About offside and how you can prevent it

Let me clarify at the beginning. The word offside has its own version in our wider language, namely backfield. The term offside is a football term that denotes an illegal play behind the opponent’s defense. Sometimes offside is visible to the naked eye, and sometimes determining this requires a VAR system and a special camera that records every movement of the players on the field.

Offside, that is, illegal play behind the defense, usually occurs when a player recklessly encounters an empty space, without regard to his previous position, thinking that he will be given a new, better position from which he can score a goal to score. There are players who have spent their entire careers deep onside, trying to score again and again.

I know such players who have scored dozens of disallowed offside goals. They even apply again and again to be the attackers who decide the match with their move and thus take their team to Europe for some competition. Even if teammates believe their striker is offside, it’s almost a defeat for that team. And it’s no wonder that such teams don’t know how to win for twelve years.

An attacking midfielder who is about to retire cannot pass a quality pass to his striker, if he believes that he is an irreplaceable lever of the team and that this cannot happen without him, just so that he can become a fountain of football ideas has in his head. legs. The beautiful faces around him are no guarantee of his skill.

How do you avoid the offside trap? How do you become a successful centre-forward on the pitch? What is the football secret of a successful team that wins games? In the goals he regularly scores in the opponent’s net, and in a match in which every team player has a role to play. The secret is in following the rules of the game. Matches don’t produce press conference statements promising goals. No. Zone defense and pressure in the center of the pitch throughout the match create opportunities from which the striker scores goals. A team that does not have such a game has a striker who “sleeps” in offside and a central midfielder who lives on the laurels of past glory. That team continues to play in the municipal league.

( Slobodan Savovic )