Role of a Goalkeeper in Defensive Actions Trought Central Zones : Undergraduate Thesis

U nogometnoj igri postoje razne taktičke solucije kako nadigrati obranu i postići pogodak. Glavni cilj ekipe u napadu je loptu na bilo koji način dovesti do napadača koji se nalazi najbliže golu kako bi imali što veću šansu za postizanje pogotka. Obzirom da je najbrži put do gola kroz središte terena, taj dio obrana treba najbolje zaštititi. Zajedno s obranom vratar kao posljednji igrač ima posebne zadatke na koje se može pozitivno utjecati trenažnim procesom. Zbog važnosti višestranog treninga, na ovaj način mogu se u situacijskom treningu vježbati tehničko-taktički elementi kroz zabavan i svim generacijama primjeren trening. U nogometnoj igri vratarska se pozicija posebno ističe svojim tehničko-taktičkim zahtjevima. Moderan vratar treba imati visoku razinu usvojenosti specifične vratarske tehnike, ali sve više se ističe i važnost taktičke obučenosti. Gotovo svi nogometni treneri uviđaju prednosti koje donosi vratar koji je sposoban djelovati na cijelome području vlastite polovice, kako napadački, tako i obrambeno. Rad sadrži podjelu i opis centralnih zona sa pripadajućim zadaćama i kretnjama vratara unutar istih te primjer vježbi odnosno trenažne jedinice za obradu obrambenih zadataka unutar centralne zone. U ovom radu cilj je prikazati ulogu vratara u obrambenim akcijama. Rad se bazira na postavljanju vratara unutar kaznenog prostora kada protivnička momčad ima posjed i napada kroz centralne zone nogometnog igrališta.In football game there are many tactical solutions regarding beating the defence and scoring a goal. The main focus of an attacking team is to transfer a ball to attacker who is the closest to goal so the team has the biggest chance of scoring a goal. Considering the closest route to a goal is trough middle of a field, defence has to protect it the most. Together with the defence, goalkeeper as the last player has special tasks that can be positively influenced by training. With importance of multi layered training, by doing such work, situational training can be combined with development on technical and tactical areas of the game in fun way so that is appropriate for all the generations. In football game goalkeepers’ position especially stands out with its technical and tactical requests. Modern day goalkeeper should have highly developed level of specific goalkeeper technique, but in the modern day more emphasises is on tactical part of the game. Almost every coach by now sees the opportunities that such goalkeeper brings to the game, with its ability to control whole half of the pitch, both attacking and defensive wise. Paper consist of two parts: first being differences between the central zones and their specifications with goalkeepers’ tasks among the zones and second part about training methods and examples of training exercise to work on defensive actions when opponent is in central zones. The goal of this paper is to show the role of a football goalkeeper in defensive plays. The main part of this paper is about positioning goalkeeper in his box when opponent is in the possession of a ball and is located in central zones of a football field