The document discusses the performance strengths and areas for improvement of a soccer player named Harry. It analyzes 4 strengths - accuracy, body composition, teamwork, and speed. It also discusses 4 areas for development - control of anxiety, confidence, reaction time, and footwork. For each strength and development area, it provides details on why that trait is important for a striker position and how Harry rated or demonstrated ability in that area.

1. Unit 27
Task 2 – Performance Strengths and
Areas for Improvement

2. Strength 1/4
• Excellence Trait: Accuracy
• Accuracy is particular important for those like Harry
who play the position of a striker as they have to try
and hit a target to score a goal. If his accuracy is not on
point then he is likely to not score which could cause
frustration for other players as they need to work hard
again to get the ball along the pitch back up to the
striker. Harry could also suffer with frustration which
further on in the game could cause him to lose his
confidence in making any shots and effect his shots on
target. Accuracy isn’t a quality I think they should
particular work on as they do not play this position and
they rated themselves a similar score to me.
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disadvantages

3. Strength 2/4
• Excellence Trait: Body composition
• It is important that a striker especially has a good
ratio of body fat and muscle. They need to be
lean in order to run faster to get to the ball
before the opposition do and get a head start.
Having more muscle also enables the player to
jump higher which is great for a striker to jump
and header the ball into the goal on a corner. I
could see this with Harry that he had a good body
composition as he had a lot of power behind the
ball when he made shots at the goal.
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disadvantages

4. Strength 3/4
• Excellence Trait: Teamwork
• On the coach profile wheel my subject rated themselves as a 9 and I
rated them as 8. Teamwork is an important quality of an individual
in a game of football, which means it is very good to have it as
strength. Teamwork is about working with others in a group in
order to achieve the same or similar goals and objectives. Good
teamwork consists of a variety of factors but three of the main ones
are communication, team balance and leadership. I feel like my
subject showed good teamwork skills very well. If the football team
or my subject did not work together well then there is less chance
that it will result in a win. This is because the game of football does
not allow any individual to operate independently for long periods
of time. The team must cooperate to attack, defend and score
goals.
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5. Strength 4/4
• Excellence Trait: Speed
• My subject rated themselves as 7 and I rated them as
an 8. When assessing my subject, them having speed
as strength was very important when it comes to
football as the game involved being fast as the player
needed to be able to keep up the pace of the game.
They also needed to be able to keep up with their
opponent and my subject kept this up throughout. Not
having speed could result in the opposite of this, not
being able to stick with the opponent when defending
as well as not being able to get away from the
opposition when attacking.
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disadvantages

6. Development Area 1/4
• Excellence Trait: Control of anxiety
• I rated Harry as a 5 and the coach rated him as a 6.
Controlling anxiety can be very tough for a player
especially when they have people watching them play
and they have to impress the coach and not let the
team down. For Harry, it is important that he controls
his anxiety because if he gets nervous he is less likely to
make any shots at all, let alone them being on target.
There is little time to change your mind when on the
pitch and if he does change his mind he could get hurt
in a tackle. He should definitely work on this for the
future.
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disadvantages

7. Development Area 2/4
• Excellence Trait: Confidence
• After watching my subject play in a game of football I
rated them as 5 on the coach profile wheel and the
coach said 6. In a game of football, confidence is
important as a quality as it is confidence that helps
your reaction time and decision-making. For example,
making quick decisions takes confidence, as it is
important to make the right pass. This is particularly
important for my player as he is a striker and it is vital
that he has the confidence in himself to make the runs
for the ball and make a shot on target.
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disadvantages

8. Development Area 3/4
• Excellence Trait: Reaction time
• Having poor reaction time really affects a game of football as it is a
very fast paced game. Having this quality as a weakness means the
time it takes for this individual to process and then decide on a
action to follow up with is quite a long period of time in comparison
to someone who has good reactions. When assessing my subject I
thought that their reaction time and decision making was fairly
average and could have been improved. A delay in a game of
football often ends negatively. Reactions and decision making is
important, as the game requires a lot of fast movements so because
of my subject not having a good reaction time for example, it could
slow everything down and cause mistakes. Having poor reaction
times and making poor decisions may result in the opposition
getting to the ball first or distracting you an individual doesn’t play
to their best ability.
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disadvantages

9. Development Area 4/4
• Excellence Trait: Footwork
• I scored my subject a 5 with their footwork and they
scored themselves an 8. This is quite a big difference in
the understanding of their level of play as footwork is
one of the main rules within a game of netball. When
watching my subject play I saw on a few occasions that
there were times were their footwork was not good
which slowed down the pace of the game. Because of
the fact that I rated them a 5 and they rated
themselves an 8, I would choose footwork as
something to work on particularly.
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Critically Analyse: Give your opinion of the subject of interest – consider all of the evidence and then write about both the advantages and
disadvantages