What is Football? Understanding the Game and Shaping Our Camps
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What is Football? Understanding the Game and Shaping Our Camps
Following up on our last blog, we posed the question: "What is football?" Understanding the answer to this question has profoundly shaped how Football Friendlies designs and delivers its football camps. Today, we aim to answer this question and hope that this understanding will inspire other coaches to rethink their approach to coaching.
Defining Football
Before we answer "what is football?" we need to describe what football entails. Football is fundamentally a player's game. When a player is engaged in the game within a football environment, several key processes occur:
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Communication: The player collects information from their surroundings, which includes the position of teammates, opponents, and the ball. This act of gathering information is what we call communicating. It involves constant interaction with the environment and exchanging information with teammates and opponents.
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Decision-Making: Once the player collects this information, they must decide what to do with it. This decision-making process is critical and happens rapidly during the game.
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Execution: After deciding, the player needs to execute their decision. This could be passing the ball, making a run, or any other action on the field.