As we put a close to 2018, I'd like to re-share all of the articles from this year.
I am very proud of them all and they all have helped me to learn a little bit more about this sport and everything it entails.
Cheers to 2018 and bring on 2019 🥂
IJAS's 2018 Thread Here! 👇
Guardiola's Class
🗣 "Since that 2007 coaching clinic, Pep Guardiola has singlehandedly changed how football is played. Luckily for us, someone filmed this once in a lifetime clinic and the following findings are those ideas preached on that cloudy day." itsjustasport.com/home/2018/11/5…
Child Psychology 101 for Every Youth Coach
🗣 "I know what you might be thinking, ‘I’m just a football coach. I don’t have the time or energy to study psychology in my free time.' Well, this article is for you." ...
🗣 "If you are constantly questioning the intentions of your actions and words, you begin to have a greater understanding of yourself and why you do things." ...
🗣 "The footballer is immersed in a chaotic situation full of visual and auditory cues which he or she must decipher and begin to recognize patterns to gradually become fluent in the language of football." ...
🗣 "My question is at what point in our need to control every aspect of the sport and how we teach young people to play it did we take the ball away?" ...
🗣 "If you were to ask any player in the world what the most important thing in football is, they would all say the ball. So what better bait than the one thing every player wants. " ...
🗣 "What if I told you it’s not the ball that pulls defenders out of position and creates space, but instead the possibility of the ball, the possibility of danger?" ...
🗣 "Have you ever seen that optical illusion what looks like a rabbit to some and a duck to others? Sergio Ramos causes a similar reaction in people." ...
Counterattacking: The Result of Indivisible Football
🗣 "One of the most important concepts of positional play is the idea that football is composed of fluid, continuous actions which cannot be separated." ...
Day 4 of the Club World Cup.
Each day, I’m sharing what stood out through the lens of a coach.
Today: Fluminense vs. Borussia Dortmund
A thread on 3-box-3 overloads, wide groupings, individual escape, and possession patience 🧵
Fluminense recover from their high press (very effective)
They connect on the left, recycle to the backline, then re-enter the middle
A midfield run breaks the line, nearly a great chance
This is what their identity looks like: pause, reset, then exploit
I loved watching Arias and Canobbio. Here Arias in tight space. Sideline. Back to goal.
Most teams go backward here. Arias doesn’t. He waits, feints, and weaves his way out, carrying the ball centrally.
Doesn’t just escape, he progresses.