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[𝐑𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐚 @LoyalYashFan]

@FCBarcelona This is the best Messi video I’ve ever seen.

[Haris @harisobic]

“Coaches cannot WIN games, they can HELP players win games.. football is players’ game.”

Thought-provoking day of football education in SF as always with @FootballCoachEv @raymondverheije Thanks 🤝

[Frans Hoek. @Frans_Hoek]

2024 what an incredible kick off year off Goalplaying Coaching by the whole staff. Interest out off the whole world and workshops in the whole world. Thanks all who organised it and ofcourse all participants! Can’t wait for 2025!@goalplayercom @uhlsport.de @falke

[Daniel @danieIscouting]

THREAD: Tactical analysis of Thomas Frank’s game plan against Arsenal.

[Gaurav @GauravAnlyst]

Mikel Arteta / Offensive Principles

Arsenal's sub principles & strategies in offensive organization explained with game examples

A thread

[Adam Bate @ghostgoal]

Real Madrid’s Carlo Ancelotti recently spent seven hours with Eamon Devlin and his team from @Min9HalfTime who specialise in the half-time team talk.

Spoke to Devlin to hear about their work and why managers struggle to make the most of this key period.
https://t.co/8Iu0JU1cVV

[Frans Hoek. @Frans_Hoek]

Thanks @ghostgoal great job! @goalplayer_com https://t.co/IkUtpvhkFr

[Tom Byerトム•バイヤー @tomsan106]

Anyone wants the Book, Football Starts at Home PDF for free, DM me with an email address.

[Roger Bonet "Ruxi" @Ruxiiii4]

Hello guys,

I’m sharing for free some interesting set-piece corner routines I’ve observed and saved throughout the year.

I’ll be uploading more set-piece routines in the coming days.

Short THREAD 🧵

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

📺🗣️ Crazy 1-on-1 tactical analysis clip between Luis Enrique & Kylian Mbappé... 😳

"I read that you liked Michael Jordan?"

"Michael Jordan was defending like a son of a b****!" (@MovistarFutbol)

[Joel Cressman @JoelCressman]

For the past year, I’ve been researching the world’s most creative athletes.

Creative players are unicorns. And are becoming more rare.

Here are 9 principles on how creative elite athletes are made:

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Sport Psychologist Tells the Great Kobe Bryant Story

[Haris @harisobic]

@tomasmodpereira Sorry it didn’t come through.. can you re-send pls?

[Haris @harisobic]

@tomasmodpereira Yes please - I want it.

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Really good to chat with Manchester City and Portugal defender @rubendias about the mental challenge of playing international football.

I found Ruben to be articulate, honest, and open around this area.

Specifically, he spoke deeply about the challenge of being with the national team - having to play with players you’re not competing with week in week out. This requires the ability to pick up cues and clues quickly in training in order to be the best possible individual and team mate…

This is why fidelity of practice is so important in training for the Euro’s. Activities with high fidelity (they have the same informational properties as the game) are probably optimal…

We spoke about the importance of self-talk and mental rehearsal…

Fantastic of @SportsDirectUK to make this happen…

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Here’s Pep talking about Phil Foden…and his ability to self-regulate and play with a high degree of resilience…

If he misses he carries on! (Simple to say, difficult to do!)

In the clip he refers to the frontal cortex being the part of the brain that is doing the self-regulating (my understanding is that the ventrolateral pre-frontal cortex is heavily involved)…

Although worth noting that the brain doesn’t work this way and the triune brain is a myth (see https://t.co/z5dkfV9ayh)

Either way, it’s vital for coaches to create session designs that enable players to experience and deal with challenges.

It’s also important for coaches to introduce players to basic mental techniques such as self-talk, attentional control, and behavioural techniques to deal with moments of distraction, emotion, and unhelpful thinking (to play mentally skilfully)

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

“To work mentally…”

Everyday…
Everyday…
Everyday…

Mindset is always happening…and although Mo differentiates between mental work and being in the gym (gym work is still mental work) it’s wonderful to hear a footballer talk so passionately and with such sincerity about the mental side of sport.

To players like Mo nothing is neutral when it comes to performance - you’re either in a High Performance Mindset or you’re not…

Concentration, commitment, control, confidence - you’re either in a High Performance Mindset or you’re not…

Rest and recuperation in order to recover - you’re either in a High Performance Mindset or you’re not…

To players like Mo nothing is neutral when it comes to performance…

And so…ambitious players, ambitious competitors in all sports would do well to train mindset in every activity in every session. They would do well to find pockets of time during the day to rehearse their sport in their mind to cement their skills and prepare for upcoming games. They would do well to see the gym as their psychological playground…lifting their mental weights as they strengthen their muscles.

To players like Mo nothing is neutral when it comes to performance…you’re either in a High Performance Mindset or you’re not…

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

A manager trying to rouse his players…

Cortical arousal…a call for mental activation and physical intensity…

Mikel Arteta using words, sentences, phrases enveloped in tone, volume, rhythm, pause…trying to tap into memory, striving to evoke pain and pleasure, cautioning threat while willing reward. Motivation - to move towards and to move away from.

Mental activation…

The challenge for any coach is to recognise the cause of performance lapse. Do my players need to rise in intensity or do I need to cool the nervous system? Might a rise be true for one and a drop be true for another? Should this come from me or should this come from my players?

Questions…questions!

For me…pre-planned:

-individual mental frameworks
-a team mental framework

Then time for:

-players to group together to speak
-the coach to assert the tactical plan enveloped in those mental frameworks
-mini individual conversations

An all-in feel…an integrated approach.

Cortical arousal, narrative, and meaning in competitive sport are strange things. One player is best served in a state of physical dominance while another is best suited to a playful state akin to playing mate’s football.

Player one: dominant, relentless, strong
Player two: playful, focused, free

No hard, fast rules other than this - each and every player has their ideal mind and body state that helps them to anticipate, make decisions, co-ordinate their body, and execute at an appropriate physical intensity. And that state must be found and maintained in each and every game.

I love Mikel Arteta’s passion. I love his energy and his vibrancy. I also love the complexity of the human. With 11, 13, 15, 18 plauers all gawping at you, hanging on every word you say…you never quite know whether the content or the delivery is suited to everyone in the room…

…you never quite know…

And that’s what makes sports coaching so much fun and so intriguing. That no matter who you are and no matter what level you coach at…coaching is a decision-making process where even the very best and even the very famous are making a best guess most of the time.

A best guess most of the time…

[Jason Collinsworth @IHateSoccerPod]

If you’re a club that takes credit for a college commitment that’s been with you for less than a year…

You should also take credit for the U13+ players on your C team that have been with the club for 5 years that still can’t consistently receive and pass.