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Thinking Frameworks Solve Your Problems
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Thinking Frameworks Solve Your Problems

When you consistently use frameworks as guide rails, it maps out a process for your mind to follow and better solve your problems. When you don’t have a logical structure or framework you are leaving your mind exposed to chaos.

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Messi: The First and Last of His Kind
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Messi: The First and Last of His Kind

What if we never get to see someone like Messi. It’s been said that there will never be anyone like the Argentine. Simultaneously, that saddens me and makes me grateful. Saddens me for future football fans and fills me with gratitude I was with Leo for the better part of my life.

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The Paradox of Choice: Coaching with Option Making
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The Paradox of Choice: Coaching with Option Making

In order to make correct decisions, one must master the skill of knowing where to look and what to pay attention to in order to satisfy the constraint or objective. When speaking about this topic with Chris Bentley, he introduced me to this idea of option making instead of decision making.

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Complex Build-Ups Lead to Simple Football
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Complex Build-Ups Lead to Simple Football

As many football philosophers have pointed out over the years, a well developed organised attack leads to tactical advantages when you are nearer to goal. The purpose is to get the ball to attacking players in favourable conditions to finalise actions successfully.

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It's All Just Noise
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It's All Just Noise

Noise can be an alluring, debilitating, dizzying, song that can slam your boat against the rocks. Keep your ‘Why’ close and you’ll be fine.

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Fractalled Football
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Fractalled Football

F.C. Barcelona U10 coach, Oscar Jorquera, consistently reiterates the following phrase to the players he’s coaching, “Although the scenario changes, the situation is always the same.” He is of course alluding to this self-similarity throughout a match.

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Guardiola's Class
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Guardiola's Class

Since that 2007 coaching clinic, Pep Guardiola has singlehandedly changed how football is played. Luckily for us, someone filmed this once in a lifetime clinic and the following findings are those ideas preached on that cloudy April 11th in 2007. 

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Move the Opponent, Not the Ball
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Move the Opponent, Not the Ball

If you were to ask any player in the world what the most important thing in football is, they would all say the ball. Without the ball you cannot win a match, that’s an indisputable, objective fact. So what better bait than the one thing every player wants. 

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Guardiola on Play
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Guardiola on Play

My question is at what point in our need to control every aspect of the sport and how we teach young people to play it did we take the ball away?

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