The Spanish key to optimizing body orientation
Small adjustments can lead to major changes .
Perfil is a typical concept of Spanish football which indicates the body position that the player decides to adopt to make the play with maximum advantage , both in the offensive and defensive phases, before coming into contact with the ball. This is an interesting term because it contains within it all the information necessary to indicate to the player when, where and how to adopt a certain body position . From a methodological perspective, this allows you to transfer a lot of information quickly and efficiently using just one word . In the context of the game, this concept allows the player to be autonomous in recognizing "the best position" to make the most of playing spaces and times.
In Spanish football, the perfil owes its importance to the greatest exponents of positional play, whose proposed football almost forced the players to always be oriented correctly to create advantageous situations with the ball and above all to be able to overcome opposing lines of pressure in the right moment and with the ball under control.
The work of orientation and improvement of the perfiles is very widespread today in the methodologies of the most important Iberian canteras (including Barcelona and Villareal), strongly oriented towards equipping their players with these tools of vital importance in the game.
Precisely thanks to his great experience as coordinator of the methodological area of the cantera of Villareal FC , José Mataix has explored in detail the concept of perfiles to lead coaches (and therefore players) to reflect on the considerable advantages that derive from simple position adjustments on the pitch, proposing a collection of exercises specifically designed to improve the orientation and adjustment of the players' position.
The e-Book offers: a theoretical description of the concept of perfil, accompanied by images taken from official matches that highlight its positioning and the advantages generated in the game; an in-depth study on effective orientation and its implications on tactics; 30 exercises that allow, through different operational means (themed game, simplified situation, exercises), to work on effective positioning.
Author: José Mataix
Series: Tactics
