World Cup Day 6 -- S Arabia 2 Tunisia 2; Poland 0 Germany 1
Arabia vs Tunisia
First Half
Ball came into Jaziri, on a bounce, right in front of the Saudi goal. Jaziri, lept into the air, dipped his left shoulder, kicked the ball to his left into the right upper corner of Saudi Arabia's goal.
The crabby coach type announcer at espn2 was beside himself with adulation of Jaziri for this goal. Crabby coach declared--I do'nt remember the exact jocky phrase he used maybe it was "convert"-- that you gotta pounce on such opportunities, fire off shots.
The ball was moving horizontally slowly when Jaziri kicked it, it was also moving slowly in terms of vertical motion. Jaziri had plenty of time. Compare that to the horizontal and vertical speed of balls I deal with when sprinting while air dribbling the ball off the ground, which is not to mention the horizontal speed of my body.
I concede that the Jaziri situation was different compared to but it was not more difficult than situations I routinely deal with in air dribbling training--but I could in my mind just hear crabby coach upbraiding me for my weakness in this volleying in crosses.
Plus I could not forget the history of the 2006 world cup so far, world cuppers scoring when they dallied a little with the ball before shooting it, compared to their failures when they volleyed the ball in, which what espn2 crabby coach announcer sounded like he wants.
Let me tell you something, crabby espn2 announcer coach. I could get my self a wrestling mat, lay it out on the ground by a wall, throw the ball at the wall, and then do leaping volleys of the balls that come my way. Maybe I could even spend several hours wear myself out looking for a portable goal like net to shoot into. In the end what I would have is a rough imperfect simulation of game type situations, alot of time and energy put into setting things up and then taking them home, a low number of attempts per hour, due to having to chase down the ball or balls after the attempts.
Then again as an alternative, I could in practice when alone, concentrate on those aspects that you can do a good job of practicing when alone, such as sprinting 20 yards keeping the ball close to the body off the ground...and I could wait to get into a team where there would be the machines and the assistants to work with me so I can effectively drill volleying in air balls in the middle into the goal.
Problem is that you always have these simple minded, martinettish coaches, who look at Player X, who on a 0 poor, 10 excellent scale is a 7 on individual dribbling attack and a 7 on volleying in balls centered into the middle, and prefer him to player Y who is a 10 on individual dribbling attack and a 4 on volleying in crosses but would be a 10 on volleying centered balls into the goal, if he were only able to practice for ten hours with the assistants and the machinery that he needs.
Crabby Coach's pet idol Jaziri, of him, crabby coach said, Yea Jazieri he's not hesitant to take people on...because this Jaziri of Tunisia, takes that ball and attempts to ground-dribble it past the opposing team. I agree with Crabby Coach, guys like Jaziri are admirable because they are willing to attempt to dribble the ball right by and through the defenders.
Jaziri types are under rated because simply through their willingness to clash head on with defenders while dribbling the ball, they (ie Brazil's Kaka) are able to relax when facing a defender while dribbling the ball, which is useful when it comes to shooting or passing, though the simple fail to notice such usefulness.
Since these Jaziri/Kaka types are a threat in terms of dribbling by a defender, the defender gives them a fraction of a second extra to shoot or to pass.
The coaches seem enamored by the play in which a centered ball is volleyed into the goal on the first touch; but what they fail to realize, is that the kind of plays that eventually lead to these air ball volleyed into net situations that they obsess over and treasure, are created by plays that have nothing to do with the passing into the middle and the volley into the net.
When a team has an ability to score without resorting to the what has become a cliche--the pass into the middle and the volley into the net--then the very existence of this alternative possibility opens up the volley cross into net situations.
Germany vs Poland
First Half
1 Evolving from high speed air dribbling to being stationary and getting a bouncing ball or air ball passed to one, is not necessarily an evolution into something more difficult for me, I note as Germany Poland game begins.
2 schweinsteiger takes a blocked shot why...
3 Metzelder speaks perfect english, sez announcer
4 Polish guy racing into a spot
about 25 yds from Germany goal, had ball passed to him on ground, from in front and left, he had fine chance to get ball in air he just passed off to a guy who shot straight at the goalie.
5 Klose, Germany, trapped waist high ball with left, then shot it as soon as it hit the ground, he had a team mate wide open, but he shot it right at the goalie...what happened is that the errand of trapping the air ball and kicking it took his eyes off the field. It's important to be able to take in the field with the eyes like Brazil's Kaka. My eyes rarely watch balls below chest high when I air dribble.
6 Ball has to be played on the ground by Poland against these tall German guys allegedly. This allegation made by ESPN announcer. He sees balls in the air as balls above head height. Thus height determines whether there should be an aerial game in his eyes. Point is aerial game can produce advantage without ball going up over head high, it is when ball is head high or higher that height matters. Aerial game is not just heads it is thighs, feet, chest, face, shoulders, it produces unpredictability, fast changes of direction, leaps over sliding tacklers, speed of movement, speed of change of direction, when practiced at a high level of sophistication.
7 Right winger Friedrich tried to get by the fullback, ball to one side body to other, he lost the ball.
8 #11 Klose attempted the same thing again again lost the ball, tried to just push the defender off the ball.
8.5 about this time, not sure exactly when, German guy tried moves where as body and ball roll towards defender, left and right foot kick past ball feinting dribble of ball in this or that direction. This German lost the ball, as happened in similar stunt yesterday.
9 Polish guy 25 yds from goal had ball passed to him knee high in the air, it bounced off him to the defender. This situation with a better pass and the pass better handled could have produced aerial theatrics. I've done what Klose failed to do several times, I consider such a move part of the ideal strategic triad for ground dribbling.
10 Polish guy at the right wingposition, ball came to him on the bounce, nobody near him, great chance for some flight, he just passes to team-mate, putting team-mate in impossible situation, team-mate lost the ball.
11 Klose got a header right in front of the goal, missed the goal--knowing how often they practice that move, I get the feeling that with ten hours sixty balls crossed into me per hour I could be at least as good. In this case, the goalie slid at Klose, Klose was heading it, the goalie SLID at him hands up, hands just four feet above the ground, Incredible. Still no goal. The thing about being able to go a couple of yards air dribbling, it puts the goalie or defender in a hopeless position if he slides at the attacker. The mere threat of an air dribble inhibits the slide, opening up possibilities. Yet what I hear from the ESPN2 announcer it seems--is it my imagination--is, a kind of tired scorn re "your idea of air dribbling". It is not just an idea, old fart I mean old man. I can sprint 15 yds with the ball 45 times in an hour, consistently, going two yards is no sweat, "graduating" to handling balls passed in, bouncing balls, is not a step upwards in difficulty for me just something new.
12 Schweinsteiger ran down a bouncing ball in front of him, passed it immediately on the volley, straight to the other team. I fly along with the ball, the ball never touching the ground. I know that the ball bouncing in front of me would be easier to handle than the air ball. Yet sometimes we need to practice the simpler things more than we need to practice the difficult; the new skill is not necessarily a step upwards in terms of difficulty, those who learn something difficult before they learn something simpler, have skills they can apply to the new simpler thing.
13 Ballack supposedly Germany's best player, had ball rolling towards him and from side 30 yds from Poland goal. Ballach was facing towards right sideline, had plenty of time, could have gotten in the air, shot lame grounder that missed by several yards.
14 Announcer claimed Ballack out of shape. Several days without training. Just what an out of shape guy like me needs to hear.
15 Ballack again had fine opportunity to get bouncing ball into the air 30 yds from Poland goal. He immediately passed it, ball went out of bounds, Germany got corner, then Poland got ball. Whoopee. But it is interesting to know, which guys get these opportunities to sart flying where. Helps me figure out what to drill, what position to play.
16 Podolski of Germany, his back to defender, got waist high line drive, immediately grounded ball turned, and missed with shot, 15 yds from Poland goal. It was the kind of back to goal reception that would be awkward for me but I could get good at it.
17 Poland guy with nobody near him missed slow bouncing ball completely, 35 yds from Germany goal. I mean his foot did not contact the ball.
18 Zurawski Poland striker had chance to get ball bouncing in front of him in air moving towards the goal, right side, 30 yds from Germany goal; he immediately shot it on first touch, it went wide and high several yards, then the announcer talked about how great he is.
19 German had chance to initiate air run 37 yds away from Poland goal, approx, did not, then Germany somehow messed up...than a German had a chance to start flying with a bouncing ball, nobody near, 20 yds from Poland goal, again Germany just lost ball to Poland.
20 Next German forward on left wing lost ball but got a corner kick out of it, this was an honorable feat said the announcer.
21 Smolarek Poland forward chased down bouncing ball, in front of him, moving in same direction as him, he shot it on the first touch, Poland got corner, Germany got posession of the ball. I regularly at a sprint chase down air balls that are in the air but not bouncers, and continue the flight. He could have donethis with his bouncing ball, but his instinct was to immediately groung the ball. It is easier to do stuff with a bouncing ball than it is to do stuff with a ball in the air that has not bounced off the ground.
22 Podolski, Germany forward a got a bouncing ball passed into him in the middle, he immediately grounded the ball, and shot it at the goalie who blocked it. This was according to the announcer at ESPN2, a tremendous display of skill. Seems to me he could have started flying with the ball since it was sort of bouncing about a foot above the ground, but not rocketing at a high speed. Then again had I been in his place I would have probably done the same thing that he did.
Second Half
23 Poland guy gets ball 25 yds from goal, instead of dribbling a little--he had plenty of time--the Polishman shoots the ball right at the goalie.
24 Jelen, Poland, faced the tough time of having to shield ball, back to Germany's goal at forward position, just 20 yds from the goal.
25 Klose got ball 15 yds from Poland goal, bouncing ball, in front of him, moving approx same direction as him, I routinely handle balls more difficult than this, balls in the air that have not bounced in the same spot as the bouncer in question in this game, I continue the flight with the ball (ball never touching the ground) at a sprint, it would be easier to pass or shoot the air ball, which I can do well also, seeing its easier to pass or shoot than it is to continue the flight.
26 But Klose, German forward on another occasion similarly got ball rolling towards him and from side, he shot immediately, no goal resulted, the defender slid at him, if he had flipped the ball in the air he could have gone right over the prostrate defender. But announcer was impressed.
27 The black guy on Germany Odonkur chased down a bouncer, chasing down a bouncer what I'd be good at, but getting it into a flight is my specialty. Odonkur just grounded it. Then he crossed it into a Poland guy, Germany got a corner kick, Poland got the ball after the corner, whoopee.
28 Klose raced down the Poland left with the ball, end result Germany throw in, then Poland got the ball. Whoopee. I was expecting the ESPN2 announcer to start gushing about how great it was that Germany's Klose got a Germany throw in out of his brilliant move, but the announcer did not say what knowing him I expected him to say.
29 Germany fullback fired great ultra long pass, Germany forward had my kind of ball in front of him, bouncing in front of him at high speed, moving the same direction as him, he could not reach the ball. This approx 40 yds from Poland goal.
30 Klose of Germany sends medium length 20 yd pass directly at Poland defender, though he Klose had plenty of time.
31 Germany's black guy, Odonkor fastest guy on field supposedly, raced down right side, near sideline, got himelf in awkward position (he had no alternative of going to his right), the ball was stolen by Poland. I was expecting the announcer to say that the ball would not have been stolen by Poland if the black German guy was a little slower of a sprinter.
32 A Poland guy had to come out of the game leaving only ten Poland guys on field, with 15 minutes remaining. I tell you, when I go at these guys dribbling the ball in the air and or on the ground, they will foul me, with disastrous consequences, as they will foul me in the penalty box and foul themselves out of the game. I can see watching the action that when I air dribble in at them there will be plenty of action inside of the penalty box.
33 Black german fastest guy on the field, flashed those moves where the foot goes past the ball as if it was about to push the ball in a given direction, the ball bounced off the defender, Germany got a throw in, then Poland got the ball. Whoopee.
34 Lahm of Germany dribbled past and through a couple of Poland men.
35 Cross into a German 20 yds from Poland goal, German shoots on first volley, shoots right at goalie, announcer erupts, what a grat save!!! The German had a Poland guy sliding at him, the ball was rolling at him from the side of the field if he had gotten the ball in the air the Prostrate Pole on the ground would have been history. The ball was shot right at the goalie, the goalie did not have to move much to stop it.
36 Odonkur, got ball on side, kicked it into Poland defender, Poland defender kicked it out of bounds, Germany got throw in, Poland recovered ball. Exactly how advantageous is getting these throw-ins actually? Shall we hear from the ESPN2 announcer, of the great skill of these forwards who get throw ins for their team? The ball cannot be thrown that far, the defense has a chance to set up when there is a throw in.
37 Neuville of Germany got a ball perfect for me, bouncing in front of him, moving fast same direction as him, he could not handle it, approx 35 yds from goal.
38 Zurowski of Germany got ball 25 yards in front of goal, rolling slowly towards him from side plenty of time, he shot right away, no goal. Announcers thought it was great.
39 Germany crossed ball in, Klose executed excellent header, ball hit Poland goal crossbar, then Ballack hit cross bar on rebound. When Klose headed the ball it was flying in the same direction he was running approx such is the way it is with me when I sprint/air-dribble in drills.
40 Odonkur the Germany black speed king, chased down bouncing ball on right side, this was my kind of ball again ball bouncing right in front, Odonkur crossed in perfect cross to Germany forward who slid as he kicked the ball into the Poland goal. I know I can handle such balls as the type Odonkur handled when he passed the ball well, because, the air balls I work with when drilling are harder to deal with than the bouncers, and also, it is easier to kick off a pass or a shot than it is tocontinue a flight. I think Odonkur did the right thing in this instance.
41 Conclusion: Germany showed today in the game vs Poland, that they are very adept at doing things like setting up players with the kind of balls I like to be set up with, specifically and especially situations where I or some player could reach the ball in the air moving in the same direction as the ball, with me or the player getting to the ball either before or after it bounces.
@2005 David Virgil Hobbs
(aw come on Franz, this is 3200 wds!!!)
First Half
Ball came into Jaziri, on a bounce, right in front of the Saudi goal. Jaziri, lept into the air, dipped his left shoulder, kicked the ball to his left into the right upper corner of Saudi Arabia's goal.
The crabby coach type announcer at espn2 was beside himself with adulation of Jaziri for this goal. Crabby coach declared--I do'nt remember the exact jocky phrase he used maybe it was "convert"-- that you gotta pounce on such opportunities, fire off shots.
The ball was moving horizontally slowly when Jaziri kicked it, it was also moving slowly in terms of vertical motion. Jaziri had plenty of time. Compare that to the horizontal and vertical speed of balls I deal with when sprinting while air dribbling the ball off the ground, which is not to mention the horizontal speed of my body.
I concede that the Jaziri situation was different compared to but it was not more difficult than situations I routinely deal with in air dribbling training--but I could in my mind just hear crabby coach upbraiding me for my weakness in this volleying in crosses.
Plus I could not forget the history of the 2006 world cup so far, world cuppers scoring when they dallied a little with the ball before shooting it, compared to their failures when they volleyed the ball in, which what espn2 crabby coach announcer sounded like he wants.
Let me tell you something, crabby espn2 announcer coach. I could get my self a wrestling mat, lay it out on the ground by a wall, throw the ball at the wall, and then do leaping volleys of the balls that come my way. Maybe I could even spend several hours wear myself out looking for a portable goal like net to shoot into. In the end what I would have is a rough imperfect simulation of game type situations, alot of time and energy put into setting things up and then taking them home, a low number of attempts per hour, due to having to chase down the ball or balls after the attempts.
Then again as an alternative, I could in practice when alone, concentrate on those aspects that you can do a good job of practicing when alone, such as sprinting 20 yards keeping the ball close to the body off the ground...and I could wait to get into a team where there would be the machines and the assistants to work with me so I can effectively drill volleying in air balls in the middle into the goal.
Problem is that you always have these simple minded, martinettish coaches, who look at Player X, who on a 0 poor, 10 excellent scale is a 7 on individual dribbling attack and a 7 on volleying in balls centered into the middle, and prefer him to player Y who is a 10 on individual dribbling attack and a 4 on volleying in crosses but would be a 10 on volleying centered balls into the goal, if he were only able to practice for ten hours with the assistants and the machinery that he needs.
Crabby Coach's pet idol Jaziri, of him, crabby coach said, Yea Jazieri he's not hesitant to take people on...because this Jaziri of Tunisia, takes that ball and attempts to ground-dribble it past the opposing team. I agree with Crabby Coach, guys like Jaziri are admirable because they are willing to attempt to dribble the ball right by and through the defenders.
Jaziri types are under rated because simply through their willingness to clash head on with defenders while dribbling the ball, they (ie Brazil's Kaka) are able to relax when facing a defender while dribbling the ball, which is useful when it comes to shooting or passing, though the simple fail to notice such usefulness.
Since these Jaziri/Kaka types are a threat in terms of dribbling by a defender, the defender gives them a fraction of a second extra to shoot or to pass.
The coaches seem enamored by the play in which a centered ball is volleyed into the goal on the first touch; but what they fail to realize, is that the kind of plays that eventually lead to these air ball volleyed into net situations that they obsess over and treasure, are created by plays that have nothing to do with the passing into the middle and the volley into the net.
When a team has an ability to score without resorting to the what has become a cliche--the pass into the middle and the volley into the net--then the very existence of this alternative possibility opens up the volley cross into net situations.
Germany vs Poland
First Half
1 Evolving from high speed air dribbling to being stationary and getting a bouncing ball or air ball passed to one, is not necessarily an evolution into something more difficult for me, I note as Germany Poland game begins.
2 schweinsteiger takes a blocked shot why...
3 Metzelder speaks perfect english, sez announcer
4 Polish guy racing into a spot
about 25 yds from Germany goal, had ball passed to him on ground, from in front and left, he had fine chance to get ball in air he just passed off to a guy who shot straight at the goalie.
5 Klose, Germany, trapped waist high ball with left, then shot it as soon as it hit the ground, he had a team mate wide open, but he shot it right at the goalie...what happened is that the errand of trapping the air ball and kicking it took his eyes off the field. It's important to be able to take in the field with the eyes like Brazil's Kaka. My eyes rarely watch balls below chest high when I air dribble.
6 Ball has to be played on the ground by Poland against these tall German guys allegedly. This allegation made by ESPN announcer. He sees balls in the air as balls above head height. Thus height determines whether there should be an aerial game in his eyes. Point is aerial game can produce advantage without ball going up over head high, it is when ball is head high or higher that height matters. Aerial game is not just heads it is thighs, feet, chest, face, shoulders, it produces unpredictability, fast changes of direction, leaps over sliding tacklers, speed of movement, speed of change of direction, when practiced at a high level of sophistication.
7 Right winger Friedrich tried to get by the fullback, ball to one side body to other, he lost the ball.
8 #11 Klose attempted the same thing again again lost the ball, tried to just push the defender off the ball.
8.5 about this time, not sure exactly when, German guy tried moves where as body and ball roll towards defender, left and right foot kick past ball feinting dribble of ball in this or that direction. This German lost the ball, as happened in similar stunt yesterday.
9 Polish guy 25 yds from goal had ball passed to him knee high in the air, it bounced off him to the defender. This situation with a better pass and the pass better handled could have produced aerial theatrics. I've done what Klose failed to do several times, I consider such a move part of the ideal strategic triad for ground dribbling.
10 Polish guy at the right wingposition, ball came to him on the bounce, nobody near him, great chance for some flight, he just passes to team-mate, putting team-mate in impossible situation, team-mate lost the ball.
11 Klose got a header right in front of the goal, missed the goal--knowing how often they practice that move, I get the feeling that with ten hours sixty balls crossed into me per hour I could be at least as good. In this case, the goalie slid at Klose, Klose was heading it, the goalie SLID at him hands up, hands just four feet above the ground, Incredible. Still no goal. The thing about being able to go a couple of yards air dribbling, it puts the goalie or defender in a hopeless position if he slides at the attacker. The mere threat of an air dribble inhibits the slide, opening up possibilities. Yet what I hear from the ESPN2 announcer it seems--is it my imagination--is, a kind of tired scorn re "your idea of air dribbling". It is not just an idea, old fart I mean old man. I can sprint 15 yds with the ball 45 times in an hour, consistently, going two yards is no sweat, "graduating" to handling balls passed in, bouncing balls, is not a step upwards in difficulty for me just something new.
12 Schweinsteiger ran down a bouncing ball in front of him, passed it immediately on the volley, straight to the other team. I fly along with the ball, the ball never touching the ground. I know that the ball bouncing in front of me would be easier to handle than the air ball. Yet sometimes we need to practice the simpler things more than we need to practice the difficult; the new skill is not necessarily a step upwards in terms of difficulty, those who learn something difficult before they learn something simpler, have skills they can apply to the new simpler thing.
13 Ballack supposedly Germany's best player, had ball rolling towards him and from side 30 yds from Poland goal. Ballach was facing towards right sideline, had plenty of time, could have gotten in the air, shot lame grounder that missed by several yards.
14 Announcer claimed Ballack out of shape. Several days without training. Just what an out of shape guy like me needs to hear.
15 Ballack again had fine opportunity to get bouncing ball into the air 30 yds from Poland goal. He immediately passed it, ball went out of bounds, Germany got corner, then Poland got ball. Whoopee. But it is interesting to know, which guys get these opportunities to sart flying where. Helps me figure out what to drill, what position to play.
16 Podolski of Germany, his back to defender, got waist high line drive, immediately grounded ball turned, and missed with shot, 15 yds from Poland goal. It was the kind of back to goal reception that would be awkward for me but I could get good at it.
17 Poland guy with nobody near him missed slow bouncing ball completely, 35 yds from Germany goal. I mean his foot did not contact the ball.
18 Zurawski Poland striker had chance to get ball bouncing in front of him in air moving towards the goal, right side, 30 yds from Germany goal; he immediately shot it on first touch, it went wide and high several yards, then the announcer talked about how great he is.
19 German had chance to initiate air run 37 yds away from Poland goal, approx, did not, then Germany somehow messed up...than a German had a chance to start flying with a bouncing ball, nobody near, 20 yds from Poland goal, again Germany just lost ball to Poland.
20 Next German forward on left wing lost ball but got a corner kick out of it, this was an honorable feat said the announcer.
21 Smolarek Poland forward chased down bouncing ball, in front of him, moving in same direction as him, he shot it on the first touch, Poland got corner, Germany got posession of the ball. I regularly at a sprint chase down air balls that are in the air but not bouncers, and continue the flight. He could have donethis with his bouncing ball, but his instinct was to immediately groung the ball. It is easier to do stuff with a bouncing ball than it is to do stuff with a ball in the air that has not bounced off the ground.
22 Podolski, Germany forward a got a bouncing ball passed into him in the middle, he immediately grounded the ball, and shot it at the goalie who blocked it. This was according to the announcer at ESPN2, a tremendous display of skill. Seems to me he could have started flying with the ball since it was sort of bouncing about a foot above the ground, but not rocketing at a high speed. Then again had I been in his place I would have probably done the same thing that he did.
Second Half
23 Poland guy gets ball 25 yds from goal, instead of dribbling a little--he had plenty of time--the Polishman shoots the ball right at the goalie.
24 Jelen, Poland, faced the tough time of having to shield ball, back to Germany's goal at forward position, just 20 yds from the goal.
25 Klose got ball 15 yds from Poland goal, bouncing ball, in front of him, moving approx same direction as him, I routinely handle balls more difficult than this, balls in the air that have not bounced in the same spot as the bouncer in question in this game, I continue the flight with the ball (ball never touching the ground) at a sprint, it would be easier to pass or shoot the air ball, which I can do well also, seeing its easier to pass or shoot than it is to continue the flight.
26 But Klose, German forward on another occasion similarly got ball rolling towards him and from side, he shot immediately, no goal resulted, the defender slid at him, if he had flipped the ball in the air he could have gone right over the prostrate defender. But announcer was impressed.
27 The black guy on Germany Odonkur chased down a bouncer, chasing down a bouncer what I'd be good at, but getting it into a flight is my specialty. Odonkur just grounded it. Then he crossed it into a Poland guy, Germany got a corner kick, Poland got the ball after the corner, whoopee.
28 Klose raced down the Poland left with the ball, end result Germany throw in, then Poland got the ball. Whoopee. I was expecting the ESPN2 announcer to start gushing about how great it was that Germany's Klose got a Germany throw in out of his brilliant move, but the announcer did not say what knowing him I expected him to say.
29 Germany fullback fired great ultra long pass, Germany forward had my kind of ball in front of him, bouncing in front of him at high speed, moving the same direction as him, he could not reach the ball. This approx 40 yds from Poland goal.
30 Klose of Germany sends medium length 20 yd pass directly at Poland defender, though he Klose had plenty of time.
31 Germany's black guy, Odonkor fastest guy on field supposedly, raced down right side, near sideline, got himelf in awkward position (he had no alternative of going to his right), the ball was stolen by Poland. I was expecting the announcer to say that the ball would not have been stolen by Poland if the black German guy was a little slower of a sprinter.
32 A Poland guy had to come out of the game leaving only ten Poland guys on field, with 15 minutes remaining. I tell you, when I go at these guys dribbling the ball in the air and or on the ground, they will foul me, with disastrous consequences, as they will foul me in the penalty box and foul themselves out of the game. I can see watching the action that when I air dribble in at them there will be plenty of action inside of the penalty box.
33 Black german fastest guy on the field, flashed those moves where the foot goes past the ball as if it was about to push the ball in a given direction, the ball bounced off the defender, Germany got a throw in, then Poland got the ball. Whoopee.
34 Lahm of Germany dribbled past and through a couple of Poland men.
35 Cross into a German 20 yds from Poland goal, German shoots on first volley, shoots right at goalie, announcer erupts, what a grat save!!! The German had a Poland guy sliding at him, the ball was rolling at him from the side of the field if he had gotten the ball in the air the Prostrate Pole on the ground would have been history. The ball was shot right at the goalie, the goalie did not have to move much to stop it.
36 Odonkur, got ball on side, kicked it into Poland defender, Poland defender kicked it out of bounds, Germany got throw in, Poland recovered ball. Exactly how advantageous is getting these throw-ins actually? Shall we hear from the ESPN2 announcer, of the great skill of these forwards who get throw ins for their team? The ball cannot be thrown that far, the defense has a chance to set up when there is a throw in.
37 Neuville of Germany got a ball perfect for me, bouncing in front of him, moving fast same direction as him, he could not handle it, approx 35 yds from goal.
38 Zurowski of Germany got ball 25 yards in front of goal, rolling slowly towards him from side plenty of time, he shot right away, no goal. Announcers thought it was great.
39 Germany crossed ball in, Klose executed excellent header, ball hit Poland goal crossbar, then Ballack hit cross bar on rebound. When Klose headed the ball it was flying in the same direction he was running approx such is the way it is with me when I sprint/air-dribble in drills.
40 Odonkur the Germany black speed king, chased down bouncing ball on right side, this was my kind of ball again ball bouncing right in front, Odonkur crossed in perfect cross to Germany forward who slid as he kicked the ball into the Poland goal. I know I can handle such balls as the type Odonkur handled when he passed the ball well, because, the air balls I work with when drilling are harder to deal with than the bouncers, and also, it is easier to kick off a pass or a shot than it is tocontinue a flight. I think Odonkur did the right thing in this instance.
41 Conclusion: Germany showed today in the game vs Poland, that they are very adept at doing things like setting up players with the kind of balls I like to be set up with, specifically and especially situations where I or some player could reach the ball in the air moving in the same direction as the ball, with me or the player getting to the ball either before or after it bounces.
@2005 David Virgil Hobbs
(aw come on Franz, this is 3200 wds!!!)
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