Jonathan Gough

Audere Est Facere....

[Carlon Carpenter @CarlonCarpenter]

Quickly scrubbed through the game & painted some pictures of some of the dilemmas the US build creates (& can potentially create in the WC):

- Lower phase build w/ dynamic movement & ball carrying
- 3-2 mid phase structure & creating free CH down the side
- General 'directness'

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

This is coaching gold from Emma Hayes.

"If we choose easy, we stay home in nicey nicey environments...All of this around us is for us...This is the moment for us as a group we go one level harder."

Growth rarely asks us to get comfortable. It asks us to raise our standard.

📹: USWNT

[Yahoo Soccer @FCYahoo]

USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino on building culture before tactics 🇺🇸

(via U.S. Soccer/Veritone)

[Jack @Jackkk]

Tom Hanks shares the best advice he’s ever received

“Throw deep. If you’re gonna do it, do it”

“If you have the chance, do it. Don’t pause. If you’ve got an instinct, go at it”

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

This video will change your life:

[Isaac chidi @Isaacdgreatxx]

🎬📺 True friendship brings you warmth and hope

[LUIS ENRIQUE لويس إنريكي @fillkd]

🚨⚠️— لويس انريكي من الوثائقي يشرح في هذا المقطع عن كيفية اضطراره للتكيّف مع طبيعة مبابي في بناء هيكل الضغط العالي:

"نحن مقيدون بوضوح في عملية الضغط 1x1 (لاعب ضد لاعب) والسبب هو كيليان مبابي.

كيليان مبابي ليس لاعباً يدافع، هو لم يدافع أبداً، والدفاع يجهده كثيراً.

لذلك، قمت بملائمة وتكييف المنظومة الدفاعية لكي يركض كيليان مبابي بأقل قدر ممكن. لماذا؟ لأنه لاعب عالمي، يسجل 50 هدفاً ويصنع 25 تمريرة حاسمة."

"لكن في الأدوار المتقدمة في دوري الأبطال ولاننا لانريد أن نخسر خطورتنا بالضغط فقد غيرت طريقة الضغط واخبرت مبابي: 'كيليان، إذا لم تركض، فلن ننجح في ذلك!' ؛هكذا تسير الأمور."

“يمكنك أن تبني المنظومة حول اللاعب النجم، لكن لا يمكنك التضحية بالمنظومة من أجله”. 🧠

[Süleyman Mansuroğlu @suleymansur15]

“Bir gün oturacağım, kendimi tebrik edeceğim, gülümseyip diyeceğim ki:
‘Zordu ama başardım.’ ”

[ACHRAF @LamdarhriAchraf]

ICYMI, I wrote how Bayern Munich and PSG exploited each others man-marking approches, which I think Arsenal may replicate some of the solutions Kompany came up against Enrique.

[Somto X @SomtoCS]

Using your dying breath to have your murderer name himself is absolutely bad ass

[S. @SebC__]

I hate that there's halfwits spouting drivel who never worked in football.

If you see that at grassroots, you jump on the opportunity to sign a player who can defend space that well in a suicidal situation.

And will glaze any centre back for putting soles on the ball

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

"Signing Robbo taught me so much... he came into my office and said 'Boss, I'm working really hard every day and I don't get a chance?'... that was the moment the penny dropped for him."

One Of Us: Becoming Andy Robertson, free to watch on The Anfield Wrap Youtube and App 📺

[S. @SebC__]

Enrique is a top coach. One of the best in the past 25 years with Ancelotti and Mourinho at empowering mavericks with a recognizable collective outlook.

You know it's a Enrique team, without being able to describe it with arrows and diagrams

That's the hardest thing in football

[S. @SebC__]

There's no "autopilot" mode.

The way if works is 🔗perception_action
❌️Not perception + action

The action *is* the perception, it's called an affordance.

Just like a door signals a possibility for action but the brain doesn't process "door + arm + clench it at 125°"

[ManUstock @manu_stock]

サー・アレックス「ヤバいヤバい、もうロナウドなんとかしろ！」
ロナウド「はい、ボス」

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"The Woman in a Black Dress" by artist Tatsuro Kiuchi

[PitchSavant @PitchSavant]

Le PSG est tactiquement trop avancé pour son époque. Je ne sais pas qui a formé Pep et Lucho, mais une chose est sûre : le plus fou des deux, c’est Lucho.

[S. @SebC__]

Mbappé and his family got his Monaco U17 coach sacked because he dared asking his excellency to track back.

You think he was gonna stop once at fucking Madrid ?