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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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Positional Play’s Need for Ball Handlers
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Positional Play’s Need for Ball Handlers

When a player, no matter what age begins to play football, the first relationship they must discover is their relationship with the ball. A novice player must explore what it means to manipulate the ball. This means being capable to manoeuvre the ball in any which way.

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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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Positional Play: Crash Course Part 1 of 4
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Positional Play: Crash Course Part 1 of 4

Within the subtleties of positional play, we can divide this style into three objectives which need to be met in order to achieve success. In each of the upcoming parts of this positional play series, one of the objectives will be discussed comprehensively...

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Quique Setién: Football's Chessmaster
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Quique Setién: Football's Chessmaster

Throughout the years there have been some wonderful comparisons made between football’s tactics and chess’s strategic intricacies, but in my opinion, no one defines it better than Las Palmas’ manager, Quique Setién…

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Positional Play in Motion
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Positional Play in Motion

Personally, I feel positional play is the most attractive style of football which achieves winning results. The following characteristics are examples of crucial concepts in positional play...

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Sevilla's Shapeless Form
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Sevilla's Shapeless Form

Of course there are many aspects which contribute to the success of a team; physical, psychological, technical, and tactical. Each of the aforementioned aspects can be divided into different segments, and within the tactical aspects I’d like to direct my attention to his formations, or shall we say the lack of formations...

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