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Coach (UEFA A) | The 3rd Circle Podcast | Football Tactics Writer, Analyst, and Consultant | Visit https://t.co/ltF7Pf2dSB for more information

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One of the best things about the work I do is being exposed to relational interpretations of so many teams all over the world. This is a clip from Thomas Pedersen's Brattvåg IL playing in the Norwegian 3rd Tier. Extreme proximity to generate connections around the ball carrier.

One of the best things about the work I do is being exposed to relational interpretations of so many teams all over the world. This is a clip from Thomas Pedersen's Brattvåg IL playing in the Norwegian 3rd Tier. Extreme proximity to generate connections around the ball carrier.

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Enzo Maresca imposing his Positional Methodology at Chelsea. - Don't run to where the ball is. - Maintain your positions, stay in your positions. Positionist logic like this is an extremely powerful coaching tool. Hopefully more and more people are understanding how it works.

Enzo Maresca imposing his Positional Methodology at Chelsea. - Don't run to where the ball is. - Maintain your positions, stay in your positions. Positionist logic like this is an extremely powerful coaching tool. Hopefully more and more people are understanding how it works.

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So often it is ShadowPlay that unlocks defences. Its amazing it isn't already a more prominent coaching principle and analytic metric. Interestingly, ShadowPlay directly opposes the almost universal UP-BACK-THROUGH.

So often it is ShadowPlay that unlocks defences. Its amazing it isn't already a more prominent coaching principle and analytic metric. Interestingly, ShadowPlay directly opposes the almost universal UP-BACK-THROUGH.

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RB Leipzig vs Bayern's M2M

RB Leipzig vs Bayern's M2M

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Henrik Rydström's Malmö FF attacking the centre through close proximity relational combinations and dribbling from outside to inside.

Henrik Rydström's Malmö FF attacking the centre through close proximity relational combinations and dribbling from outside to inside.

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"I'm not looking for perfection in the films that I've made, I'm looking for spontaneity" - William Friedkin

"I'm not looking for perfection in the films that I've made, I'm looking for spontaneity" - William Friedkin

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Shapes, structures and patterns of play are secondary to player characteristics. Absolutely love creative ball players dropping deep to steer the build-up. Classic playmaking. Kane just walking out with the ball from the goal-kick is what European football needs.

Shapes, structures and patterns of play are secondary to player characteristics. Absolutely love creative ball players dropping deep to steer the build-up. Classic playmaking. Kane just walking out with the ball from the goal-kick is what European football needs.

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I repeat: THIS IS THE NORWEGIAN 3rd TIER. Fantastically well-organised attacking football full of intuition, spontaneity and expression within a collective tactical framework. Imagine the best players in the world coached in this way. Brattvåg IL 👏🇳🇴
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I repeat: THIS IS THE NORWEGIAN 3rd TIER. Fantastically well-organised attacking football full of intuition, spontaneity and expression within a collective tactical framework. Imagine the best players in the world coached in this way. Brattvåg IL 👏🇳🇴

Jamie Hamilton

101,624 views • 27 days ago

Thomas Pedersen's Brattvåg IL are at it again. Give and go, one-twos, counterpressing, inside diagonal combinations and back flicks to pick through the low block.
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Thomas Pedersen's Brattvåg IL are at it again. Give and go, one-twos, counterpressing, inside diagonal combinations and back flicks to pick through the low block.

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27,582 views • 9 days ago

For modern Positionist coaches, the current shift to set-piece emphasis is inevitable. Increased physicality means defences can 'constrain spaces' (go man-to-man) better and for longer. Positionism requires these spaces to afford attacking combinations. So, we have a problem. 🧵
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For modern Positionist coaches, the current shift to set-piece emphasis is inevitable. Increased physicality means defences can 'constrain spaces' (go man-to-man) better and for longer. Positionism requires these spaces to afford attacking combinations. So, we have a problem. 🧵

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477,533 views • 7 months ago

You could list the qualities and crunch the numbers for Colombia's U17 Samuel Martinez. Or you can just use your eyes.
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You could list the qualities and crunch the numbers for Colombia's U17 Samuel Martinez. Or you can just use your eyes.

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88,153 views • 1 month ago

What happens when you analyse a tactical system from a different perspective? Wirtz turns into a left back? Woltemade's 9 gets flipped to become a 6? Numbers lose their meanings. It's all possible in the context of Julian Nagelsmann's extreme diagonality 🇩🇪↗️↘️↙️↖️
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What happens when you analyse a tactical system from a different perspective? Wirtz turns into a left back? Woltemade's 9 gets flipped to become a 6? Numbers lose their meanings. It's all possible in the context of Julian Nagelsmann's extreme diagonality 🇩🇪↗️↘️↙️↖️

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300,926 views • 6 months ago

Analysis of Bodø/Glimt's attacking intentions vs Sporting from Atomic Analysis on YouTube. Video linked below.
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Analysis of Bodø/Glimt's attacking intentions vs Sporting from Atomic Analysis on YouTube. Video linked below.

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110,060 views • 2 months ago

Fabregas intuitively understands where football is heading - more movement in attack. He frames this movement as 'rotational' rather than 'associative', so that's interesting to keep track of. No surprise he praises Spalletti's Juve in relation to this topic - a man of taste.
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Fabregas intuitively understands where football is heading - more movement in attack. He frames this movement as 'rotational' rather than 'associative', so that's interesting to keep track of. No surprise he praises Spalletti's Juve in relation to this topic - a man of taste.

Jamie Hamilton

146,759 views • 4 months ago

You always know beautiful football when you see it. You just have to know where to look 🇨🇴☕️ Interestingly, Colombia scored this masterpiece without having runners breach the opponent's backline.
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You always know beautiful football when you see it. You just have to know where to look 🇨🇴☕️ Interestingly, Colombia scored this masterpiece without having runners breach the opponent's backline.

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202,877 views • 6 months ago

"McKennie understands everything in the turbulence of the match, those are real situations, not when you bring out numbers, IP, OOP, those are numbers which influence the value of the match, in that moment nothing happens..the chaos..uncertainty..those are the true situations."😎
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"McKennie understands everything in the turbulence of the match, those are real situations, not when you bring out numbers, IP, OOP, those are numbers which influence the value of the match, in that moment nothing happens..the chaos..uncertainty..those are the true situations."😎

Jamie Hamilton

120,076 views • 4 months ago

Even if the frontline does have 'in-front' players (Jesus, Odegaard, Trossard), it makes no difference if there are no coached intentions to maximise those skillsets. This is also true of Woltemade at Newcastle under Howe.
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Even if the frontline does have 'in-front' players (Jesus, Odegaard, Trossard), it makes no difference if there are no coached intentions to maximise those skillsets. This is also true of Woltemade at Newcastle under Howe.

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53,939 views • 1 month ago

Kim Hellberg's assistant coach David Selini speaking about developing these relationships through training. The idea is to create a common language of play, intelligible between their players, but incoherent to the opposition. An encoded, deceptive communication system. (Nov'22)
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Kim Hellberg's assistant coach David Selini speaking about developing these relationships through training. The idea is to create a common language of play, intelligible between their players, but incoherent to the opposition. An encoded, deceptive communication system. (Nov'22)

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95,395 views • 3 months ago

"Don't just play around them. Go in central! Yes, that's the central play! Don't just play around, it doesn't help us!. Yes, that's the quality. The central combinations! being brave!" - Kim Hellberg
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"Don't just play around them. Go in central! Yes, that's the central play! Don't just play around, it doesn't help us!. Yes, that's the quality. The central combinations! being brave!" - Kim Hellberg

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80,580 views • 3 months ago

It wasn't obvious then, but Ricardo La Volpe's 2006 Mexico was perhaps the team that most foreshadowed how football would develop over the next 18years. Huge influence on Guardiola. CMs#6#8 dropping into the backline would become known as 'salida lavolpiana' (La Volpe's Exit).
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It wasn't obvious then, but Ricardo La Volpe's 2006 Mexico was perhaps the team that most foreshadowed how football would develop over the next 18years. Huge influence on Guardiola. CMs#6#8 dropping into the backline would become known as 'salida lavolpiana' (La Volpe's Exit).

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327,381 views • 1 year ago

Racing Santander are playing football.
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Racing Santander are playing football.

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130,983 views • 6 months ago

In the short term, it's strange that a coach who has Wirtz and Ekitike doesn't see combination play as a primary way of breaking low blocks. In the longer term, emphasis on physicality (speed, strength, duels, etc.) fails to account for the fast-approaching biological ceilings.
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In the short term, it's strange that a coach who has Wirtz and Ekitike doesn't see combination play as a primary way of breaking low blocks. In the longer term, emphasis on physicality (speed, strength, duels, etc.) fails to account for the fast-approaching biological ceilings.

Jamie Hamilton

95,093 views • 5 months ago

If you enjoyed Jordan Campbell's article on Askou's Motherwell, then you might be interested in my video analysis with Roger Bonet "Ruxi" for @TH_GAME_CHANGER What does an 'asymmetric 4222 tilted towards the right flank' and 'dynamic positioning' look like in practice? Video below...
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If you enjoyed Jordan Campbell's article on Askou's Motherwell, then you might be interested in my video analysis with Roger Bonet "Ruxi" for @TH_GAME_CHANGER What does an 'asymmetric 4222 tilted towards the right flank' and 'dynamic positioning' look like in practice? Video below...

Jamie Hamilton

42,789 views • 2 months ago

IY This is Hamburg against Bayern's M2M. Is Hamburg's playing style also unattainable for EPL clubs?
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IY This is Hamburg against Bayern's M2M. Is Hamburg's playing style also unattainable for EPL clubs?

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33,095 views • 2 months ago

Hungary Head Coach Marco Rossi: 🇭🇺 ‘We are playing a kind of football that is less positional and more relational, and Dominik [Szoboszlai] is a player, together with others, who is free to go where he feels he can go…and this gives him more responsibility…’
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Hungary Head Coach Marco Rossi: 🇭🇺 ‘We are playing a kind of football that is less positional and more relational, and Dominik [Szoboszlai] is a player, together with others, who is free to go where he feels he can go…and this gives him more responsibility…’

Jamie Hamilton

186,382 views • 2 years ago

"...I think in the next 10 years we won't have any more positions in sectors...you can have all 3 forwards on the same side to make a superiority..." Andre Medeiros of Fluminense. I see this shift as inevitable; the future of attacking football is greater complexity, not less.
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"...I think in the next 10 years we won't have any more positions in sectors...you can have all 3 forwards on the same side to make a superiority..." Andre Medeiros of Fluminense. I see this shift as inevitable; the future of attacking football is greater complexity, not less.

Jamie Hamilton

71,000 views • 7 months ago

I get sent a lot of football from all over the world. It's fun discovering different coaches and teams developing interesting styles. If you're into film, you don't just watch Hollywood blockbusters. This is 24/25 Japanese 4th tier, Tiamo Hirakata under Ben Cahn.
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I get sent a lot of football from all over the world. It's fun discovering different coaches and teams developing interesting styles. If you're into film, you don't just watch Hollywood blockbusters. This is 24/25 Japanese 4th tier, Tiamo Hirakata under Ben Cahn.

Jamie Hamilton

49,568 views • 5 months ago