What can football players learn from people like Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs? Decision Fatigue is an interesting topic that hasn’t been talked about enough in football. We explained in an earlier blog, what a decision is and how we make decisions. This blog can be read here. Nowadays players make 1000s of…
Which coaching style suits which personality? In the previous article, we talked about the different types of learning and the different personalities of learning. As a coach, you want to find out what your player responds to best. Because this will make the player learn things faster. By finding out the learning style, you can…
“Every learning style needs a different approach” In our article series about individual tactics, we established a basic framework about the different concepts within individual tactics. Think about the whole process of the individual tactics, perception, decisions, and execution. But just knowing this process is not enough. We have to know how we’re going to…
The more knowledgeable coaches are on the pitch, the better? In a typical football club, the technical staff might consist of a head coach, two or three assistant coaches and specialized coaches for the goalkeepers, defenders and attackers. Then there is the supporting staff: the physical coach, physical therapist, perhaps a sport scientist and one…
Modern-day attackers aren’t just attackers anymore “Defenders should be dependable, attackers should be unpredictable” is the common stereotype. The first part is definitely true, as one defender’s mistake could lead to an opportunity for the opponent. That’s why many people believe that individual video analysis is more valuable to defenders than it is to attackers.…
How to make a successful action on the pitch through individual tactics We’ve written a series of articles about the theory of individual tactics. We described and explained every step in the process of an individual tactic. In this article, we will give a practical overview of what happens in reality when you lack the…
Why do executions always get the most attention from TV analysts? The last step in individual tactics is execution. The execution always gets the most attention, because this is what is most easy to see. The TV analysts show how the striker is all alone in front of the keeper and scores but they don’t…
This strategic decision made Matthijs de Ligt We talked about how decisions form and what stages of decision making there are. To read back that article, click here. In this article we will go deeper into the subject of decision making, we will discuss the two types of decisions that you can make. The…
Become a master of decision making In the last weeks, we’ve talked about individual tactics. We concluded that individual tactics consist of perception, decision, and execution. After this we wrote about perception, these articles can be read here, here, and here. The next subject of individual tactics is the decision. Decision-making in football is talked about a…
Johan Cruijff said this about head checks In which direction do you do a head check? We have talked about which situations you have to do a head check and when you want and don’t want to do a head check. But you also have to know where to look. We already talked a…