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Football Positions Explained: Goalkeepers, Full-Backs, Midfielders, Wingers, Strikers, and Modern Hybrids

by Etienne Psaila , Ai
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798901946138
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Publishdrive
  • Publisher Imprint: Publishdrive
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 370
  • Original Price: USD 23.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 495 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Soccer

Football is often described through familiar labels: goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, winger, striker. Yet behind those simple words lies a constantly evolving tactical world shaped by formations, coaching, athletic development, pressing, positional play, and the changing demands of the modern game.

Football Positions Explained: Goalkeepers, Full-Backs, Midfielders, Wingers, Strikers, and Modern Hybrids is a clear, fact-based, narrative guide to how football roles really work. From the goalkeeper's original duty to the rise of the sweeper-keeper, from centre-backs and full-backs to inverted defenders, wing-backs, holding midfielders, deep-lying playmakers, number tens, traditional wingers, inside forwards, poachers, target men, false nines, second strikers, and hybrid modern roles, this book explains how each position fits into the larger structure of the team.

Written in a flowing, accessible style, it shows how formations change responsibilities, how players learn roles, why tactical suitability matters, and how understanding positions can transform the way a match is watched. This is a book for readers who want to see football more clearly: not only as a game of goals, passes, tackles, and saves, but as a living system of space, movement, responsibility, and tactical evolution.

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This book is an independent, unofficial publication. It is not authorised, endorsed, sponsored, licensed, or approved by FIFA, UEFA, The Football Association, any football club, league, confederation, governing body, player, coach, broadcaster, or commercial rights holder mentioned within the text. All names, trademarks, competition titles, club names, logos, and related identifiers are the property of their respective owners. Any references to football organisations, competitions, clubs, players, coaches, teams, or historical events are used solely for factual, descriptive, educational, and historical purposes. No association with, or endorsement by, any trademark holder is claimed or implied.

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