How important is verbal communication between the defenders and goalkeeper?
SPAVENTA: Verbal communication is extremely important between the defenders and goalkeeper, especially on crosses and corners. We are fortunate enough to have an amazing goalkeeper behind us who isn’t afraid to speak up and instruct our defensive line on when to step up and when to back off from balls. As far as our defensive line is with talking, we have definitely become much more confident on and off the ball as we have progressed into the season and the more we play with each other the more comfortable we have become with coaching one another and talking with our goalkeeper. Without communication between the defenders and the goalkeeper it is hard to stay organized and it becomes very easy to make simple mistakes such as not going for a ball when we should. Q: Your team is very young as a whole. What do you think it’s capable of this year and what do you see as the keys to reaching that potential? SPAVENTA: Although our team is young, we don’t play young by any means. All of our ne
