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Football errors often look obvious but stem from different underlying causes. A four-category framework helps coaches separate execution, choice, spacing and body-orientation problems when reviewing t...

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Jamie Hamilton: But the outrage masks complicity. ‘Tactical analysis’ has been on course for this moment for decades, maybe over a century. Ever since its formalisation, football thinkers have tri...

Mark O’Sullivan: Constraints were first categorised by Newell in 1986 (14) (see Figure 1) as: Individual (e.g., height, speed, cognition, emotions and motivation,) Task (e.g., specific...

This video makes me want to experiment with local open-source AI models and ditch the $19.99 subscription to ChatGPT. The video is inspiring because I never knew any of that was possible right now on...

Ahmed Walid for The Athletic: Speaking from his (and Odegaard’s) home country of Norway, Morten Gamst Pedersen says he rates Arsenal’s attacking set pieces as the best in the league, with their de...

Jamie Hamilton on the Training Ground Guru Podcast discussing the differences in embracing chaos between positionism and relationism: […] Again, people might be familiar with Jonathan Wilson’s boo...

Opta Analyst: The result, however, is less actual football than in any other season in recent memory. The ball has been in play for a lower percentage of overall match time (54.8%) than in any oth...

The Athletic: Several such sources said players were upset to find they now had little freedom to express their qualities on the pitch, contrasting Alonso’s more demanding and rigid approach to th...

I’m convinced that relational principles will shape the future of coaching in football and we’ll need more guides like this.

Paul MacInnes for The Guardian: The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has discussed the possibility of limiting how long a player can spend on a throw-in, in a bid to increase the am...

David Segar for Opta Analyst: Virgil van Dijk has won at least seven more aerial duels than any other player in the Premier League this season (46 of 59 – 78%), while his centre-back partner Ibrah...

I don’t want to watch teams play to win corners and throw-ins and then take their sweet old time taking said corners and throw-ins. I want the ball in play. I don’t want to see players descend into th...

Pau Cubarsí on what makes learning in La Masia so special: All the coaches focus a lot on teaching the small details, showing you the big difference they make in our game. For me, hiding my passes...

Water should be free and this is an incredible concept for a real problem. This company, FreeWater, packages water in a carton and sells it free to the consumer. Each carton of water is paid for by a...

The Athletic: In the 12 weeks between October 5 and December 25, United will play only one home match on a weekend — against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday. During that period, United have ...