One touch soccer ball
One-touch football is a term from football that describes a tactical game alignment in a team or parts of it towards a quick direct game. The principle of directly passing the ball on to a teammate who in turn hands over the game device to a teammate at the first contact ("one touch") is counted as "modern football" and sets a high level in your own team Willingness to run, technical ability and well-rehearsed routes ahead. Arsène Wenger is considered to be the founder of one-touch football in the modern age , who as coach of Arsenal FC significantly shaped the principle of fast direct play in all parts of the team, although there was a similar concept with total football in the Netherlands as early as the 1970s and at FC Barcelona .
The most important prerequisite for one-touch football is the composition of a technically adept midfield and a unified attack line as a connecting link. The strikers often serve the midfield as a direct pass position in the passing game and bring other teammates into position through body deception or passing on. The high speed in the offensive game often ensures that there are gaps in the opposing defense. One-touch football is therefore often the answer to the modern way of playing professional football teams in the recent past, in which all parts of the team shift from defense to attack in a ball-oriented manner, thereby reducing the space for the opponent and thus reducing the ball to initiate a Winning attack, which is known as pressing . You can then get out of this pressing with quick direct passes. In addition, one-touch football is considered to be particularly effective in counter- attacking when the team has attackers who are quick to start.
The viewer has the impression that teams that follow the one-touch soccer principle play “faster”. Often the English Premier League is rated as "faster" compared to the local league , although only Arsenal FC was considered a strong advocate of this style. In Germany, after the European Football Championship in 2008 , the style of play of the Bundesliga promoted TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, which was influenced by Ralf Rangnick , was referred to as one-touch football.