Playmaker

From a playmaker is spoken in different team sports, when a player leads a team and is the center of the game the team.

Football

In football, one speaks of a playmaker when especially a player takes during a football game the task to control the game strategy of the team, and this initiates attacks, is coordinating the defensive behavior, distributed balls to the players, is possible at any time allusive prepared in penalty box and scored acts ideally also gates.

The playmaker has mostly the position in the central attacking midfielder ( midfielder ) and often wears jersey number 10 Sometimes the game makers will also no fixed position assigned. Playmaker usually have excellent technical skills, but must also be able to effectively interfere with committed and combative use of the opponent and motivate their team to selfless commitment.

In this classic expression of playmaker is usually a special player personality within the team and takes over within the team and management tasks.

In some - mostly newer - game systems is often dispensed with the typical " 10- Playmaker " - especially in systems that attack on heavily infested wings, but also in teams in which operate several outstanding midfielders with fast position changing and fast-paced advances make the game very varied.

So usually is a mixture of several equivalent players ( see previous examples) in the middle of the creative switching station. Here is developed the game through the rehearsed interaction of the player without direct leading figure with the subordinate players.

Many teams now go on to establish no more single player as playmaker. A key advantage is that it comes together creativity and technology by several players. However, this form of football is very much to transfer workout more intense and complicated than a player's typical playmaker role.

Examples of outstanding playmaker in football were Wolfgang Overath, Pele, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff and Zico.

In Italian football, there are two types of key players: the trequartista, a playmaker in a central attacking position and the regista a deeper standing playmaker who takes over defensive duties and from the depths of space thrusts forward.

Examples of trequartistas are Ronaldinho, Andrés Iniesta, Wesley Sneijder, Mesut Özil, Michel Platini, Kaká, Dragan Stojkovic, Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Baggio, Steven Gerrard and Francesco Totti.

Known registas are Xavi, Andrea Pirlo, Xabi Alonso, Luka Modrić and Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Handball

In Handball match the position in the central rear room ( back center of the room ) is designated playmaker.

Basketball

In basketball, the player who announces both moves and so directs the offensive play, called a playmaker, hence the designation as a point guard is. Usually it is the player in position 1, the so-called point - guard.

Volleyball

When volleyball is the controller, ie the position 3 ( III), the point guard. He takes typically the " second ball " and showed that an attacker ( 2/II rsp. 4/IV, Forward / offensive players ). The tactics of the little mouse controller goes two steps to the side and away from the network, if necessary, during the media player / central player (5 / V, defender / defensive player ) occupies its position, so now are some three attackers available.