FIBONACCI FOOTBALL

The web site will show better how to performe Fibonacci football with the roll of every playing position.

OFFENSIVE FORMATIONS

The Fibonacci football have a system with 1 central defender, 2 wing backs, 1 defensive midfielder, 2 creative midfielders, 2 wings and 2 strikers, being an option to use a central striker or 2 attacking midfielders.

The defensive system will depend on the formation of the rival team, as will be man-to-man coverage to block the pass circuit and get possession of the ball quickly.

The offensive formation of this particular system has a diagram to quickly change to the defensive formation against every football system.

OFFENSIVE

​​​The offensive tendency will be ball possession by eliminating a player from the traditional system of 4 defenders playing with one central defender and wing-backs to get an extra player in the front of the court to have more control of the ball.

The team have to rotate the ball in rival area to the wings and wing-backs to look for occasion of danger by the sides but if not having possibilities to pass the ball again to the center of the field. Diagonal movements of the attackers and midfielders to also create danger options through the center of the field while the rotation like a basketball offensive play.

The traditional wings have a tendency of running to the end by themself getting desperate to cross or losing the ball then the Fibonacci football have the instruction to pass the ball to the center again to do not lose control.

The counterattacks will be based on the speed of the wings to start the play, always passing the ball through the center to go the sides and then giving rotation to the other wing. That should be the natural way to start a counter attack, rotating the ball to one side then to the center and back again to the other side to get high possibilities of scoring.​​​

PERSONAL DEFENSE

The defense will be high pressure and personal, meaning that the team will block from the front of the court and every team player will have the responsability to defend a single player to block the passing circuit.

DEFENSIVE STAIR

The system have a defensive stair to use the players in front of the court to have double team defense in the back when needed. The traditional teams have 2 or 3 defenders that never attack and also always a midfielder will have the tendency to defend, so there is a way to use the team players from the front to go down like on a stair to have the double team defense on the attackers of the opposing team.

The strikers will always have to go down leaving the defenders to cover the central midfielders of the rival team. The central midfielders are the ones are going to make the doublé covering to the strikers of the rival team.

OFFSIDE RULE

Fibonacci football will forget about the offside rule while defending. The coverage is personal, man by man and there is just one central defender on this particular system.

The defensive system being shared by more than one defender is vulnerable as they divide the responsability of the striker coverage and not just divided if not nullified in a lot of occasions. The tactic of the defenders to get the striker caught in offside have gave a lot of goals as consequences.

In attack the Fibonacci football will use the offside rule in favor. Whenever the players do an attacking natural movement then to come back from offside, they will have the tendency of confusing on prupose to the defenders as a visual distraction. The basquetball have a tactic call screen that consint on blocking using a teammate as obstacle, football do not allowed that contact then this tactic is about a visual screen.

STRIKER

There is two options on the Fibonacci football of how using the strikers in the front of the court. One of that options is having a central striker, an area specialist.

The central striker will help as a passing pivot and pressing the rival defense line to the top all the time.

The striker will focus defensively in one central defender when high pressure of the personal defense.

The striker Will be the fundamental piece of the defensive stair for double teams in defensive work, as need to go back to jump a layer to cover the midfielders instead the defenders as the 2 defenders never go to the front on play and allows double coverings to rival strikers.

ATTACK MIDFIELDER

The attacking midfielder it is the second striker but also the 4th central midfielder completing the populated midfield for ball possetion.

The principal function of this position is to be come from the back constructing the play with the other midfilders and be the principal attacker for the speed in penetration.

The most common attack is to use the teammates as a post to penetrate, leaving the area of the rival defense static after a good pass of first intention.

The second formation of the Fibonacci football have 2 defensive midfielders that allows extra ball possession.

The personal defense function will be to high pressure the defenders and under attack to go down changing coverings for the double team defense to the rival team strikers.

WINGS

Fibonacci football wings will be on top and well sided being in the front as tweezers pushing the rival team up.

The ball possession need to be completed by using the wings to make the ball run side to side on every situation, having possession in front of the court or in building an attack.

The wings need to be sided for the passing circuit but they are also extra strikers that need to be looking for the area when the ball is the other side.

The best description of a wing will be a fast and skillful crosser who knows how to score and how to handle the area.

The defensive function of the wings will be always covering the wing backs of the rival team.

Playing against catenaccio the defensive function will be covering the rival team stoppers and they will be available to go down in the defensive stair.

CENTRAL MIDFIELDERS

Fibonacci football requires 2 central midfielders and each of them with one side of the field, left and right. These midfielders should stay together at the same height in the center of the field divided in two.

Its function is to be the axis of the team being together side by side, on the back of the offensive midfielder and in front of to the defensive midfielder forming like a diamond shape. This populated midfield with passers will allow ball possession.

The personal defense function will be covering the central midfielders of the rival team. For the defensive stair will be leaving that covering position for the team strikers and going back for doing double coverings together with the team defenders to the rival strikers.

DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER

The defensive midfielder will be allways in front of the central defender and on the back of the 2 central midfielders giving them always the option to pass the ball back.

Will function as a pendulum sweaping the court up and down offensively and defensively being the penultimate defender and the bottom of the center of the field.

He will have to take care of the backs of the rest of the team and will be the offensive and defensive equilibrium

The personal defense fuction will be covering the second striker of the rival team.

WING-BACKS

The wing-backs will be part of the line on 3 defenders in the back sides of the court to unfold offensively as 2 extra wings.

Their speed will allow them to attack being 2 extra forwards to switch defensively fast.

The teams that play catenaccio style with 3 defenders in a lot of situations on attack, have the 2 stoppers few meters away from the rival area. The stoppers are central defenders regularly slow and not really skilled so the option is to use fast defenders that also have the capacity to attack as they can get close to the area easily for speed.

Whenever one of them is attacking, the other wingback will be need to place himself a few meters away the area to take care of counterattacks.

The personal defense function will be covering the wings of the rival team.

DEFENDER

The central defender is the last man standing for the team and it is required to be fast. The other 2 defenders that works as stoppers in the offensive they are 2 extra wings and the defensive midfielder is the penultimate defender.

The central defender have the full responsibility and will not play offsides, the rival always need to be cover.

The personal defense fuction will be covering the first striker of the rival team, waiting for back up by the central midfielders for double coverings with the defensive stair..

GOALKEEPER

​The Goalkeeper need to play up as the last man to pass the ball.

Always the ball will be passed through the ground to the defenders constructing an attack form the goal.

The ball never will be divided throwing it up.

The defense system is personal to recover the ball quickly, then the goalkeeper can be an extra forward depending on the defensive efficiency during the game and if the situation require it.​