{"id":61,"date":"2022-05-24T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/?p=61"},"modified":"2022-07-12T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:01:21","slug":"tips-on-how-to-play-in-central-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Tips on how to play in central defence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This video covers tips on how to play in the centre of defence. It covers both the attacking and defensive phases of the game, positioning, anticipation, communication, and dealing with the opposing strikers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ignore the bits about heading that isn&#8217;t relevant just yet, but pay special attention to the parts about positioning from goal kicks, dropping deep to create an angle to help your fullback and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"LEARN HOW TO BE A TOP CENTRE BACK \ud83d\udcaa | KitLab\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lKP4xY_XJ_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video covers tips on how to play in the centre of defence. It covers both the attacking and defensive phases of the game, positioning, anticipation, communication, and dealing with the opposing strikers. Ignore the bits about heading that isn&#8217;t relevant just yet, but pay special attention to the parts about positioning from goal kicks, [&hellip;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/?p=61\" title=\"Permanent Link to: Tips on how to play in central defence\">&rarr;Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defender","category-defending","category-marking"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-football-coach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}