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This week, in full football and journalism “Boom” with the classic cup between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, there has been a lot of talk about the state of the teams, the coaches, and especially the level of current performance of some players in particular .
One that has been the focus of much attention is on the always discussed Karim Benzema, who currently seems to be in one of his best moments of his career.
Karim has always been disputed because of his low scoring contribution in his team. There has always been and will be the comment: “The striker is to score goals.” Obviously it is one of the responsibilities and potential that the figure of the centre forward of any team should have, but many times it is given such importance to these purely statistical data that we do not see further, and we do not value other realities of the game that have the same weight in the performance of a team.
Let’s see first what Benzema thinks about this and then we will try to give our point of view.
The ideas that come to mind when reinforcing Benzema’s speech are the following:
1. The different roles that a player can have during the game.
There are 4 roles, and we usually put the focus of attention only on one: “what the player does when he has a ball”. But it is important to also know how each player decides and acts in the roles: Attacker without the ball, Defender of the possessor, and Defender of the non-possessor.
In this case, Karim is a good example of a player who perhaps is not as determinant as other forwards in the attacking role with the ball, but he is much more than others in the 3 roles without the ball, which in the end are those that appear in a player 95% of the time of the match, taking in account that one ball must always be distributed among 22 players.
2. The fundamentals of the game that a centre forward must master.
We have identified 45 fundamentals contemplating individual, line, or collective that a centre forward should know or master to be a specialist understanding the game and acting accordingly to our methodology. Of all of them, only 7 have to do with the situation of finishing the play (the only thing that is often valued as a striker).
As we said before, Karim has an excellent command of many other skills that have a lot to do with the other 38 fundamentals of the game. Aspects such as offering support, organizing the offensive game, generate and take advantage, defense of space etc. Another good example of this type of forwards so unusual and little valued, who play more for the benefit of the team than for their own could be Roberto Firmino.
3. The cognitive and socio-affective structure in its maximum exponent.
At the end, all this that we have commented, is summarized in an excellent development of the structures of Seirul·lo named, and two of which we give more importance for the good mastery of the game in MBP. Identify and recognize the situations that the game presents us in a sport as complex as football, and decide and execute accordingly not only for me, but in harmony with the rest of my teammates is fundamental.
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