30 Meters Before The Field Study Attacking Tactics 2012 European Football Championship Quarterfinals

2012Eurocup has just been put to an end and the history offootball is rewritten by Spain,the fourteenth champion of Eurocup.Four years’ waiting and efforts exploded when they became thechampion! In retrospect, we still remember the breathtaking matchesand goals that made us excited. Representing the top level of football,Eurocup is only second to world cup with each team on behalf of anation. The skills in the championship take the lead of thedevelopment of modern football to some extent.By searching for references, video observation and statisticalmethod,this paper analyzes the attack strategies of30m front courtplace kick of the knock-out round in2012Eurocup and focuses on thefeatures and trend of the strategy so as to provide some suggestionsand theoretical bases for Chinese football development.The research implies that:From the perspective of strategy of attack, place kick remainsthe main approach to goal, the excellent teams take advantage ofplace kick with no exception, which implies that the strength of theteam is closely related to the organization and attack strategy of placekick.At present,the improving strategies of the kicking in front courtin the football games, lead to all the teams in the world play more andmore attention in the defence of the front court. This adds moredifficulty to the successful application of place kick strategy and goal,which answers why the number of goals are reduced in this Eurocup.Modern and high-level football match calls for more advancedstrategy of place kick of30m front court.Free kick is one of the main means for front court attack. In thefree kick strategies of this Eurocup, the attack strategy of frequentshort-range pass and slide tackle <app:ds:slide tackle>, along withthe collective cooperation and interchange play for space is thehighlight of free kick front court strategy. In the cooperation of freekick, the team can not only kick out the ’leaf ball’ and ’banana ball’,but also break the defense by collective attack strategy.In the14free kick attack in the latest Eurocup, midfield shootand downfield shot are preferred by penalty players instead of upfieldshot. Out-of-bounds balls account for the most in place kick30m frontcourt. Short range out-of-bounds ball prepares for quick response ofattack, while the wide range forms more threats to the opposite goal.Teams have unique features in organizing out-of-bounds balls.