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Learn more about how EA FC 24 and UEFA are using FC to bring train young players and inspiring kids to play football. ⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

How can football clubs better control fatigue and recovery for their players? The article is presented by the Norwegian School of Sport Sicences.

Putting context and perspective in sprints and acceleration within Football.

“What kind of football do you want to play?” Sahin: „Adaptive football.“ Sahin convinced me before he was even Dortmund's Coach. When he overtook Antalyaspor as a coach, Adaptivity was the one thing big thing for him. This makes sense when you consider Football as a complex system, meaning living and always changing. In that case, adaptivity is the meta-trait you are looking for, Because adaptivity means you can recognize each novel situation first and then change your behavior and decisions. Rather than having some theoretical top-down playing style dogma, adaptivity allows you to be flexible and do whatever is best in the given situation. This logic is also why I am convinced that the cognitive part of football will be increasingly relevant. One very quick marker for adaptivity is IQ. From my experience, IQ is still not taken into account by clubs enough or not at all, although it can be measured quite easy and reliable. Speaking from gut-feeling: IQ is probably the factor that correlates mostly with the Goalimpact. Of course, adaptivity takes time to implement and so I don’t suspect that everything will work out immediately, but in the long-run Sahin seems to be on the right track. Heja BVB :) Curious for the upcoming season. What do you guys think of adaptivity and playing style? How do you actually "train" that? Leo-Jonathan Teßmann I guess you are on board with that, right ;) Any additional markers on your mind how to measure adaptivity?

ICYMI: LATEST NEWS: Football SA to deliver revised Youth Competition structure for 2025 Read here 👇 #Football #Soccer #FootballNews

Spirit of the street football. Einstein has said, ‘Play is the highest form of research’. I have had the privilige to play on teams and clubs in Germany, which 20 years ago facilitated in various ways “The spirit of street football and free play.” With Werder Bremen we used to play in every January pre season a traditional 5-a-side tournament in Oldenburg which gathered some teams from Bundesliga,some from the 2nd BL and some lower league teams to play one evening tournament. It was an easy yet fun start to harder 3 week period of preparing for the spring season. At the same time it was fun but we went there of course to win it as well. There wasn’t too much coaching involved even though the whole coaching staff was on board. They let us choose and decide how to play. I remember my first time back in 2004. We have’d a pretty intense session in the morning, i just heard that we gonna leave to play a tournament in Oldenburg. I had know idea what’s ahead of me and what to expect - else than playing football of course. As we got there, the hall was packed full of people. From The first row to the last, music playing out loud, fans yelling and cheering for the teams. As soon as the games started it got me back to my roots where it all had started. As we had played 2v2 ,3v3 and 5v5 games with friends back home in lahti after the school and before the team trainings. Sometimes without shoes just bare socks on,with different size balls, soft balls, tennisballs, size 2-3 balls whatever we came up to That sometimes 1-2h period of free play not only got us warmed up and activated our bodies but it increased our total training times a vast amount of time and it raised our no. of ball touches to a quantity that is nowadays a minimum to any High standard Academies. Society has moved on here in Finland and it’s taken street football moments away a bit, that element of play. We can develop 100 exercises, but the best thing would be if we create the streets back into our player development path. Such formats as cage football and street football,where the ball is always in play and the surface allows it to be moved quickly. In a small area you have to move your feet quickly, control the ball as it bounces off the wall, do things off the cuff. these are environments that emphasise the individual freedom and decision making combined to a technical execution. We have to cultivate the individual, develop personality and skills. Team play and tactics are the final piece of the jigsaw. Technique and individuality are the foundation blocks. It is in my belief that a player must be the owner of his own development. In an inspirational environment he thinks about what will be his next step and is creative. In my eyes, this is how you create talented players who understand the game. Footballers are experts in calculating time, space, speed, spin, in pressured environments. They do this by play - a series of experiments over years.