Sam
@11v11Sam
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⚽ Tactics + Development. Previous: Soccer Analyst, Columnist, Strategist, Product. Currently: Soccer Coach, scout, & edtech solutions architect.
Joined September 2015
Putting a foot on top of the ball to manipulate 3 defenders and freeze another 3
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“ I’ve embraced the idea that myself and players can have different personalities but what we can’t have is different mindsets,” Mike Vrabel Culture doesn’t negotiate with mindset.
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“To know what to teach, you have to know what the game contains, because the only thing you have to teach is what the game contains.” - Marcelo Bielsa American football is definitely more of a coach's game but this shows the coaching craft really well. https://t.co/9TKaMd5DAf
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🐘 The Alabama Process → All 430 pages ✔ How to practice ✔ How to meet ✔ How to prepare ✔ How to behave Comment BAMA - I'll send ⬇️
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🔵 Brighton & Hove Albion Fun 1v1 Agility Relay (Something Different) ⚔️ Attacker chooses the pole to race around 🏃♂️ Defender must react, copy, and recover to deny the finish 🔁 Progression: race around two poles to increase speed/challenge 📝 Get more training sessions here 👉
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Pablo Hernández, on the lesson Marcelo Bielsa taught him at Leeds: "One day, we went to training, and he divided us into groups of 3 or 4 players. He gave each group giant garbage bags and told us to go around the training complex collecting ALL THE TRASH we could find. We
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Understand dynamics at play during the turbulence of the match. Don't overly stress structure, but don't under stress training chaos.
"McKennie understands everything in the turbulence of the match, those are real situations, not when you bring out numbers, IP, OOP, those are numbers which influence the value of the match, in that moment nothing happens..the chaos..uncertainty..those are the true situations."😎
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1st minute of Middlesbrough away to WBA. Heavily Relationist attacking intentions from Kim Hellberg's team.
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Lautstark und hochengagiert: 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 Albert Riera! 👀💥 Mehr Einblicke in die erste Einheit unter dem neuen Cheftrainer – jetzt auf https://t.co/WNY6TSfmRB
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"The best player is the player that decides better"
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A nice combination of self-expression and structure
🔵🔴 Paris Saint Germain Attacking Patterns Setup 📝 Get more training sessions here 👉 https://t.co/eMIfYQAyFl
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🗣️ New Eintract Frankfurt manager, Albert Riera, giving a pre-match team-talk. You'd run through brick walls for this man. https://t.co/tQANtFOygW
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"The best player is the player that decides better"
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Relationship to the ball is not rated highly enough.
Arsene Wenger: THIS is why technique & details are so important 🇫🇷🗣️ [align_performance_/IG]
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"McKennie understands everything in the turbulence of the match, those are real situations, not when you bring out numbers, IP, OOP, those are numbers which influence the value of the match, in that moment nothing happens..the chaos..uncertainty..those are the true situations."😎
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Win each individual 1 v 1 action.
Everyone talks about duels. Duels. Duels. Duels. 🗣️⚔️ But somehow we only mean one thing: 👉 winning the ball defensively. What about the other duel? 🤔 The one with the ball. When I’m pressed. When I keep it. When I don’t lose it. When I make one extra pass. That’s a duel too.
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Playing anything, a sport or an instrument, as a purely transactional endeavor will never allow someone to reach their full potential.
Stephen King on when he knew his son wouldn’t pursue learning an instrument into adulthood and pursue mastery. Re: Youth Development and players that continue for the love of the game. Reminds me of Michael Jordan’s “for the love of the game” clause in his contract that allowed
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Bodø/Glimt has to be one of the best examples ever that continuity in leadership (same head coach for 8 consecutive years), and playing style (fluent 4-3-3 in attack with zonal defense), over many years, can lead to amazing results. Incredible!
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