We all want the ball. But only a team can have

Since the beginning of the blog that tries to pass a different view of the traditional football game, so common in the nineties. So common in so many teams still in date!

Especially the emphasis on collective proceedings. In like manner teams move together. As the movement or X option determines the Y, the Z, etc. The emphasis on making the ball carrier's decision. The search for the superiorities. Decide according to the game situation that most approaches to team success, regardless of "fame".

Regardless of weapons (individual) the focus always on the offensive process. If decision-making is excellent (as it should always be!), Possession is accentuated. The time you spend with the ball is higher. Control is emphasize and the domain with good offensive principles. The Fortune favor the bold, it is said. And wanting to be offensive regardless of opponent is a virtue that is rewarded more often than it ends up being who chooses the path without the ball. Who chooses the way of playing only in defensive Organization, and deliver the ball after recovery, so as not to subject it to the opposing offensive transition.

However, it is a glaring mistake to think that because it gives greater weight greater focus on offensive moments, one can neglect the defensive. It's a huge mistake to believe that because they always want to have the ball, the defensive processes may be rudimentary. There is a ball for two teams! Even offensively they are both fabulous, when confronted, either or both, have less than usual ball!

The best are capable of excellence at all times! Even though well spend more time in which the defensive offensive! 

It is wrong to think that preparing a team of offensive excellence in processes requires whole world of time and as such, defensive moments are not worked. After all, they withdrew workout time to what matters most. Nothing more false! Always depends on the coach's ability to operationalized what idealizes. But that competent coach can not / does not integrate more than one moment of the game in your workouts? As if the offensive coaching Organization, did not involve coaching defensive Organization or transitions simultaneously!

Of course there is and there will always be the coaches of a more traditional school, opting for more standardize exercises, unopposed to get where you want. Of course, who does it, it works every time, each phase, each situation separately and there naturally will think to be more offensive involves removing competence / working time on the defensive. Also of course such coaches as those who only prepare his team for one or two moments of the game, or preparing for more, do not show excellence in such situations, are not counted here as the top of world football. 

Pictured not only the coach who wants and can do it! have the ball with you. But also the coach who controls more all times. The best defence in the world transition. Because after the inauguration, there will be goal or loss. Pictured who revolutionize the entire game. God Guardiola.

Play well and have opportunities

Not only is the majority of fans who do not have a sense of what is really play well and justify his place. Or have opportunities.

A few days ago Baby, stated "I think we deserved more. If you are not opportunities can not show value."

Such thinking just part of a mistaken premise and shows immediately the perception that the Portuguese has the game. Ending almost immediately to justify having had a few minutes. Totally different to have had opportunities to show value.

Baby did not think that opportunities because they have no idea who is playing well. As ninety percent of the people to follow football do not.Baby believe that one has played more minutes could have made a goal in one of his strong shots, and as such justifying play more at the next meeting and so on.

It turns out that playing well has nothing to do with hit with a ball in or pass goal, or steal four balls. Playing well is to be well in the large majority of actions by him. With ball and without the ball. Baby can make two anthology of goals in the same game but in all other actions decide poorly, get sick, lose the ball, or even not claim with its decision away from the successful team, baby will have made a level of play weak. Because scored two goals, but prevented his team could do more nine or ten. 

This is what today so many players do not realise. The opportunities they have. Every day have the opportunity to show in training the coach that are better than peers. That's the real opportunity. Put someone on the field just because every X time a shot can end your beacon in the background, while in all other actions only hurts, it's not a matter of mere faith of the coach. Really silly. 

Everyday Baby has the opportunity to show value. Even if not to the general public. It turns out not is because the value has not be what you think it has. 

And justify playing at the weekend has everything to do with showing that I can field the team is closer to get there. Because you know decide. Know closer to success. And not because occasionally to make a good pass or a good goal, passing the remaining time to add nonsense.

Paco and teaching the game

"I try to always learn and Paco knows it. He talks to me and tries to explain to me things so you can do my job well. I am glad to be worried about me,the way I work. I am improving every day, "said the Portuguese in the game pre-match press conference with Eibar. 

" I needed to improve to play the game . Now I'm training and I think I'm better than I was.The coach is helping me and I will continue to improve with practice, "he added..

The interviews show immense thing about what happens in practice and what players need (or want) to grow. 

The interpretation of the game is important on the defensive phase, but it is even more important when our team has the ball. That passing lanes give, where to draw the opponent, where and how the unbalance for the ball to arrive in the best condition to the end zone.

When Bebe says it now has training, reveals what happened in all the years I played football so far. Or did not explain what you were doing and what the transfer to the game, or he did not realize ...

Or, and more likely, the training had no clear transfer to the game.

Examples:

- Running in the woods with backpacks of marines back. Even explained ... has little transfer to the game. Can serve as group dynamics, can serve for general fitness gains, but the glaring lack of specificity, prevents make  sense. Would be like a Crossfit athlete suddenly come play football. Obviously, this in an impressive physical form, the Rich Fronning] and seen as the man in better condition physically in the world, still .... 10 minutes to play 6v6 in half a football field and tapassem his mouth he fall to the side.

- Completion exercises any, feint 2 mannequins and ends. The player believes this to work completion, but still specificity is much reduced because there is no need to relate to colleagues and opponents, influencing every decision we take.

- Direction with games, colleagues and opponents, with a minimum of 2 3v3 with goalkeeper. The player is not directly identifies the transfer to the game, but all the actions  they perform are within the Game Center and thus decisive for Sunday things go better. A 4v4 where each time a player passes the ball must clear towards goal with the other players have to adapt to maintain the structure, it may seem a silly thing, because a player playing central defense, will rarely do one ball forward, but go through these experiences will improve your understanding of the game. 

To improve the understanding of the game, will be able to predict and anticipate situations for and against, when the game goes from 4v4 to 11v11. 

A player who feels that the coach cares about him, the coach explains to him things are  much more open to follow what the coach asks you, even if it's different things that came to him so far.

Hardly a player with Bebe profile will make in their lifetime things like Nolito. The decision profile] and radically different. But it will certainly, in time and with some success in the actions, improve a little. And sometimes that's all it takes.

Klopp and the importance of training

A few weeks after entering the club, and with players who hardly played or will not even enter in the accounts for the overwhelming majority of the league games ..

• High blood pressure and intense, with the player who will press to have the concern to first close a Pass Line and then press.With colleagues to close the lines pass nearby and constantly have 3 or 4 players close to the game center. Players of the defensive line to show constantly through body language where colleagues must adjust. 
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• Player with ball often with 4 supports (forward, backward, left and right) near and visible (not worth being in the XYZ position one is an opponent to close the pass line, only count as lines if A is able to connect with B without interference from an opponent).

Does anyone think this would be possible only with lectures? No (very good) training, it would be impossible to achieve collective behavior as well defined. And, we repeat, players with little or no use. 

Round to Maradona, Maradona to round, round to Maradona. The birthday of God is always celebrated here

Everything about Maradona is a legend.

Was ninety-four, that FIFA shattered, all definitely a childhood dream that turned teenager.

It was a child eight years ago, but already Argentino. They have Maradona, never tired of repeating my older and more cunning cousin Sergio.

The TV news opened with the deeds of a quietly dominating the world.It was my first best player in the world, and we all know how special it is. His goals in Mexico, its endless plays that destroçavam as all those who crossed his path. Although small in stature, so bright that it jumps higher than Peter Shilton and head eliminates England. Our Argentina is sagrara-World Champion. How could it be otherwise? We have Maradona!

Three years later, fate decreed that the path of Napoli is crossed with Portugal. Maradona comes to Portugal. Well I remember the excitement was knowing that this would happen. In fact, it is impossible to recall another time when someone more important around here has passed. It is in eighty-nine for the first time desiludo me. Not with Maradona. Never with him. Alberto Bigon leaves the star sitting in Alvalade bank, and still do not understand why not put that bench in the museum of the club. Maradona goes, but it's sixteen. The best sixteen of my life, guaranteed. But Maradona was ten and since then I have not forgotten over the Italian coach's name you betrayed me. It is in this round someone commits the greatest achievement I remember. Ivkovic, goalkeeper Sporting, advocates a penalty of Maradona.

It is in ninety-four who commit the most terrible injustice in living memory. Maradona is back, it is well and kicking. Reloads a country on his shoulders. Plays, brand, makes playing. We will be champions again, I think. We - Maradona!

Already after shattered the Greek selection, the television news reopens with Diego. FIFA infamous back to punish him. Cocaine use is the advanced lie to withdraw from the tournament its brightest star. Of course, a larger organization fears what may crave Argentina in Maradona wings. A huge lie, which will one day be corrected. Today I am certain.

Do not. Maradona never disappointed me. Guilt always been in that gravitated around him.

Cycling - For Indurain, Landa is "present and future of Spanish cycling"

Miguel Indurain, five-time Tour de France, said the Basque rider Mikel Landa, running in on Team Sky next season, is the "present and future" of Spanish cycling and confessed that after the "point in your walk "that has occurred in 2015, when" is the level of this year "may gain some big round.

" Landa is the future and present. It takes a few years to solid and this year has made ​​a point in his walk. The others already have years, soon will leave, and he and others are the future of cycling, "he said Indurain.

"Physically, Landa has taken a major leap this year and mentally you have to see if he takes that responsibility cycling champion," confessed exciclista Navarre, who was confident in the Alava corridor to win some big round soon.

"If you follow the level of this year itself. Make a great return to the level that has made it difficult, because besides being a team leader, physical and mental are other odd jobs or responsibilities that can block you," he said.

"There are people who have done good years and then when you have the responsibility have not learned to manage it. Let's see how he responds. You try it and see how it assimilates, but I think it has a way of being that can handle the pressure " he said.

For Indurain, there is a generation of Spanish cyclist Joaquim Rodriguez, Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde that "age will leave soon, although they are holding a high-level long time."

"There are young people coming. Landa is one, but there are others. It is difficult because this is already global, but sooner or later have to take some of that responsibility," said Indurain, who took part in a cycling day inclusive sport by Madrid center organized by the Sanitas Foundation.

Finally, Indurain would not go to value the intention of Alberto Contador in 2016 to face his last Tour de France and whether this decision could affect performance.

"It is the last Tour or not, every race has been struggling the most. What he has done in his career is to play to stop all, has never ceased to be him, and in 2016 if it comes will full "he concluded.