A coach breaks down how center midfielders should build recruiting highlight reels: open with a goal, show passing sequences and assists, then demonstrate possession control and dictation. Since midfielders create fewer flashy moments than forwards, compress full-game footage into every-touch fast-forwards so coaches can scan your impact quickly.
Hey coach, what should be my highlight video as a center mid? I'm really good at a lot of things, but I just don't know what to put in my video. Okay, let me break it down for you. The very first clip in your highlight video should be you scoring a banger from outside the box if you're a center mid. And if you don't have that, give us a different goal that you scored. But if you want to impress coaches, a goal from outside the box is key. Second is we want to see passes from the center circle being pinged out to the right back, left back on a going run, and/or into the striker in behind that leads to an assist or a second assist, meaning your pass then leads to a pass, which then leads to a goal. Number 3 is we want to see you dictate. So we want to see a sequence in which you get the ball, you get it back, you play it over there, fast forward the clip a little bit, then you get it back again, and then it ends in something, a shot or something like it. And then finally, you can then give us your defending. But in a highlight video, we don't really want to see your defending tackles until halfway through the video. We have to see your ability on the ball. Now I'm going to add, you're center mid, you're not going to dribble past a lot of players. I didn't even mention dribbling. I didn't even mention passing into players' feet. That's not that impressive as a center mid. What is impressive though is your full game. Okay, but like, how do I send my full game? Are they going to watch my full game? It's a long game. Very good. They're not going to watch your full game. So what you're going to have to do as a center mid specifically is make more every-touch videos than a striker or a winger, because guess what? You're not going to have as many highlights. I'm a defensive center mid when I was playing, so I made a bunch of every-touch videos. I feel like I'm the pioneer of them because I talk about them all the time, and the college coaches love them because it fast-forward what otherwise it would take them forever. And you have to think of something called activation energy. If a coach sees a trace video that's 90 minutes and you're not circled, are they more likely to watch that even if they really like you, or are they more likely to watch a fast-forwarded version of it with every touch clipped? The second one, obviously. So we're just making their life easier. When they want to watch a full game video, they will tell you, and then you will send it. If you'd like more help playing Call of Tarkov, give me a call, links in the bio.
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