Passing Quality In The Area Of 30ms From The Opposing Goal Line During 2006 Football World Cup

Pass is the mostly used and one of predominant skills in modern football games. According to statistics, after receiving the ball, about 80% of players will pass to their teammate, and 20% will dribble or shoot. It's been proved by numerous experts that the area of 30 meters from opposing goal line is most effective, and can best test a team's efficiency. It is also the key competent area between attack and defense, therefore, study on the pass in this area appeared important.World Cup is the highest level of the world foot games, represents the direction of modern football development, and furthermore, it is also a window to prospect and analyze the feature and future of modern football. This paper, by adopting the methods of reviewing former literature, kinescoping, statistic, and compared analyzing etc., Studied the characters and rules about passing direction, distance, state etc. in the Area of 30ms from the Opposing Goal Line in 64 soccer matches during 2006 Football World Cup. It finds that, the pass times in this area are relevant to the winning and rank, and more in elimination series than in group matches; in continuing passes, most of them happened with twice or 4 times'pass, and the frequency decreased with passing times increased. There are few directly using of continued passes in it. When games became hot, players will mainly adjust their pass and pass to his teammates accurately. Passing times will increase gently with time, especially in the period of last 15 minutes. Passing times distinctly varied in different time period in elimination series and group matches. There is a prominent difference between the options of different passing direction; cross pass is mostly used and most efficient; back pass can be made with the highest success percentage and more efficient; close pass is mainly used in moving plays; long and high pass is mostly used in corners and free kicks; curved pass is used in most cases; throw in usually adopt short distance. Main ways used in passes are flick and inside of foot and frequently use abnormal skills; pass in the middle of the field. often use ground pass; passes happened on the right side are more than that on the left side, and more efficient; players in elimination series have a higher capability to deal with the ball; there are more passes to the opponent-players'back position in group matches than in elimination series.