Gary Fixter - Physical Training in Soccer • Soccer is a collective sport, in which 2 teams of 11 players face each other. The objective is to score more goals than the opposing team, for which game tactics and strategies will be used depending on the possibilities of the own team and the rival, seeking both the strengths of our team and the weaknesses of the opponent. Physical training in soccer has a fundamental role in performance. • When playing, each footballer has an assigned position and functions or tasks that must be performed during the game, but must not be carried out individually but in conjunction with their peers, who will perform other different functions, and the overall performance of the 11 players will make up the team game.
• When carrying out a physical training in soccer, you must plan them to obtain the best possible results. This planning must take into account: the competition calendar, the team context, the club's objectives, the energy demands of the competition, the game systems and important matches against determined rivals. • • Although the objective to work in the training sessions is the same for all the players (for example, to work the speed of displacement) it is not necessary to work the same for all the players, but differentiating according to the position where they play and, thus, to be able to get closer. maximum possible to the efforts that each player will have to make throughout a match. • • The first thing to do before entering how to improve soccer performance from a specific training is to study what are the physical and physiological demands that a soccer game represents on the players. In the next section we will see the average physical demands of a game for a footballer, regardless of the position they occupy, and then see them post by post and thus be able to train them.