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By Emanuele Mongiardo «I think from day one, we were very clear that we are trying to select and build the best possible team, which is not necessarily to select and collect the 26 most talented players. Teams win championships. It’s as simple as that. And what we are
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By Rodrigo Seixas The players of the Brazilian national team used a Playbook Wristband, which is normally used in American football games. In the NFL, the game features hundreds of different pre-designed plays and, before each snap, the quarterback receives an instruction from the coaching staff through the radio
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By Rodrigo Seixas Last weekend, the UEFA Champions League was won by Paris Saint-Germain. A club that had dreamed of this title for years and invested heavily to achieve it. Some of the greatest stars in world football passed through Paris, including Messi, Neymar, Mbappé, Ibrahimović, and many others.
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By Gaspar Vallecillo Castro “The ecological identity lies in the system’s ability to maintain its functional coherence despite the variability of the environment.” — Passos et al. (2016) With fewer than fifteen days remaining until the 2026 World Cup, football — the most important sport on planet Earth — seems immersed in
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By Edward Stratmann How Unai Emery has turned Aston Villa into a fully fledged European force has been nothing short of remarkable, a far cry from the side he inherited three and a half years ago when they were hovering just three points above the relegation zone. The scale of
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By Rodrigo Seixas Football has always gone through changes — that is part of its nature and what makes it even more interesting. For this reason, it is curious to observe how positional play, so popular in recent years, has itself undergone transformations. Before anything else, positional play is a model
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By Paul Mallet «Complexity includes not only quantities of units and interactions that defy our capacity for calculation; it also includes uncertainties, indeterminacies, random phenomena. […] But complexity cannot be reduced to uncertainty — it is uncertainty within richly organised systems. […] Complexity is therefore linked to a certain blend of order and
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By Gaspar Vallecillo Castro What Is Positional Play? Transfer, Acquisition, Training, and Playing This article serves as a presentation of my intentions: a methodologist who writes to football and seeks, within positional play, interactions that elevate the love for the ball within a community to be built together. I live
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By Edward Stratmann Cesc Fàbregas’ Como 1907 have taken Europe by storm this season with their scintillating brand of tactically sophisticated, expansive football. Unquestionably one of the most exciting and entertaining teams to watch in Serie A, there’s been plenty of upside to be extracted from the work done
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By Emanuele Mongiardo The centenary season was on the verge of turning into a nightmare for Celta Vigo. Two years ago, the Galician club had decided to do things in a big way to celebrate its hundred years of history. With the hope of once again competing for European places,
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By Paul Mallet «I am not at all a devotee of speed. When I say that I am an enemy of speed, I am, of course, an enemy of technical speed, that is to say, of this race toward the end, toward ubiquity.» Paul Virilio In 1977, Paul Virilio wrote
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The potential appointment of Roberto De Zerbi as head coach of Tottenham Hotspur opens up a layered tactical discussion that extends beyond stylistic identity and into a more delicate dimension: the alignment between competitive urgency and methodological complexity. De Zerbi’s football is not merely an aesthetic proposition; it is