Rui Tofes

Write drunk, edit sober! Desenhador Projectista || Architectural draughtsman

[VRed Baller @VRedBaller]

Gonçalo Ramos já leva 14 golos por Portugal com apenas 13 jogos a titular.

Em minutos jogados tem apenas 1305, marcando um golo pela Seleção a cada 93 minutos.

Acabou de entrar no Top-20 de melhores marcadores de sempre da Seleção e só agora começou a ser titular.

Que não haja dúvidas, Gonçalo Ramos é o melhor Ponta-de-lança português atualmente.

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Rodri on Hansi Flick’s impact:

“People keep asking why Barcelona players go to their national teams and suddenly they’re running everywhere, scoring, creating chances.

I can tell you why.

Hansi doesn’t allow us to relax in training.

I learned under Pep for years, and Pep would stop a training session because somebody was standing two metres in the wrong position.

Hansi will stop it because somebody took two seconds too long to attack the space.

That’s the difference.

I remember one of my first sessions. We had just won the ball and I played it sideways.

Perfect pass. Safe pass.

Hansi blew the whistle.

‘Rodri, why?’

I said, ‘Why what?’

‘Why did you give them time to breathe?’

I looked at him and said, ‘Coach, we only won the ball three seconds ago.’

He said, ‘Exactly. They are not ready yet.’

Then he made us start again.

That sentence stayed with me.

With Pep, I learned how to control a match until the opponent becomes tired of chasing you.

With Hansi, sometimes it feels like he wants the opponent to regret losing the ball before they’ve even realised they’ve lost it.

And training reflects that.

Win it. Look forward.

Someone runs.

Lose it. Run again.

Lamine is running. Gordon is running. Olmo is running. Pedri is running.

Sometimes I look around and think, ‘Does anybody at this club walk?’

Hansi doesn’t care.

He’ll shout, ‘Again!’

Then international break comes and you begin noticing it.

Lamine goes with Spain and scores. I’m getting into positions to score. Olmo is creating. Gordon goes to England and he’s scoring and assisting.

Different national teams, different coaches, different systems.

But you can still recognise certain movements.

That’s when you realise club football follows you home.

I spoke to Gordon once after an England game and joked, ‘You know Hansi isn’t here. You can stop running now.’

He said, ‘I know. I just keep seeing the space.’

That’s Flick.

People think a coach’s work stays at the training ground.

It doesn’t.

If you repeat something every morning for months, eventually you stop waiting for the coach to tell you.

You just see the space and go.

Pep taught me that controlling the ball can control the opponent.

Hansi has reminded me that sometimes the opponent is most vulnerable when nobody controls anything yet.

Maybe that’s why Barcelona players look so electric for their countries right now.

International break changes the shirt.

Apparently it doesn’t switch Hansi Flick off.”

[Tom Allnutt @TomAllnutt_]

Palmeiras have a secret pitch just for the players. Benfica play with flat balls, like you might find in the park. At Ajax, they play 2v2 on a circular bit of concrete, at Feyenoord on sand.

All in pursuit of game-changers, with more spontaneity & skill.

How clubs brought street football back in the building:

@TimesSport

https://t.co/vf0j6Rqjhm

[FullTime90 @FullTime90X]

🚨 Paul Scholes:

🗣️ “Dani Olmo is twice the player Jude Bellingham is, but he will never get the praise he deserves because he can’t run up and down for 90 minutes or because he isn’t seen as a great-looking physical athlete. 👀

🗣️ “What Dani Olmo has cannot be taught. He is the pure No. 10 of football — a player with a natural understanding of the game. 🎩

🗣️ “He ran the show against England, while people keep praising Jude even in a loss. I don’t hate Jude at all; he is my countryman and I love the player. ❤️

🗣️ “But we need to appreciate the greatness of Dani Olmo. What he does on the pitch, no other No. 10 in the world can do.

🗣️ “He has the finesse of Johan Cruyff and the first touch of Dennis Bergkamp.” 🪄🔵🔴

[Muhammad Zidane @MuZidane1]

How Bayern Munich breaks Deep Blocks without relying on standard overlapping width.

Bayern Munich does something fundamentally different: The Diagonal Ladder. 🪜

Bayern Munich's recent structural approach presents a far more central, intricate solution.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

Football is finished, man. Soon, there won’t even be many people left who actually know how to watch it.

Look at Dani Olmo yesterday. He put in a reference level performance as a No.10, one of those games where you can actually learn something by watching him — and barely anyone said a word.

Then you wake up today and X is flooded with posts praising Bellingham.

That’s what football has become for a lot of people. They don’t necessarily talk about the player who actually played the best football; they talk about whoever is more popular, more hyped or gets the most attention.

It’s not about understanding the game anymore. It’s about repeating the names everyone else is talking about.

Olmo can dominate a game technically and tactically, and people will ignore it because he isn’t as popular as Bellingham.

Actually watch football instead of watching the hype.

[TOMISIN🏅 @tomisinfcb]

🚨Raphinha on the conversation with Hansi Flick that revived his career at Barcelona:

“After one training session, Hansi Flick called me over. He looked me in the eyes and said:

‘Rapha, if you agree to stay, I will make you one of the best attackers in Europe. Right now, I need your yes or no. Are you in?’

I saw the confidence in his eyes. I saw that he genuinely believed in me. I didn’t need much time to think.

I looked at him and said, ‘Yes, boss. I’m in.’

From that moment, everything changed. Flick gave me the confidence and responsibility I needed. He made me feel important and gave me the freedom to play my football.

I had doubts about my future before he arrived, but his belief in me changed my mentality completely. He didn’t just revive my career he made me believe that I could reach another level.

I’ll always be grateful to Hansi Flick for that conversation.”

[Rising Stars XI @RisingStarXI]

WE WANT GIOVANNI LEONI BACK. 🇮🇹😮‍💨

[Keepitonthedeck @Keepitonthedeck]

🔥 COACHING INSIGHT FROM GERMANY 🇩🇪

Something really interesting we noticed from Pep Lijnders coaching on Tuesday.

Runs beyond in the half spaces.

He explained that the run is there to offer an option for a through pass.

But there is another layer.

When those runs are made diagonally, they drag defenders with them and disrupt the defensive shape.

That creates space for the winger to drive inside in a 1v1, get a shot away, or attack the space that has just opened.

And if the opposition shifts across quickly to close it?

That can open the opposite side for a pass and a strike on goal.

So watch for this tonight in Holland vs Germany 👀

Runs beyond in the half spaces.

Wingers driving inside.

Shots from central areas.

Passes into the spaces those runs create.

That is the detail. ⚽🧠 This is the sort of coaches that offer pictures with many solutions that players can then decide for themselves.

Like and follow for more like this.

#keepitonthedeck #soccercoaching #soccerdrills #coacheducation

[Rising Stars XI @RisingStarXI]

🇦🇹😮‍💨 Liverpool made a really good job in signing 𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐈 𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐊𝐖𝐄 (𝟏𝟖)…

He will become a top and very complete CB in the future.

Very solid cameo against Villarreal last weekend. 👏

[Lucas @lucas_hby]

Raphinha : L’intensité a l’entraînement qui fait toute la différence

L’INTENSITÉ SE CONSTRUIT À L’ENTRAÎNEMENT
Ce qui frappe chez Raphinha, c’est l’intensité qu’il met à l’entraînement : des efforts très courts et explosifs, des accélérations, des freinages, des changements de direction et des réaccélérations à pleine vitesse. Et ce travail n’est pas anodin : la science montre que les sprints répétés à haute intensité peuvent améliorer le sprint court, la capacité à répéter les efforts explosifs, les changements de direction et les courses à haute intensité chez les footballeurs, ce que Raphinha répète à l’entraînement construit les qualités qu’il devra ensuite exprimer en match.

QUAND L’ENTRAÎNEMENT DEVIENT LE GESTE DÉCISIF
Contre Séville, on voit cette capacité à freiner, changer brutalement de direction, réorienter son corps puis réaccélérer en une fraction de seconde. Le crochet paraît spectaculaire, mais derrière ce geste se cache une qualité neuromusculaire travaillée encore et encore : produire rapidement de la force, contrôler son corps et repartir immédiatement. Ce qui est répété à haute intensité à l’entraînement devient alors disponible en match, même lorsque le temps et l’espace sont extrêmement réduits.

LES CHAMPIONS REPRODUISENT EN MATCH CE QU’ILS CONSTRUISENT À L’ENTRAÎNEMENT
C’est peut-être ça, la vraie différence : les champions ne découvrent pas leurs qualités le jour du match, ils les construisent chaque jour à l’entraînement. L’intensité répétée développe la capacité, la répétition crée l’automatisme, et l’automatisme permet ensuite d’exprimer cette explosivité au moment décisif. Chez Raphinha, la connexion est particulièrement visible : l’intensité que l’on observe à l’entraînement se retrouve dans ses accélérations, ses changements de direction et ses actions décisives en match. L’entraînement n’est donc pas seulement une préparation au match : c’est l’endroit où se construit la performance du match.

Une méta-analyse récente menée chez des footballeurs montre que les entraînements de sprints répétés à haute intensité améliorent notamment le sprint court, les changements de direction, la capacité à répéter les efforts explosifs et les courses à haute intensité. En clair : plus on entraîne ces qualités à haute intensité, plus on développe la capacité à les reproduire en situation de match. Chen et al., 2026, Frontiers in Physiology “The effects of field-based repeated-sprint training on physical performance in soccer players”

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

😮‍💨🧠 Thierry Henry asked Cesc Fàbregas about the freedom he gives young talents Nico Paz and Martin Baturina at Como. His answer was fascinating:

🗣️ “When I started coaching two or three years ago, I thought I could control everything. I've already accepted that I can't. We just try to help the players as much as possible.

There are different types of players. Some need more structure, while others are more talented and can be trusted to express themselves in different ways.

I've always felt that the number 10 role is being lost in football. I was lucky enough to play in that position and I believe the role is very important. Sometimes, as coaches, we can be too restrictive with the talent that certain players have.

I'm very fortunate to have two extremely talented young players, aged 22 and 23. They still have a long way to go, and our job is to advise them.

We show them how the opponent presses, whether they defend man-to-man or in a zone, whether they play with a single defensive midfielder and how that player operates. We explain those dynamics to them and then try to create overloads, superiorities, and spaces so that other players can pose a threat.

But, ultimately, it's also about trusting the players.” 👏🧠

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

🗣️ Cesc Fabregas: "The number 10 position is disappearing. Players of the caliber of Özil or James Rodriguez no longer interest coaches. These players are capable of unlocking a match with a brilliant pass, but nowadays, the coach prefers a stable structure.

When Conte arrived at Chelsea, I started to understand what modern football was: a lot of running, split sessions, robotic training...

I couldn't believe it. I was in shock, because I've always been a player who relied on creativity, which for me is the best thing in the arts."

[FullTime90 @FullTime90X]

🚨🇪🇸 Pep Guardiola:

🗣️ “Yesterday, I went to Barcelona’s training facility to watch the Barça players train and spend some time with them. 🔵🔴

🗣️ “There, I saw 18-year-old Hamza Abdelkarim play a friendly match, and I can say this: he is literally Erling Haaland reincarnated. Everything he does is exactly how Haaland plays.

🗣️ “His finishing is top-notch, and his positioning is equally impressive. I think he will be the best striker in the world in a couple of years.” 👀🔥

[Advanced Football Academy @AdvFtbAcad]

Drills are the building blocks of game day success 👀
Explore new ideas for your next session.

🎥 sportplan_football /IG

[Rising Stars XI @RisingStarXI]

🇬🇲🚀 The world is still processing Dowman, but Arsenal is already producing the 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗡𝗘𝗬𝗠𝗔𝗥.

Born in The Gambia, 𝗕𝗨𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗥 𝗝𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪 (𝟭𝟰) is next big thing coming through Hale End…

The quick feet, body feints, changes of direction…

[Advanced Football Academy @AdvFtbAcad]

Coaches should focus on teaching players how to master different parts of both feet ⚽️

Use this simple ball mastery practice to help players build true comfort on the ball:

🎥 f3training_ /IG

[Lisco @fcb_lisco]

POV: Never try pressing Pedri and Rodri 🔥😮‍💨

[Advanced Football Academy @AdvFtbAcad]

At home technical session for footballers ⚽️🏠

🎥 elevateperformance._ /IG

[Advanced Football Academy @AdvFtbAcad]

Dribbling drill around cones with quick touches and acceleration.

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