How to play association football, etc

GENERAL ADVICE TO PLAYERS
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that player, but also is unable to lend the other forwards the
assistance required for successful attack.
A player, then, need not work like a Trojan if his partners
are judiciously acting their parts. All that is required of him
is that he do his own little share to the best of his ability.
Coolness and self-possession are indispensable to the player
who would command success. The player, who loses his head
at a critical moment, is of little real service to
The value of coolness
his side, because by a few displays
of such and self-possession.
weakness he may neutralize all the good work of the other
members of his team.
Intelligence also must be shown by the ambitious footballer.
He must have all his wits about him and use his thinking
faculties in the endeavour to anticipate probable move- The value of
rnents.
The question of success or non-success is
intelligence.
largely determined by a player's ability to play the game
with intelligent and logical mind.
Possessed of coolness and collectedness, of intelligence and
judgment, and of a sound physique, one may look forward
with confidence to a successful career as an Association Foot-
ball player. Difficulties and possibly disappointments will
arise, but with caution and perseverance these can be over-
come.
A player with the above-mentioned qualities will soon learn
to display tact in his play. If one method of play is fruitless,
he will have recourse to another. He will change
The advisability
his tactics to meet the various situations that crop
of varying
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up. For instance, if an outside forward has been
one
'
s tactics.
baulked in the attempt to beat an opposing back by one
means, he must employ other means in his subsequent at-
tempts. Even although successful at the first attempt, the
forward should vary his tactics, as the back will probably
prepare to meet the ruse that previously succeeded. Again,
a centre-forward, who meets with little or no success in
originating one plan of attack, must alter his methods of
wooing success.
Tact
is in
evidence when a player jockeys for position, so to
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