The basis of competitive activity in team play sports, in particular in football are technical and tactical actions. Therefore, football specialists pay considerable attention to defining their model characteristics. It is worth noting that the total number of technical and tactical actions per match for qualified football players, first of all, depends on the class of opponents and the class of players performing these actions. The results of the research allowed us to develop quantitative

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... l characteristics of the competitive activity of the players of the defense of three levels - minimum, average and maximum model, which allows to plan the overall strategy of team preparation, which includes the selection of rational means and methods of preparation, planning of training and competitive loads, as well as the choice of means techniques of game in defense. The developed model characteristics can serve as criteria for the control of defensive technical and tactical actions in order to improve the system of training the players of the line of defense and operational correction of the competitive activity of the team defenders. The formation of the model characteristics was taken into account the stance of the player and the minimum and maximum indicators of his playing activities both in the matches of the domestic championship and in the Euro-cup matches. Identifying the correlation between current indicators of volume and the effectiveness of the game action of players of the line of defense with the intensity, responsibility of the game activity, and the characteristics of the opponents' respective actions is a prospect for further research in this direction. In practice, methods of operational correction of game actions during competitions, based on operational control over various parameters of technical and tactical actions and effectiveness of the game of the whole team, are subject to further study and improvement.