How do you define technical ability?

[Styles 9,790]

Are you serious with Torres, on the ball he's more like Gervinho, ok he can fool some defenders with their pace and the fact that temselves don't know what they will do and are not really in full control when they drive with the ball at their feet.

Against Everton, Torres made me smile when he was on the left edge of the box with the ball at the outside of his foot, he was trying to go towards the box but he had to come backwards three times because the ball was moving sideways and not forward

Haha I know exactly what you're talking about and that was hilarious. It was second half on the left side. Three times he tried to dribble but each time he couldn't get the ball to move in the direction he wanted. I think even the fans started laughing at that point.

If I could sum it in a gif it would be this

[Badboy 1,526]

DUTCH MAN ! Berkamp... Van Persie.... Van Basten I would say if you want to see technical quality look no further then the Netherlands... you will see the answer in action not words !

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Good question.

For me, technical ability is about having awareness and a good peripheral vision. A player with technical ability should be able to know what his next move will be before having taken the move before that. He will possess excellent passing qualities, good first touch instincts, 1-touch play perhaps. Most crucially, he'll 90% of the time know when to make the right pass, when to shoot or when to hold up play.

The players I then think we have that present these qualities are:

1. Luiz
2. Mata
3. Oscar
4. Hazard

I'd also co-sign what Madmax said and include Azpilicueta.

[Sheva. 5,373]

Ramires is the perfect example of a player with shitty technical ability lol.

[JDY 1,290]

Only Mata, Hazard, and Luiz. Terry is also very underrated technically.

Oscar's first touch is too inconsistent.

[communicate 2,703]

I thought we have plenty of Football Manager gamer in this forum

FM summarize player perfectly in my opinion, they separate player attributes based on their technical,mental and physical attributes.

Just use this chart

[The Skipper 20,609]

DUTCH MAN ! Berkamp... Van Persie.... Van Basten I would say if you want to see technical quality look no further then the Netherlands... you will see the answer in action not words !

This.

Close the damn thread already .

[Dion 2,476]

Bergkamp had one of the best first touches I've ever seen. He would often beat defenders with his first touch alone, he was a beast.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

I'm assuming you mean an individuals technical ability yeah.... technical ability can really be anything

Anyway this is what I think falls under 'technical ability':

first touch,

ball control,

awareness,

vision,

passing,

crossing,

decision making - in terms of where and when to pass/how the player executes the pass etc.

[manpe 10,861]

A technically good player, for me, is someone who can pull off something that he thinks and wants to do in his head. For example, if a player sees an open player 50 yards ahead, and decides to pass to him, and most of the times he gets this pass right, then he is technically gifted in that area. Same can be said for dribbling, if you want to get past a player, and if your feet and body obey your thoughts, you are technically sound. If you shoot on target a lot and score many goals, we can say he has great shooting technique. Often you see average players whose intentions are clear, but they seldom execute it as they intended, they aren't technically talented.

So in short words: Technique, for me, is a player's ability to make the feet do what the head tells them to do.

[Styles 9,790]

I'm assuming you mean an individuals technical ability yeah.... technical ability can really be anything

Anyway this is what I think falls under 'technical ability':

first touch,

ball control,

awareness,

vision,

passing,

crossing,

decision making - in terms of where and when to pass/how the player executes the pass etc.

Yeah that's more or less what I'm talking about. Now what players from our squad would you say meet that criteria?

[dumps 284]

Football Manager can define technical ability for you

in terms of who has it, every single player in our team as it to some extent, just in different areas. You wouldn't make it as a professional footballer without any kind of technical ability.

some people are just more creative and have more flare than others. look at Hazard, hes got tricks and step overs coming out his ass, Then you got John Terry. both top quality players but with a different style and technical ability.

How i personally define it? im not really sure, i think its to do with how a player is with the ball, and how consistent they are at doing something positive with it. Mikel, on the ball, 9 times out of 10, will pass backwards or sideways, thats not very positive BUT he is consistent with it. Luiz, very positive on the ball, but not very consistent. Mata, Hazard and Oscar are all good on the ball and are positive as well as consistent (if you exclude pressure and challenges form defenders).