If a defender goes to close down an attacker, a team-mate must fill in. MORITZ KOSSMANN explains to STEPH FAIRBAIRN what's required to make it happen.
Moritz Kossmann is DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City in South Africa.
Here, he speaks to Soccer Coach Weekly about the skills of covering and recovering – how the approach to them differs depending on position, how we sell the skills as positive actions and the role leadership and communication plays...
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