🇪🇸👏 Santi Cazorla on returning to his boyhood club Real Oviedo: "I would play for free, but you’re not allowed."
"They made a good offer. My wife said: No, no, you’re not going to Oviedo to earn, you’re going home to enjoy it, to help, to give."
"I called my agent: ‘I don’t want any money.’ I told the president: minimum salary, 10% of shirt sales to the academy. It was done that night.”
He's currently on minimum wage for Real Oviedo in La Liga 2. Earning €93,000. Great gesture. ❤️ (@sidlowe/@guardian_sport)
Gary Neville: "I have a different belief around exams. I don't believe you should work for 16 years at school & college & then it all depends on a 2 hour assessment... I think that's prehistoric... it needs ripping up & you should be judged over your body of work."
#BBCBreakfast
If Will Still stayed in 🏴 or just spoke English, where would he be coaching right now? 💭
Being brought up overseas, being trilingual & working in analysis in 🇧🇪 certainly contributed to Will Still’s rise to 1st Team ⚽️
#WillStill#StadeDeReims#Reims#ligue1#ligue1ubereats
How the hell in 2022 can courses on k-tape which has been shown to be a non specific treatment that doesn’t outperform placebos or shams cost £260… and you have to bring your own tape! 😱🤦♂️
New @CIES_Football ⚽️ Monthly Report 📖 just released with exclusive analysis of outstanding @SkillCorner data on distances covered 🏃♂️ by players in 3⃣1⃣ competitions 🤩 Comparisons per league, position, results, running speed 👉 https://t.co/L9aD0tSOdd Enjoy the report ❗️🤓
12,500 players in our Academies:
◾0.5% U9s make it to the 1st team
◾Every 5 players offered scholarship, only 2 will receive fulltime contract
◾Only 1 still playing by 21
We MUST make our players experience as positive & memorable as possible.
@SundayShare10#SundayShare
The amount of back-to-back matches in elite men’s professional football has increased over the last three years, with some footballers spending 70-80% of their playing time in a two-game-a-week rhythm.
https://t.co/BQNT1RlB5A
The UEFA EURO 2020 technical report: Some great analysis and insights from the tournament
Read 📒 https://t.co/nqXHWAaxkG
Download ⬇️ https://t.co/W6d5BtdT1H
Best 11s for the big-5 https://t.co/uxuSrU8Mn1
Interestingly average ages of each selected XI
EPL: 24.7
Serie A: 26
Bundesliga: 27
Ligue 1: 27
La Liga: 30.9 🤯
Interesting study.
'Injuries according to the percentage of adult height in an elite soccer academy'.
Data from Athletic Bilbao Academy.
Injuries follow a specific sequence pattern
according to percentage of adult height.
Maturity specific injury prevention programs advised.
Which clubs have lost the most money in the Premier League since it was formed in 1992...and what is the reward for the two biggest loss makers? https://t.co/FZNtC6pYz8 Visualised with @f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h