Rui Ferreira-Gomes

Guru Nanak: Sikhs, soccer and spirituality in Gravesend, Kent. — Terrace Edition You don’t have to be an expert on history to realise that Guru Nanak FC’s founders would have encountered some challenges along the way, when founding the team in 1965. The sociology of Asian immigran...

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Guru Nanak FC have travelled miles geographically, socially and on the pitch.

They play next to the largest Sikh Gurdwara in Europe, making one of English football's most eye-catching backdrops. 📸

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‘He is a magician’: how Ruben Amorim overcame his first crisis at Casa Pia The Manchester United manager began his coaching career with a club in turmoil whose players cried when he left

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God Jul, Feliz Natal, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad!

Gracias @martict99.bsky.social

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💡Haaland is Pepe version of Roberto Dueñas!

While here in Sweden, some football clubs are increasingly forcing early specialisation with heavy loads of weekly training, in other parts of Europe, the approach is...

Viktor Gyökeres: ”Får se när det är dags för PL – det lockar” Sveriges bästa fotbollsspelare 2024 LISSABON. Många gjorde bra saker i de bästa ligorna. En gjorde bäst saker i en bra liga. Så här sitter Viktor Gyökeres med e

Det var väl bara att man åkte till träningarna. Min pappa var min tränare, så vi åkte tillsammans. Sedan blev man bra kompis med de andra i laget, umgicks före och efter träningarna, att ha den gemenskapen var väldigt fint.

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Today was time for 🏏 during our ⚽️ training

🎨🔢⚽️ coaching problem!

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Tomaz Morais (Sporting Portugal Youth Director): "Sometimes I see training sessions that resemble Jogos sem Fronteiras (Games Without Borders), lacking any logic, simply because they look visually appealing, and I wonder if it wouldn't be better to just let them play!"

back in time, last summer fantastic charla by @martict99.bsky.social y Venezia FC Jordi Lie

tailored to a specific style of football. And what type of football should we focus on in training? The football these players would be playing 10 years later—not just based on the technical elements of the football being played at that time.

Carlos Queiroz

I studied the game and tried to understand the direction it was heading. Once I realised this, I held a seminar with the coaches where I aimed to convey the idea that players like Jorge Costa, Hélio, Figo, Jorge Couto, etc., who were 15 years old at the time, needed to undergo a training process

going back to last summer when discussing with @markstkhlm.bsky.social clubs now using apps that "teach how to play football", including AI coaching!

Uma bola de pano num charco
Um sorriso traquina, um chuto
Na ladeira a correr, um arco
E o céu no olhar dum puto

Words of Andreu Enrich:

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Ge dem tid att hitta lösningar ;)

that taught the game without the pressure or intrusion of parents, or later, would-be coaches.

John Cartwright

Thousands of hours were taken up in the street, school playground and wartime debris,for these places were the learning grounds of the footballers of the past. These mini Wembley’s provided competitive, small sided games of football with realistic football decision making a football apprenticeship 👇

“The defensive level was high, but the communication and the charisma, and the way that he talked to the team, it was different in comparison to the others.

Everyone paid attention to him,” Magalhaes says. “When we spoke to our scouting department about Ruben, some people thought, ‘Why Ruben? We have better centre-backs’. But we didn’t have centre-backs with those characteristics.

his technical level was lower than a lot of his team-mates during his early teenage years. But the academy staff valued other traits that were too good to ignore. “You see the way he communicated with his team-mates; he was like a general, like a leader.

The skill is knowing where and when to make allowances, in some instances delaying decisions on a young player to give them time to develop other attributes. In the case of Ruben Dias and this will come as a surprise to many 👇

The current Portuguese football quality, both players and coaches, began a long time ago, in 1989, with a group of visionary university students, professors