The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Soccer Formations

Last week I took about the position on soccer team. There are almost 20 different positions which have different functions and specific characteristics. Today, I will talk about how the positions standing to create different soccer formations. 

It's interesting to research soccer formation because there are all kinds of different and flexible formations in different occasions, just depending your opponent and the match how is going. Formations are the way a soccer team lines up its defense, midfield, and forward line at the beginning of the match. Dividing soccer formation in three types, there are offensive, controlling and defensive. For example, an offensive formation tend to attack, so it always put less defender and more forward such as 4-3-3, 3-4-3 and 3-5-2. In contrast, a defensive formation more focus on defend, so it will be more defenders on the formation like 5-4-1, 5-2-2-1 and 4-5-1. The last type is controlling formation which good at attack and defend balanced. These formations are useful because it is balance and flexible. Also easier to control the match so it is popular too. The typical formations for control are 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1 and 4-1-2-1-2.


Here is a link about the introduction of soccer formations: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1375589-15-tactical-formations-and-what-theyre-good-for