The Study On The Use Of Free Kick Attacking Tactics In The19th World Cup

Football is regarded as the world’s biggest sports, ever since the development ofmodern football in the UK, the game has been more and more competitive, and thetechniques and strategy have become more mature and stable. In the modern footballgame, free kick tactics have become one of the primary means of attack, the use of freekick in a game tend to affect the final result of the match. This paper studies the use offree kick tactics in the19th World Soccer Cup in South Africa, revealing the rules andcharacteristics of the use of the world’s advanced free kick tactics.The paper uses literature review, expert interviews, video observations,comparative analysis, mathematical statistics and other research methods to analyzethe19th World Cup, in order to study the use of free kick tactics. The results are asfollows.1. In the manner in attack, use free kick tactics to achieve goals has become anincreasingly important way in today’s football game，which would even decide thefinal outcome of the game. In the World Cup, the number of free kick goals hascovered nearly37%of total goals, which ranks the highest in the latest4World Cups.2. In attack of free kick, the kick still achieves the most goals and is the mostthreatening way; with the innovations of throw-in tactics of each team, this kind ofstatics is attracting more and more attentions by various teams and adopting in use. Itwill become the important trend in the future development of football; In addition,there are two classic examples of goal kick achieved a goal with assistances. It hasnever happened in the recent World Cups, which filled new vitality and led to a newdirection in the trends of statics research.3. In the method of free kick, in this WorldCup, the main methods of free kick is spin-based, which achieved the most goals in allkinds of free kicks.4. In the research of the placement area of free kick, it turns outthat free kicks and corner kicks mainly lands within the middle region; while throw-insmainly tend to land in small distance and relatively safe region.5. In other aspects,external factors such as high-tech means, human factors and the football star factorscould also affect free kick statics. And all these factors are particularly shown in thisWorld Cup.