The document discusses positional play concepts in football, focusing on objectives such as movement and receiving shapes. It emphasizes the importance of using the position of the ball to manipulate opponents, featuring insights from coaches like Pep Guardiola and André Villas-Boas. The repeated mention of 'the free man' and 'the third man' underscores strategies for maintaining offensive pressure.

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Buildup Activity Using Positional Play Concepts

2. Objectives

3. Objectives

4. Initial Movements

5. Receiving Lines

6. Receiving Shape

7. Passing Lines (degrees)

8. The Free Man – Hombre Libre

9. The Free Man – Hombre Libre

10. The Free Man – Hombre Libre

11. The Free Man – Hombre Libre

12. The Third Man – Tercer Hombre

13. The Third Man – Tercer Hombre

14. The Third Man – Tercer Hombre

15. “The objective is to move the opponent, not the ball.” – Pep Guardiola
Provoking the Opponent

16. Barcelona’s players…are permanently thinking about the game, about their movement, about
how to provoke their opponent with the position of the ball. - André Villas-Boas
Provoking the Opponent