2023 Advent Calendar Find links to each post, the original articles, and the extended excerpts below. Come back each day for an excerpt from one of my top Total Football Analysis articles from the past four years. All links are provided in the comments.

RECORD SHATTERED ⛓️‍💥 This Sunday’s home finale is completely sold out, surpassing the attendance record for professional women’s sports in North Carolina with over 11,000 tickets sold!

Youngest in charge, coldest on the pitch. 🥶 Manaka Matsulubo is the @att Player of the Week after dropping 3 goals in a 4-1 win to become the youngest player to score a hat trick in #NWSLHistory. 🎩 🪄

WHO ELSE BUT MANAKA?!? 🪄 Manaka earns her second @NWSL Player of the Week honor of the season!

Per FBref, no one has more goal-creating actions in the NWSL this season than Manaka Matsukubo's 12. Manaka's 78 shot-creating actions also rank T-5th in the league.

Per Opta: Shinomi Koyama’s 89' goal for North Carolina against Orlando on Friday was the 7th lead-changing goal (equalizer or go-ahead) scored by the Courage after the 80' this season, the most by any team in a single regular season since 2017. Never count the Courage out.

Per Opta: Manaka Matsukubo (6 goals, 4 assists) is the 8th player to record 10 goal contributions in a single season for North Carolina and the first since Kerolin (13) in 2023. No other team has more than 6 different players with 10 goal contributions in a season since the

Welcome aboard, @paytonlinnehan!

I talk to dads often that tell me they hire PRIVATE hitting/fielding coaches for their 9 year olds. I think this is kind of crazy. The landscape of youth sports is broken in a lot of ways & this highlights it. Maybe I'm nostalgic, but some of THE BEST MEMORIES OF MY LIFE are

Here’s the Football Starts at Home©️Book for Free. If I were in a position of influence at any Youth Organization, especially all of those thousands of Rec Leagues that have hundreds of thousands of Kids U6 and below, being coached mostly by Volunteer Inexperienced Parents, I

HERE WE GO!🚨 I'm please to announce that I have my first coaching book coming out soon! 'The golden age of player development' gives coaches working in the foundation phase a comprehensive resource to help them and their players. Covering areas like, technical detail, player

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In Slot's Masterstroke I break down the tactics that helped Liverpool to their 20th league title in Arne Slot's very first season in charge. Tactics like the way they released pressure and created attacks down their right side. Or the way that they created triangles high on the

The zones. A general concept of the options available to a player when in certain zones. Of course the game has scope for so much creativity that a player could come up with something beautiful and amazing, which is why we all love the game so much.

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Tomorrow, I'll release my full scouting analysis for Barcelona's ideal winger⏳ In the meantime, try & guess some of the players in the final data rankings: 1. ? 2. 🇫🇷 3. ? 4. ? 5. 🇵🇹 6. 🇳🇬 7. ? 8. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 9. ? 10. 🇧🇪 Have fun and stay tuned 👀

This humble looking 4-4-2 could be the tactic of the future. Liverpool used it on a few occasions during the 2024-25 season. Twin false 10s giving the system flexibility and enabling the use of split strikers, who could narrow off when required or stay wide for the 10s to fill

As Liverpool get ready for the 2025-26 season we can still celebrate their and and Arne Slot's surprise Premier League success in 2024-25. Slot's Masterpiece breaks down every game. Analysing the nuances that helped to win the title. Nuances such as Salah's trivela, which was a

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