Dan F-M

🗣️Everything that can be reduced to a system ends up in the hands of fools. - Nicolás #GómezDávila🇨🇴 Hugely enjoying what for me is a recent philosophical discovery in the form of Nicolás Gómez Dávila. This quote in particular is as applicable to ⚽️ as it is in life🤔

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Football now has such scale — commercially, financially, politically — that those who play the game can seem secondary in importance to what it can be used to achieve. But Footballers, we must not forget, are really, really good at football. Let's cherish them. 📝 @SebSB nytimes.com/athletic/71259…

The easiest way to change player behavior? Design training so the right decisions feel natural.

More than the records, the sheer depth of ⚽️ resources that #LuisEnrique🇪🇸 has given this #PSG group deserve all the plaudits👏

Start your weekeend with this saucy little finish from Ariel Ortega for Samp vs Inter 27 years ago today. Mustard. Absolutely mustard.

Bournemouth have been behind five times against Man Utd this season. And come back each time. Great spirit and style about them, they just keep going and don’t change.

8 - Andoni Iraola has faced Manchester United eight times in his career as a manager (W2 D4) and a player (W2), and has still never lost against the Red Devils. Number.

Zamorano. 1⃣+8⃣

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Failure is the frame, not the picture.

Kobe Bryant shares why most teams get practice wrong and what Phil Jackson taught him about preparation. "Practices are meant to be competitive. If your practices aren't more competitive than the games themselves, you're doing the wrong thing." That's the standard. How you prepare is how you are going to play. "Most of these teams and coaches have gotten into a mindset of resting players. 'Oh, it's too much. We're not gonna practice.' Light day, light day, light day." "Phil never gave us a light day. There was no days off. You show up and you work. You practice." You show up and do the work. No excuses or shortcuts. "Practices are going to be worse. They're gonna be more physical. There's gonna be more trash talking." "And I'm gonna let you know. If you didn't show up today, I'm gonna let you know. And it's gonna be embarrassing, and you're gonna hate it." Then he explained why it all mattered: "But when Game 7 rolls around in the NBA Finals, you will be prepared." That's the tradeoff. Hard now, easy later - or easy now, hard later. You don't rise to the moment. You fall to the level of your preparation. (🎥 The Corp)

A reminder for tomorrow. ⬇️ Beating the man-to-man press. Open to everyone (must have Zoom)

Aura 😮‍💨 #UCL

Another 🔝 piece here from @IJaSport on: the "Next Most Necessary Thing". Not just important in terms of a Transition mindset, but also to help keep players in a flow state as much as possible🤔 itsjustasport.com/articles/the-n…

Vitinha's lob 🤤 #UCL

“Menotti’s legacy is understanding the midfield not as a place of transit but as where a team is defined.” — Matías Manna Great Interview - contemporary football has become standardised and predictable, everyone imitating the same two or three coaches, and the antidote is rooted identity. For Argentina, that means la nuestra: short passing, creativity, relational play. Not copying Europe: tiempoar.com.ar/ta_article/mat…

61.3 metres. That’s how far Max Dowman carried the ball before scoring his breakaway goal against Everton. The Arsenal teenager’s run now ranks among the longest carries leading to a goal in Premier League history: