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NEW: With Naomi Girma having broken the million dollar transfer threshold, which other players could command a seven-figure fee?
@meganferinga.bsky.social and I look at some worthy options, from prolific scorers to the next wave of global stars: www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...
@meganferinga.bsky.social and I look at some worthy options, from prolific scorers to the next wave of global stars: www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...
After Naomi Girma’s record-breaking transfer, who will be the next major-money move?
These are the players who could benefit from crossing the $1million transfer threshold
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
NEW: With Naomi Girma having broken the million dollar transfer threshold, which other players could command a seven-figure fee?
@meganferinga.bsky.social and I look at some worthy options, from prolific scorers to the next wave of global stars: www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...
@meganferinga.bsky.social and I look at some worthy options, from prolific scorers to the next wave of global stars: www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...
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All traditions are a novelty at first. Feel like the climax to the new CL group stage might be one of those that becomes A Thing, like transfer deadline day or FA Cup 3rd round weekend. 18 games, all at once, all contingent on each other. It's...fun. www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...
Welcome to Matchday Mayhem, an event UEFA hopes will become a Champions League tradition
Twenty-seven of the competition's 36 teams are still alive - it's exactly what UEFA wanted when designing this new Champions League format
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
All traditions are a novelty at first. Feel like the climax to the new CL group stage might be one of those that becomes A Thing, like transfer deadline day or FA Cup 3rd round weekend. 18 games, all at once, all contingent on each other. It's...fun. www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...
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"Support Sportswashing for an autocratic state again? DFB: You spineless a***holes!"
VfB Stuttgart ultra group Commando Cannstatt are the latest to criticize Germany's FA (DFB) for voting in favor of handing the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia.
Via @kurvenhelden.bsky.social
VfB Stuttgart ultra group Commando Cannstatt are the latest to criticize Germany's FA (DFB) for voting in favor of handing the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia.
Via @kurvenhelden.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 6:59 PM
"Support Sportswashing for an autocratic state again? DFB: You spineless a***holes!"
VfB Stuttgart ultra group Commando Cannstatt are the latest to criticize Germany's FA (DFB) for voting in favor of handing the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia.
Via @kurvenhelden.bsky.social
VfB Stuttgart ultra group Commando Cannstatt are the latest to criticize Germany's FA (DFB) for voting in favor of handing the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia.
Via @kurvenhelden.bsky.social
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📝 Las notas de las jugadoras azulgranas en su victoria 0-3 ante el Hammarby
El 1x1 del Barça femenino contra el Hammarby
Las catalanas se llevaron los tres puntos de Suecia y se jugarán el miércoles la primera plaza del grupo contra el Manchester City
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December 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
📝 Las notas de las jugadoras azulgranas en su victoria 0-3 ante el Hammarby
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Sudan: Football & the Forgotten War
Against the odds Sudan qualified for AFCON & top WC qualifying…
...despite not being able to play at home due to a civil war that’s caused the worst humanitarian crisis on earth
Special new episode of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast
🎧 Listen
pod.fo/e/28691f
Against the odds Sudan qualified for AFCON & top WC qualifying…
...despite not being able to play at home due to a civil war that’s caused the worst humanitarian crisis on earth
Special new episode of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast
🎧 Listen
pod.fo/e/28691f
The Athletic FC Podcast: Sudan: Football and the Forgotten War
In April 2023, civil war broke out in Sudan. It continues to this day leaving in its wake the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the United Nations.Despite this, Sudan’s nationa...
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November 24, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Sudan: Football & the Forgotten War
Against the odds Sudan qualified for AFCON & top WC qualifying…
...despite not being able to play at home due to a civil war that’s caused the worst humanitarian crisis on earth
Special new episode of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast
🎧 Listen
pod.fo/e/28691f
Against the odds Sudan qualified for AFCON & top WC qualifying…
...despite not being able to play at home due to a civil war that’s caused the worst humanitarian crisis on earth
Special new episode of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast
🎧 Listen
pod.fo/e/28691f
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Introducing Diego Luna, MLS Young Player of the Year.
In this expansive long read, Luna tells SCOUTED his story of coffee, community, futsal and outside-of-the-foot passes – and hints at what comes next.
In this expansive long read, Luna tells SCOUTED his story of coffee, community, futsal and outside-of-the-foot passes – and hints at what comes next.
Diego Luna shoots for the moon
The MLS’ Young Player of the Year looks to the sky - while fighting to keep both feet on the ground.
www.scoutednotebook.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Introducing Diego Luna, MLS Young Player of the Year.
In this expansive long read, Luna tells SCOUTED his story of coffee, community, futsal and outside-of-the-foot passes – and hints at what comes next.
In this expansive long read, Luna tells SCOUTED his story of coffee, community, futsal and outside-of-the-foot passes – and hints at what comes next.
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👇 sports are a microcosm of the broader issue that so much of the way we think about things is what and how we’ve chosen to count and record things
“Made-up” almost always feels like short hand for “this challenges the fundamental truths I’ve constructed to make sense of a senseless world, and now I’m mad at you.”
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
👇 sports are a microcosm of the broader issue that so much of the way we think about things is what and how we’ve chosen to count and record things
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FEATURE | "Golden Boy" Maghnes Akliouche (22) knocking on Didier Deschamps' door.
🖊️ @lukeentwistle.bsky.social
www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2024/feature...
🖊️ @lukeentwistle.bsky.social
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FEATURE | 'Golden Boy' Maghnes Akliouche knocking on Didier Deschamps' door - Get French Football News
There is the ability to show moments of technical brilliance but being able to do so repeatedly is what separates the good from the great. Maghnes Akliouche
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November 24, 2024 at 12:00 PM
FEATURE | "Golden Boy" Maghnes Akliouche (22) knocking on Didier Deschamps' door.
🖊️ @lukeentwistle.bsky.social
www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2024/feature...
🖊️ @lukeentwistle.bsky.social
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The Championship is a fascinating league with fascinating young talent, including in midfield. For @analyticsfc.bsky.social, I highlighted some of the young midfielders in the division, and how they're each making their own impact analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/11...
Market Analysis: Young Midfielders in the Championship - Analytics FC
Mohamed Mohamed is back with another scouting epic, this time assessing a range of midfielders in England's fertile second tier
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November 28, 2024 at 10:07 PM
The Championship is a fascinating league with fascinating young talent, including in midfield. For @analyticsfc.bsky.social, I highlighted some of the young midfielders in the division, and how they're each making their own impact analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/11...
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Inverting the Pyramid for people who can't be bothered to read it - the history of football tactics in a single diagram.
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theblizzard.co.uk/shop/merchan...
November 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Inverting the Pyramid for people who can't be bothered to read it - the history of football tactics in a single diagram.
theblizzard.co.uk/shop/merchan...
theblizzard.co.uk/shop/merchan...
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Enzo Fernandez was brilliant against Leicester, but it’s not just his quality on the ball, the goal, the assist, or even the off ball work he did… It’s the intelligence
November 25, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Enzo Fernandez was brilliant against Leicester, but it’s not just his quality on the ball, the goal, the assist, or even the off ball work he did… It’s the intelligence
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Think @blayasensat.bsky.social said it, but Barca lose a lot when Raphinha has to create rather than run.
It’s not that he’s a bad creator, I really like the directness of his passing. But there’s nobody else replicating those runs.
It’s not that he’s a bad creator, I really like the directness of his passing. But there’s nobody else replicating those runs.
November 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Think @blayasensat.bsky.social said it, but Barca lose a lot when Raphinha has to create rather than run.
It’s not that he’s a bad creator, I really like the directness of his passing. But there’s nobody else replicating those runs.
It’s not that he’s a bad creator, I really like the directness of his passing. But there’s nobody else replicating those runs.
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“While player searches are ‘deductive’, the final decision is often ‘intuitive’”
@billycarpy.bsky.social rarely misses
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@billycarpy.bsky.social rarely misses
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After Edu
My look at the future of the sporting director role at Arsenal turned into a huge scouting report on potential candidate Roberto Olabe of Real Sociedad. Here it is.
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November 23, 2024 at 12:06 PM
“While player searches are ‘deductive’, the final decision is often ‘intuitive’”
@billycarpy.bsky.social rarely misses
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@billycarpy.bsky.social rarely misses
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🇪🇸 🏆 ⚽️ FT: #Celta 2-2 #Barcelona
A wild match ends in a draw! #Barça squander a two-goal lead in a disappointing performance, missing #LamineYamal’s spark once again. 😕
#RealMadrid now have two games in hand and a chance to close the gap at the top to four points. 🔥
A wild match ends in a draw! #Barça squander a two-goal lead in a disappointing performance, missing #LamineYamal’s spark once again. 😕
#RealMadrid now have two games in hand and a chance to close the gap at the top to four points. 🔥
November 23, 2024 at 10:27 PM
🇪🇸 🏆 ⚽️ FT: #Celta 2-2 #Barcelona
A wild match ends in a draw! #Barça squander a two-goal lead in a disappointing performance, missing #LamineYamal’s spark once again. 😕
#RealMadrid now have two games in hand and a chance to close the gap at the top to four points. 🔥
A wild match ends in a draw! #Barça squander a two-goal lead in a disappointing performance, missing #LamineYamal’s spark once again. 😕
#RealMadrid now have two games in hand and a chance to close the gap at the top to four points. 🔥
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November 23, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Video Analysis of Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen: Mastering "Playing Through the Press" and Adapting to Man-Oriented Pressing vimeo.com/1031470735?s...
playthr-vs-man-orientation
This is "playthr-vs-man-orientation" by Tayyab Khan on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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November 20, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Video Analysis of Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen: Mastering "Playing Through the Press" and Adapting to Man-Oriented Pressing vimeo.com/1031470735?s...
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How not to fix a team’s vulnerability in transitions: pushing your *only* players capable of defending space into an attack
Man City 0 : 4 Spurs
▪ xG: 2.43 - 2.78
▪ xThreat: 2.14 - 1.26
▪ Possession: 58.4% - 41.6%
▪ Field Tilt: 75.5% - 24.5%
▪ Def Action Height: 57.2 - 32.3
▪ xG: 2.43 - 2.78
▪ xThreat: 2.14 - 1.26
▪ Possession: 58.4% - 41.6%
▪ Field Tilt: 75.5% - 24.5%
▪ Def Action Height: 57.2 - 32.3
November 23, 2024 at 8:06 PM
How not to fix a team’s vulnerability in transitions: pushing your *only* players capable of defending space into an attack
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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPHINHAAAA 🔥
November 23, 2024 at 8:15 PM
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPHINHAAAA 🔥
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Rodri may be the most pivot-al player in the world, but this isn’t all him. A lot of it was simmering last year — but they just kept hitting bangers.
They had 26 goals from 18+ yards out, 16 more than Arsenal, and they were often of the “bailout” variety
They had 26 goals from 18+ yards out, 16 more than Arsenal, and they were often of the “bailout” variety
November 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Rodri may be the most pivot-al player in the world, but this isn’t all him. A lot of it was simmering last year — but they just kept hitting bangers.
They had 26 goals from 18+ yards out, 16 more than Arsenal, and they were often of the “bailout” variety
They had 26 goals from 18+ yards out, 16 more than Arsenal, and they were often of the “bailout” variety
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Not sure if Bergas is on here but this is a nice piece over on @analyticsfc.bsky.social
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analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/11...
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analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/11...
Man-to-Man Marking: The Throwback System Helping Bundesliga Teams Defend Better - Analytics FC
Bergas Brillianto speaks to Vincent Kompany and Alexander Blessin about the recurrence of a classic defensive system in Germany
analyticsfc.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Not sure if Bergas is on here but this is a nice piece over on @analyticsfc.bsky.social
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analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/11...
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analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/11...