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0:00 There's another super important defensive job that they have that a lot of people overlook and that job is to defend the other team's center backs in the attacking zone in the attacking half
0:11 of the field. The nine's job is to be the player that hunts the ball that tries to put pressure on the ball and tries to if not win it back force play
0:19 in one direction. But in this case, here's a goal kick where they've come in with this curved run and now forced play to one side making it hard for the other
0:27 team to go the other way. So that's their first defensive duty is being first to the ball when it's in the attacking half of the field and we've
0:35 lost the ball and they're anywhere near it. There's another super important defensive job that they have that a lot of people overlook and that job is to
0:44 defend the other team's center backs. If that nine is not diligent and has not taken up this position here, it's an easy pass back to the center back who
0:54 may be able to swing the ball around to the other side of the field to change fields, change the point of attack.
1:00 Their job laying nice and high and defending those other center backs makes that back pass super difficult and makes your other defenders jobs a little bit easier because they know if they can win
1:11 that ball back, they don't have an easy out because they're in a good defensive position. They're also in a good offensive position because when we win this ball and we now have get this ball
1:23 up, they're in a perfect position to spring the counterattack to receive that outlet to relieve the pressure because they're already up high up the field occupying the other two center backs,
1:34 which means we get the ball back and restart our attack that much more.
1:38 Again, turning that defense into
