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2 Comments on “What are halfbacks, sweepers, and other soccer positions?”

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   Soccer dome 2
   February 2nd, 2012 at 10:10 am

   Exercise sessions might be damp and extremely cold. Big event it’s better to stay at home along with take a seat while watching tv with the heaters onSoccer

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   rabreu
   December 2nd, 2013 at 9:33 pm

   Very good description of positions (though could be interpreted differently depending on the club), but the 1-3-3-2-1 formation is unnecessarily-complicated and rarely used at the professional level nowadays. the 4-4-2 formation works a lot better, AS LONG AS the fullbacks and wingers are really fast and are in good enough shape to cover a lot of ground for the whole game. when i played in college, we had two centerbacks (not too far away from our keeper), two fullbacks in front of them covering the far sides of the field (they had to run up and down the field for attack and defense all the time), then two midfielders positioned close to the center of the field, then two wingers in further up and covering the outside, and then finally two strikers. This formation is a lot simpler than the one described here but I do understand the benefits of having a “sweeper”, which our team never had.

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