واحدة من إقتباساتي المُفضلة لأحد أعظم الرجال والمدربين في كرة القدم الحديثة، مارسيلو بييلسا:

🎙️'لا تُرِني نتائج المُدرب، أرني عمله'

النتائج خليط من عوامل لا تعد ولا تحصى، ومنها عوامل خارج تحكم وإرادة المدرب [سلبياً أو إيجابياً]،

لكن [عمل] المدرب هو المحك الحقيقي لجودته.

ثريد بسيط:

×- قد تظن أن بولونيا تم حِصاره في لقطة كهذه، لكن عمل تياغو موتا يحول دون ذلك.

- المفاهيم الفردية: كالافيوري يخفي نوايا التمرير بتموضع جسمه (مستقيم، لا ينحاز لزاوية تفضح نية تمرير) وتقنية الإستلام (أمامي، يقتل زخم الكرة ليسهل استخدام جميع الزوايا الممكنة)

×- وصف بولونيا تياغو موتا بأنه فريق {لا مركزّي} غير دقيق.

-- بولونيا تياغو موتا يحترِم رُقع الملعب التموضعية (المراكز)، مع إنسيابية شغر وتبادُل الأفراد لكل رُقعة.

-/ الغرض من التبادلية هو تعويض نقص التفوق الجودي (أفراد)، بنوع آخر من التفوق، وهو التفوق الوقتي/العلائقي (مجموعات).

players don't want to be reactive, they don't want to take punches and THEN try to retaliate, they don't want to be on the backfoot.

ESPECIALLY the best players.

this is why I'll never believe In a football like this.

also necessary to mention that the type of adaptive KO's coaching that the likes of Tuchel display is less effective, simply because it lacks repetition/synergy.

no matter how good players are, you can't ask them to reshuffle on the spot and expect harmony/synergy in execution.

i love CBs that are footballers first, if that makes sense.

it's why I love watching Tchouameni at CB.

Tchouameni at CB 🤝 Jhon Lucumi.

Laimer has turned me into Arteta.

I'm screaming DUELS! at the TV.

that Jude pass to set up Kroos for the shot is everything you need to know about why he's one of the best.

the technical empathy to weigh the pass that way, recognizing that Kroos wants to go 1st time (because that's what his body demands, can't dribble or run).

brilliant.

an ecosystem, not a compartmentalization of lines and phases, a unit of interactions and a mutual language.

you don't analyze Madrid in the (build-up, 1st/2nd/3rd phases, IP,OOP) axiom.

Madrid are a living organism, you have to study their interactions, not 'phases'.

Ancelotti has taken a page from the Thiago Motta playbook with Nacho's movements/rotations out of CB.

stresses Bayern's 1st pressing line (and creates time-space for Kroos).

(Bodes well for a potential Motta-Nacho union at Juventus).

look at Vini's dismarking movement in that goal.

Kroos hides his intentions so well that it's difficult for even his teammates to follow his lead.

(not just hiding intentions, it's also waiting until the last possible moment to decide, Kroos understands the elasticity of time-space, and lets time stretch, to create space).