When Dominic Kinnear slips out of his well-worn 4-4-2 and into something more comfortable, you know there is a darn good reason. The Houston Dynamo manager, who has long worshiped at the altar of the ...

Tactics in soccer are great. They are fascinating. Diving into them allows for a deeper look into the game, an embrace of the chess-match element inherent in the sport, and a whole new series of ...

We tend to spend disproportionate time on Toronto FC in Talking Tactics. It may seem like an uneven share among 18 MLS sides, especially considering that TFC now reside squarely in “We’ll get ‘em next ...

Since the innovation of the flat 4 in the late 1980’s, most professional and international teams have adopted the system as part of their standard tactics. In its most common evolution, the flat 4 is ...

Throughout the world, soccer strategy is a hot topic of conversation. There’s debate about employing a 4-3-3 versus the 4-2-3-1 or the trendy 3-5-2; playing possession soccer or absorbing pressure and ...

After much ado was made about United States men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann's apparent fundamentalist conversion to the good ol' 4-4-2 formation, the baker's son from Botnang tried a ...

Soccer continues to grow in popularity in the United States especially amongst the younger generation. But I have found that very few Americans really know much about the tactics that big time teams ...

TUCSON, Ariz. – Formations has been the buzzword of the week at the Desert Diamond Cup. The Sounders opened Saturday’s preseason match against Sporting Kansas City in an unfamiliar shape, and Twitter ...

Change can take a while to get used to. The Georgia soccer team is strong evidence of that, still searching for its first win of the season four games in. A new coaching staff has changed the ...