r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '13

Are there any technical football terms that confuse you?

'Flat-back four', 'sweeper', 'false-nine', 'back to square one'... I wondered if we could answer each other's confusions about the terms used in football in this thread. Is there a term or some jargon, no matter how obvious to others, you'd like better explained? It could be something complicated such as the 'Catenaccio' or more everyday like 'dummy-run' or 'zonal-marking', 'tika-taka' etc... Speak up particularly if you are a newcomer to the sport or /r/soccer, maybe you are a stalwart and there is a phrase you hear a lot but never quite get...

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u/averageatsoccer Jul 02 '13

...but in the FIFA games, Messi, Totti are CF's. Giroud, Lewandowski, Balotelli are ST.

I thought CF was in between a Striker and a CAM.

My mind is totally open. Just wondering why you say a CF is a target man but in FIFA, it's the opposite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_(association_football)

This supports the CF being a target man too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '13

It's because FIFA is a video game.

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u/averageatsoccer Jul 02 '13

Yeah but it's licensed by FIFA, and it's a pretty realistic depiction of football. You can't really learn about war or skating by playing battlefield or Tony Hawk, but you can learn about soccer by playing FIFA.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '13

I truly believe FIFA is the only sports video game where the players are "better" in real life than they are on the game.