In part six of a series focusing on basic skills, MORITZ KOSSMANN talks about the craft of closing down opponents. STEPH FAIRBAIRN poses the questions.
For Moritz Kossmann, pressing is the primary defensive action in soccer. It is, in his words, “an attempt at putting pressure on an opponent who has the ball so that they can’t progress the ball up the field easily".
Moritz sat down with Steph Fairbairn to discuss collective pressing strategies, individual pressing principles and how to coach it all...
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