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Messi finding the diagonal angle from the ball, enabling Barca to play against the momentum of the block & allowing Messi to 'recieve to attack'; causing tension's on the last line.
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As an interior player, diagonal receptions will allow you to not only receive the ball with separation from your opponent as their attention will always be forced to the ball, as it moves & you don't, but a diagonal reception will allow you to receive to attack(facing the play)
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Stop asking:
“How many touches did they get?”
Start asking:
“How many decisions did they make?”
Not all repetitions are equal.
#TOVO
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The best coaches aren’t always the ones talking the most.
Sometimes the most intelligent coaching intervention is silence.
Watch.
Wait.
Let the player solve it.
#TOVO
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🏴Sir Alex Ferguson on the England vs Spain match:
“You cannot build a championship team on physicality alone. At the highest level, the ball has to do the running.”
#TOVO Method
Cruyff Legacy
Can be applied to f’ball too, having your most talented player in the most complex role(that’ll cause the most tension for the opponents defence). E.g Messi as false 9.
I never really got into the movies but it is a nice touch that they took the most talented actor by far and cast him as the most (arguably the only) complex and interesting character.
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Pass(to pass attention), and move(to create separation):
one of the most basic yet effective principle's in football is the pass and move. & when you pass the ball, your oppo's attention will almost always be diverted to the ball, this allows players to exploit that and create...
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