Zlatan Ibrahamovic
Source

Good day to everyone in this wonderful community. How are you all and your various families? I am wishing you all a blissful day ahead. I am so happy to participate in this interesting contest and I promise to do justice to it.

INTRODUCTION

The game of football is a game that combines all and different features of human characteristics. This includes:

• Agility.

• Stamina.

• Tenacity.

• Marauding etc.

As a lover of the game, there are specific qualities l like seeing in my type of player(s). These qualities sometimes can be the difference between winning and losing a game. And I would try as much as possible to analyze these characteristics.

QUALITIES I LOOK FOR IN A PLAYER(S)

It's unrealistic to expect many talents in a player. Every player has his/her potential, ability and natural skill in a specific positional play. For example, I don't expect a striker to be a defender, but in some tough matches, and as a team player, a striker can help defend or intercept an attack that may cost them to lose the match. That been said, let me highlight the qualities I look forward in a player.

STAMINA

According to Oxford languages dictionary, stamina was defined as "the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort." In application, I love a player with lots of stamina. Especially applicable in my view is in the defense. My center backs(CB), Left backs(LB), right backs(RB) should all have plenty of stamina. A lack of it gives the opponents high morales to attack and pile in series of attacks. Ngolo Kante of Chelsea Fc and James Milner are my favorites when it comes to stamina. Each can play more than 120minutes and more.

Ngolo kante and James Milner players with strong stamina
Source

AGILITY

Oxford languages dictionary, defines agility as "ability to move quickly and easily." A team with agile players, tend to win the balls quickly, pass quickly, and attack quickly too. This leaves the opponent scared and clueless on how to curtail their opponents attacks. Adama Traore of Wolverhampton is my choice when it comes to agility in the game. His such a fast face player.

Adama Traore fast pace and agile player
Source

TEAM PLAYER/TEAM WORKER

Wikipedia defines teamwork as " the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way". In application, a player who has exceptional skill or talent should be able to key in such skill to achieve the common goal of the team. He should not be selfish with the ball. He should work with the teams formation and tactics. Kelvin de Bruyne is a great team worker, he passes the ball unselfishly and shots when he has the chance.

Screenshot of Kelvin De Bruyne great team player
Source

MARAUDING

The Cambridge dictionary defines marauding as " going from one place to another killing or using violence, stealing, and destroying". In this case not "killings" literally or literally "destroying" but destroying the opponents defense, and scoring. Strikers need to be predatory in the 18 yard box. Diego Costa for me is a nightmare to defenders. You rarely get the ball from him when in the box. Another predatory striker is Zlatan Ibrahamovic. He has presence, tenacity and height making it difficult for defender to mark him. Secondly, he has powerful shot power.

Diego Costa a marauding striker
Source

CONCLUSION

The football game is a very interest game, it an avenue for displaying various techniques and tactics in other to achieve a common goal of a team, which is winning. You may have other qualities you want or admire in a player, tenacity, response, shot power, height, heading just to mention a few. But for me, these four mentioned qualities is what I search for in my type of player.