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It's six for Liverpool! 😲

This game 🤯

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"He's a genius, he's number one."

Enzo Maresca discusses how the style of football in England has evolved and credits Pep Guardiola's influence as the key factor behind this change 👀

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England caps, replicas of titles, individual awards... 🏆

Inside Wayne Rooney's INCREDIBLE custom trophy room, filmed by son, Kai! 🤩

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Corberan v Lampard, 32 passes, goal #WBA

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"Players NEED to watch a lot of football."

Jermain Defoe reveals what he looks for in young footballers as a coach 🔎👀

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It's Manchester derby day! 🍿👀

Who are you backing? 👇

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Carlos Corberan Ball
Although they have drawn many games, it’s now just 2 defeats in their last 18.
This an excellent goal 👏🏼

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The best coaches in the world have a clear vision and the ability to turn that vision into reality.

In this series, I'll share what I've learned about team development.

Part 1: The Impossible Goal. ⬇️

It all starts with a vision. As a coach, knowing where you want to go is key.

And that vision should be a big, unattainable goal.

Here's why:

Vince Lombardi is one of the greatest coaches of all time. When he joined the Green Bay Packers, they had gone 11 seasons without a winning record. Lombardi turned the team around, and over the next nine years they won five NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls. At his first meeting, Lombardi said:

“We’re going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well, we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process, we will catch excellence.”

(Source ‘Creative Selection’ by Ken Kocienda)

Perfection is the goal. And in pursuing this goal, we become excellent.

Chasing perfection forces us to constantly grow:

"The goal is to strive for perfection, but you'll never achieve it. When you're completely familiar with a basic formation, doing everything right, you can then rehearse a new basic formation and try to consolidate the processes in such a way that they're almost perfect again.

There are always nuances, developments and things you should improve. I would find it rather frustrating if you could no longer optimize anything. The job would then be less fun. Challenges are important in life, to grow from them.”

- Julian Nagelsmann.

Choose a vision that excites you. Something impossible to achieve. Something you can always strive for.

“What I want, my desire, is to have 100% possession”  – Pep Guardiola.

A big vision does two things:

🔹a) A big vision directs the focus to things that really matter in the long run.

When working toward a big vision, short-term concerns like adjusting formations for the next opponent or worrying about the result disappear.

A big vision makes you realize how unimportant most of these things are, but also how they distract you from what is most important.

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.” - John Maxwell

Big goals reduce to what is essential. What remains are a few principles to teach and a few key exercises. If you want to do something great, you have to do the ONE thing very often. And if you have many different things to work on, you cannot repeat the one thing often enough to become really good at it.

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🔹b) A big vision shifts the focus from external motivation to the process.

Instead of chasing titles, we relentlessly pursue perfection. We try to get better every day. The process itself becomes our goal and external motivators like trophies become milestones.

As physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman said:

“I don’t like honors. [..] I’ve already got the prize: The prize is the pleasure of finding things out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.”

If you rely on external motivation, you stop improving when you reach them. Kobe Bryant said:

“The NBA was actually easier [than High School]. Because in the NBA, a lot of guys played for financial stability. And when they came to the NBA they got that financial stability. So therefore, the passion, the work ethic, and the obsessiveness were gone. I am looking at that: ‘It’s gonna be like taking candy from a baby. No wonder why Mike wins all these fu**ing championships.’ ”

The joy is in the pursuit (intrinsic motivation).

And if you pursue perfection long enough, you will catch excellence.

Winning is just the consequence of the process.

“For me, success is growing. I always believe that the team who grows more in a season will be the successful team." - Pep Lijnders.

In the next few posts, I'll talk about some of the other things I've learned about team development.

[Julius Riemann @julius_riemann]

"𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬."
🗣 Roberto De Zerbi

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Great quote from the great Rui Faria:

“No matter how successfully a coach masters his style of play or innovates tactically, they can never completely override the qualities of their players - even if certain coaches think otherwise.”

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Even better footage of Carlos Corberan’s West Brom scoring yesterday after 31 passes. Very impressive #wba

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Marcelo Bielsa -

Training &gt; Game transfer 🔁

Building Play 🔐⚽️

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Marcelo Bielsa -

• Positional compensation
• Underloaded 2v3
• Defensive recovery diagonal

🔐⚽️

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Roberto DeZerbi

Building play v 4-1-4-1 / 5-4-1

Zig-Zag concept to play through centrally 🔐⚽️

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Roberto DeZerbi -

Building play v 4-4-2 Low Block.

Positional midfielder to create +1 in the first line 🔐⚽️