 You know that each soccer position has its own specific number assigned to it? I've played soccer my whole life and honestly I didn't even know that for the longest time. But in this video I'm going to show you each position and the specific number assigned to it. Numbers assigned to each specific position and the reason you would want to know that is maybe you're watching football on tv and they're referring to different players, different positions as numbers and not just mentioning the position. Maybe you're watching an analyst speak about football so it's going to help you understand that as well. Also maybe your coach is giving tactical advice, he's talking about soccer tactics, football tactics and he's not referring to the positions, he's just referring to the numbers. So I'm going to give you a few different formations but the numbers of the positions are the same, the formation may shift a bit but the positions stay the same. So we'd go like this, the goalkeeper is number one, right full back number two, left full back number three, left center back number four, right center back number five and for these formations I'm just going to keep a back four but we'll do a couple different ones. One, two, three, four, five. Going into the midfield, six, eight, ten. The attacking midfielder is a ten, defensive midfielder is a six, the eight may go forward and join the ten, he may stay here with the six but specifically attacking midfielder is a ten, defensive midfielder is a six. The wingers, seven, eleven. Hey what's up I hope you're finding this content helpful, watch this all the way to the end if you want to find out which subscriber got this video's special shout out. Eleven and the striker is always number nine, the big goal scorer up top he is number nine. So let's just do a slight variation, we're playing in a four, two, three, one right now, if we went four, three, three it stays the same. Okay one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, ten, seven, eleven, nine. Sometimes the eight may go and join the ten and you might play with one defensive midfielder, he would be the six, this would be a ten and an eight in here and seven, eleven, nine. You could play a four, one, four, one with one defensive midfielder and it would be the same, a six, an eight and a ten in here, seven, eleven and the nine up top. Let's look at a traditional four, four, two. So the same from the back, one, two, three, four, five. Up top is the nine and the eleven would join him. Nine and eleven traditionally have been the two strikers because in the nineties eighties it was a lot of four, four, two, nine and eleven were usually up top. This would be a six and a ten in here, seven, eight, nine, eleven. So that's basically the different positions assigned to different numbers. So as I said, it's going to help you if anyone ever mentions maybe you're watching professional football on TV and the analyst or the commentator keeps mentioning the number six so he's such a good number six or the attacking number 10, he's so good on the ball, he's so creative. The big number nine up top, this is going to give you a better idea of those positions so you're not confused if you ever hear those terms. And also like I said, if I'm playing football there's 11 players on the pitch so that's why there's only 11 numbers here. Now obviously you can wear whatever number you want and nowadays players are getting higher and higher with their numbers, more ridiculous numbers and it's all good, wear whatever number you want but if you play right fullback maybe you want to select that number two. If you play left fullback three, centerbacks four and five, midfielder especially that defensive midfielder six, the attacking midfielder you're the number ten. The wingers are seven and eleven usually if you're playing with two wingers or if you're in a if you're in that 4-4-2 it would be that seven and that eight. But up top if you want to be the big goal scorer wear the number nine. Eleven's a cool number as well and at the end of the day you can wear whatever number you want but I hope you found this video helpful if you were looking for soccer positions with specific numbers. If you did please like, comment, share this video, subscribe to Progressive Soccer and I'll see you in the next video. This is the featured subscriber for this video. If you'd like to be featured in future videos hit that like button, drop a comment below and let me know how my videos have helped you improve and achieve more in this sport.