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For Moritz Kossmann, pressing is the primary defensive action in soccer.

It is, in his words, “an attempt at putting pressure on an opponent who has the ball so that they can't progress the ball up the field easily".

Moritz - who has now moved on from his role at Ubuntu Football Academy to become DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City - sat down with Steph Fairbairn to discuss collective pressing strategies, individual pressing principles and how to coach it all...