Concepts related to the control that a team is exercising through its game.
In this section we will discuss the meaning of three different concepts that are often used as synonyms when they are not, and which refer to the control that a team exercises collectively through its game.
- Match control: A concept that manifests itself in the defensive phase of the competition units, so that no clear options of control of the ball are offered, nor of completion to the opposing team.
- Ball Control: A concept that manifests itself during the offensive phase of the competition units, so that the team does not lose possession of the ball until the pre-finishing action in the completion area.
- Game Control: A concept that refers to the team's mastery of the offensive and defensive phases of each competition unit by making as few errors as possible in the aspects described.
These concepts have a generic and global component, differing in this way from the concept of possession of the ball, which has a strictly individual meaning. In this sense we will call the "control" of the ball as: RECEPTION and PROTECTION.
The three concepts are especially important when we talk about the short play style, since in either of the other two styles its importance is considerably reduced.