Abstract
Football tactics continue to evolve; such as individual play, total football, one-to-one defense, zone defense, pressing, Gegen (counter) press, positioning soccer, reaction football and vertical fast attack. Among these tactics, the simplest and easy-to-score attack is to take the ball from defenders at a high position. The takeover of the ball is a play, which will be the beginning of the attack for the offense, so taking the ball away is important for any teams in order to win and enter into the top group. In this research, we focus on this tactic and consider effective tactics in contemporary football by comparing top, middle and lower teams of the Japanese Football League.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
McNulty, P.: Johan Cruyff – The man who made Total Football reality, European Football, BBC, 24 March 2016. http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/35893027. Accessed 15 Feb 2018
Carmichael, F., Thomas, D., Ward, R.: Team performance: the case of English Premiership Football. Manag. Decis. Econ. 21, 31–45 (2000)
Constantinou, A.C., Fenton, N.E., Neil, M.: pi-football: a Bayesian network model for forecasting association football match outcomes. Knowl. Based Syst. 36, 322–339 (2012)
Collet, C.: The possession game? A comparative analysis of ball retention and team success in European and international football, 2007–2010. J. Sports Sci. 31(2), 123–136 (2013)
Hirotsu, N., Wright, M.: An evaluation of characteristics of teams in association football by using a Markov process model. Statistician 52(4), 591–602 (2003)
Higuchi, T., Horino, H., Tsuchiya, J.: Effects of tactical training in university soccer: Using “play centroid”. Res. J. Sports Perform. 5, 176–188 (2013). (in Japanese)
Tamura, T., Horino, H., Tsuchiya, J.: Presentation and examination of the classification method about the attack after taking the ball in soccer-Focusing on Fast Break and Possession Play in UEFA EURO 2012. Sport Sci. Res. 12, 42–55 (2015). (in Japanese)
Gama, J., Dias, G., Couceiro, M., Sousa, T, Vaz, V.: Networks metrics and ball possession in professional football. Complexity 21(S2), 342–354 (2016)
Zak, T.A., Huang, C.J., Siegfried, J.J.: Production efficiency: the case of professional basketball. J. Bus. 52, 379–393 (1979)
Berri, D.J.: Who is ‘most valuable’? Measuring the player’s production of wins in the National Basketball Association. Manag. Decis. Econ. 20(8), 411–427 (1999)
Yanagihara, T., Nakajima, N.: Analysis of turnovers in basketball: focus on attack stage. Juntendo Health Sports Sci. 3(1), 58–63 (2011). (in Japanese)
Kobayashi, K.: An effective game strategy in men’s field hockey: from an analysis of the preliminary tournament for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Tokai Gakuin Univ. Bull. Pap. 35, 33–41 (2009). (in Japanese)
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Institute of Statistical Mathematics for sponsoring the datasets.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
About this paper
Cite this paper
Miyamoto, M., Kaneki, Y. (2019). Measuring Tactics of Taking the Ball Away from Defenders in the Japanese Football League. In: Goossens, R. (eds) Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 792. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94000-7_35
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94000-7_35
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-93999-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-94000-7
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)