How did we get here? And what happens next? Here — to help answer those questions — is The Athletic’s complete guide to playing out from the back. Tactical innovations can come from various ...

Playing the bal out of the back has been a huge problem for the USMNT without Sergiño Dest and Antonee Robinson and without ...

Like hotel-room wallpaper, playing out from the back should go unnoticed. When done well, the strategy draws no comment but done badly it ruins weekends. This asymmetry makes it football’s most ...

“A lot of youth soccer had the model completely flipped ... or Tony Lepore or somebody told ’em they had to play out of the back.” That instruction, Hackworth argues, was misunderstood.

I can't knock Chelsea's start but they've got to change this obsession with playing out of the back. You go and watch them and you're squeezing your programme every time they try it. They pass out ...