.
Goalkeeper is always open, why don't we pass the ball to him. Defenders in both side line are wide open in most of time, do we really want to pass the ball to them all the time? It's happen in Yesterday and it's one of the reason we lost the ball.
In general speaking, if the player in opponent fields and he can catch the ball in two step ahead, he is wide open. Unless oppoents are really stupid, no player is in their field without covered. Even if the forwarder is being covered, you can pass the ball to make him open. I know I'm runing slow, but I can get the ball from some players and cannot get the players from the others, why? It's my fault all something else. Think it.
2. Where to run.
One of the noise that Xiao Yang mentioned is "Run, run fast". The question is where to run? Right now we run to our goalie in defence and to opponent goalie in offence. I would say this isn't a simple question. It's about the game plan. Each player has his position and role, he should assign where to run in defence and in offence. Except Eric know where to run, the others have no idea about this. So stop this noise and change to "Cover number ??" in defence. But we need better plan for offence.
3. Whom to pass.
If you understand the wide open, then you know who should pass. There isn't too many options. If we have game plan, then only one or two person you should pass in most of time.
4. Who should pass the ball.
What a stupid question, every one should pass the ball. Wrong. I don't think the side line defender should pass the ball to the two forwarders directly because they don't have the ability to do that, even without opponent's blocking. There are some players in defender, mid-fieder and forwarder who can do the long pass, accuracy pass and over pass. So do the easy pass to them and let them do the harder pass.
5. Run fast vs. pass quick
Except Xiao Tang, every one will agree that the ball will run faster than the player's. Only the quick pass, cross, forward or backward, can destroy the opponent's defence partten. "Ren(1) Se(1) Cu(1) Dong(4)" doesn't work on soccer game.
6. What to say.
We have played for a while and we knew each others. Don't ask other players to do something he couldn't do. If we ask Xiao Yang runing faster than Xiao Tang's, I think the only option for him is to quit. So talk some that can be implemented instead of political theory. For example, default strategy, what's that? Different player has different answer. All team offense - what should Eric do in this case?(Sorry to pick your word as example, sisi).
----- Original Message -----
From: Qishen Tang
To: Shi-Liang Yang ; Chen, Mark ; Dragon (E-mail)
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:01 PM
Subject: RE: Is The Who? a really bad team
Agree with Xiao Yang. We do seem to have a few players like to make a lot of un-sportsmanship comments and blow hot air on and off the fields... Let's try to limit that and become a more mature team.
Now, what heck happened on the Sunday game??? :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Shi-Liang Yang [mailto:slyang@nortelnetworks.com]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:42 PM
To: 'Chen, Mark'; Dragon (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Is The Who? a really bad team
All,
I watched several games in 30D and 30C in the league. Many good team players made very little noise in the field, but, they use body language a lot instead. I guess that's called style and manner.
Let's have some fun first before we think about "lose" or "win".
Xiao Yang
-----Original Message-----
From: Chen, Mark [mailto:MChen@santera.com]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:05 AM
To: Dragon (E-mail)
Subject: Is The Who? a really bad team
All,
Is The Who? a really bad team? Should we feel upset about the 2:2 tie?
The answer is No. Just look at their result, and last season's, I do not
think so. They played pretty smart yesterday by having 6 players as
defense and counter-attacking us. That is something we should learn.
We were unlucky, 0:2 finished the 1st half! Those two goals could have
been avoided. No blaming. It was just unlucky.
We were lucky, 2:0 finished the 2nd half! They could have scored one
more and we could have scored at least couple of more goals.
What do we need to improve? More mid-fielders participating attacking.
Not assist! But obviously most of mid-fielders do not have enough body
strength to last long and stay long enough. Forward's ability to move
left/right, switching positions, etc. Ray's role in yesterday's game is
really superb! Left mid-fielders need to catch up. I did not see
dangerous plays from the left at all! Center mid-fielder's involvement
in attacking was almost zero. Well, it was my fault the first place. I
wanted to play harder......but.....(I was running a little fever and
could not even scream too much.)
Defenders' involvement in attacking is much needed. Assisting. This has
been mentioned actually for Thursday's practice session as well. Mid
range accurate passing needs to improve. It is really a surprise to see
when balls are intercepted because of lack of accuracy/strength.
Team's strategy: Comments are welcome.
1) Play team counter-attack if opponents all come out to midfield and
attack us; This will be our team's default strategy;
2) When opponents play counter-attack in case we need to win the game,
we play all team offense. I will play the last defender's position,
while Li Huan could play left midfield. Zhou Ge/Xiao Su play center for
attacking only.
3) Mutual attacking? Don't know yet.
Again, please voice your comments if any, and we could try it out in our
Thursday's practice. Do we need to have Thursday's practice? Yes, no
doubt about it. We passed/controlled the balls really good in general
yesterday in the back field. But speed might be too slow, in observation
of trailing 0:2. Balls got lost when it went to the forward field, in
form of 45 high balls, wrong passings, driblings etc. I think our
midfielder's attacking speed needs to be improved.
Anyway, this 30C division teams are quite even in team skills/strength.
I think all the 7 teams are able to beat us and we can also beat any one
of them as well. This is the fact! No easy wins in this division, even
with the last standing team! Can we easily win FC Devan (last place) and
United SC (last 2nd place)? ? ?
Please remember no too much blamings on/off the field and that we belong
to the same team, win or loose! Let's improve our team from each and
every player first.
Go Dragons,
-Chen, Si
PS, next Sunday's game vs FC Devan will be delayed to 5:00pm instead of
11:00am. Details to follow.
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