The Attacking Role Of The Goalkeepers From The Top Four Teams In 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil

The position of the goalkeeper is of great importance on the football field and is also the last line of defense team. The goalkeeper are supposed to be not only calm and stable, but alsofull of passion. In the early days of the football, the goalkeeper was asked to focus all hisattention and energy on keeping goal in order to prevent the other side to score. However, the goalkeeper is not only on duty at the gate. With the rapid development of football sport and with unceasing enhancementathletes technical level, the goalkeeper should be able to not only prevent but also attack. It requires the goalkeeper to be the all-rounder on the football field.The World Cup represents the highest level of today’s football sport in every four years.With the most outstanding national football teams of 32 countries together from all over the world,it shows the development trend and current situation of today’s football.It is known that the representative teams attending the World Cup are selected through a series of games. Each team try its nest to create the goals or score with all its effort.Every seemingly simple or the occasional goal reflects the reasonable and effective attack tactics arrangement of the team and embodies the individual and collective efforts and team cooperation. The strategy and tactics of each team, the team playing characteristics, comprehensive quality as well as the player himself superb technology reflect the highest level of today’s football. The goalkeeper is the last line of the team, which plays a vital role in the team’s offensive and defensive.Of the 20thBrazil World Cup in 2014, the teams which the goalkeeper Neuer （Germany）, Romero （Argentina）, Silayson （Holland）, Cesar （Brazil） belong to were the top four of the World Cup.At the same time, the four goalkeepers are very outstanding in the tournament so that the research is of great significance.Therefore,this paper studied the four goalkeepers, and by watching video and analysis,the writer found that:l.It is known that development trend of today’s goalkeeper tactics are always changing and improving, from Buffon and Cesar who have figure advantage and are good at control force and reaction, to Casey, Ochoa who are lack of figure advantage but are very flexible and good at passing balls precisely at a very wide range. Cillessen and Neuer represents the newest trend,which are called all-rounder. They take the goalkeeper, defender and midfielder in a whole and have superior physical and door technology to ensure the high rate of preventing the scores.They are also able to attack by throwing the ball and long pass.2.Of all the 28 races which the top four goalkeepers took part in the 20^thBrazil World Cup, there are two main features of their foot serve. One is in the defensive area. Neuer, Romero, Cillessen and Cesar chose to pass the ball to the defense and midfield and the success rate is more than 90% （backin the wing area is the 5 area and the8 area）. Two is in the offensive area, four goalkeepers pass the ball to different regions through combination the team’s strategy and tactics,the teammate’s height and speed and technique.3.In the tournament, the top four teams goalkeepers getting the ball either by hand or foot chose to serve ball through throwing the ball in an instant from defensive to offensive. Four goalkeepers are served the ball to zone 1 zone,2 zone,3 zone and 4 zone according to the team’s formation of play, and organized the attack by defender, midfielder and winger.4.In the tournament, when the top four teams’goalkeepers got the back pass, they chose to shift the ball to the other side of the 1 zone and 4 zone fullback or center halfback. Or through the long ball,they passed the ball to the areas of the 5 District and the 8 District winger.It is of great significance to study the main features of the top four teams’goalkeepers in the 20th Brazil World Cup football competition in order to get to know about attacking methods of the world cup high levels. After getting the purposeful data whichis as the goalkeeper training data, we can make the corrective and effectiveimprovement for the existence of a goalkeeper training in China and enhance the effect of training,to provide theoretical foundation for the goalkeepers’teaching and training of teenagers and college soccer teams.