Breaking the defensive line: PSV’s “third man”.

In this new little analysis we abandon the "stopped ball" situations to see how Schimdt's PSV managed to score twice against league leaders Ajax coached by Ten Hag, in the top 10 clash January finished 2-2.


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Managing complexity from an early age

https://vimeo.com/467714164 Is it possible to immerse the child, right from the start, within the complexity typical of the game of football? What are the reasons that lead us to change the classic paradigms of training for children? I'm talking to you about it today together with my friend and colleague Mattia Rizzo.  


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Training the complexity of the game in football

The studies concerning the analysis of the game of football tell us about situations that change with a very high frequency, approximately every three to five seconds, for a thousand or more times in total, during a match. The player is therefore required to adapt and choose the right action to play at that particular moment. Among the…


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Proposals to create an exciting and motivating environment in times of covid-19 in the youth sector

COVID-19 AND EMOTIONS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS The psychological impact of isolation due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic caused by Covid-19 has been violent, particularly for children and adolescents, who have seen the possibility of responding to a series of fundamental needs characterizing the their age. Physical contact…


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The “choking” phenomenon

In this article we delve deeper into an interesting topic related to motor control treated by Frans Bosch, a Dutch university professor, one of the world's leading experts on the…


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Energy in motion.

The winner in happiness is the one who has many attitudes. (Silvio Ceccato). In the 80s Silvio Ceccato in "Engineering of Happiness" (Rizzoli, Milan 1985) addressed the theme relating to attentional and nervous energy. "This energy delivered from a source, in our case from the nervous system, has various possibilities. It can expand or…


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The need for a new paradigm for training and performance in sports

The new knowledge currently available to us regarding motor and sports learning in the neurobiological, psychological and pedagogical fields no longer represents a simple opportunity for growth and expansion of our training offer and capacity but rather a moral and professional imperative to rethink and redesign our approach to…


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Truncated intentionality

Whenever in an educational proposal we eliminate an opponent or a direction of play, we favor and stimulate, on the part of our students or adult players, the development of truncated intentionality, no longer linked to the purposeof the action (I pass the ball onto my teammate's run because he has space behind the opposing lines of…


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Energy in motion: the principle of safety

“In all mental hospitals there are many madmen possessed by many certainties!” F. Pessoa Where do we start from when talking about the energy principle relating to safety? From what I'm feeling exactly right now as I ask myself this question; that is, the insecurity of feeling capable or not of being able to deal with such a "big" topic,…


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Managing complexity from an early child: simplified forms

From circumstance to gesture, right away: in today's video I talk to you about a very useful tool for immersing children, even very young ones, in the complexity of the game of football. Together with my friend Mattia Rizzo we will see the simplified forms for the basic activity.


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Analysis of defensive corners: how to attack Atalanta’s layout

In our first meeting (video above) we analyzed the disposition of the 20 Serie A teams on the defensive corner kick situation. It is quite predictable to ask: which is the best? In set pieces, unlike movement situations, the efficiency ratio is much more direct. When we concede goals from…


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Loosing your marker by offside like Suarez

“He was born offside”, this is what Ferguson said of Filippo Inzaghi a few years ago, a phrase which is then cyclically repeated to describe those attackers who always find the right time to mock the opposing defenses and sprint undisturbed, finding themselves then alone in front of the opposing goalkeeper. Certainly the advent of VAR…


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