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Tifo Football Podcast The Athletic
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4.8 • 99 Ratings
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In-depth tactical, historical & geopolitical breakdowns of the beautiful game. From the team behind the Tifo Football YouTube channel.
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Bonus: Interview with Alessandro Del Piero
On this bonus episode of the Tifo Football Podcast, Mike Zimmermann is joined by Alessandro De Piero.
What is the most memorable moment from his Juventus career?
Reliving the World Cup triumph in 2006.
How is he helping to grow Serie A in the United States?
What are the expectations for Italy heading into Euro 2024?
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How we got Man United so wrong this season
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Aaron Moniz and Kees van Hemmen to revisit this season from a Manchester United perspective and explore what it was that meant we got Man United so wrong this season…
How would you tell the story of Man United this season to someone who hasn’t followed it?
What is the tactical reason that this season has gone so horribly wrong?
Once things started going wrong… was there any feasible solution?
So where does the club go from here?
Follow Aaron: @amonizfootball
Follow Kees: @HemmenKees
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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The Story of Liverpool's Analytics Revolution
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Josh Williams to explore the role that data has played in Liverpool’s revolution under owners FSG and to think about what the future of the club looks like from a data POV.
How much of the success of the last decade doesn’t come without FSG’s purchase of Liverpool?
When FSG arrived at the club, what were their intentions with regards using data?
Why is Michael Edwards so pivotal of a figure in this history?
How will Liverpool use data when appointing a new manager?
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This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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The Art of Analysing Up-and-Coming Coaches
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Mark Carey and Liam Tharme to explore the ideas of some up and coming managers (Still, Motta, Fonseca) and to dig into the deeper question of how do we decide if a manager is *good* or not…
What is Will Still’s tactical approach?
What is the correlation between Thiago Motta’s deep build up with strong defensive numbers?
Why is Paolo Fonseca’s Lille so good on the ball?
Which of these coaches are going to succeed?
Football’s best up-and-coming managers: https://theathletic.com/5339076/2024/03/25/thiago-motta-up-and-coming-managers/
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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Patience, Positional Play and the Future of Football Tactics
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Martin Rafelt to explore the idea of patience as a category within football, particularly in relation to positional play - before then digging deeper into where football tactics is right now.
What is positional play?
Exploring the contradiction between “winning mentality” and “positional play”.
How can impatience be bad for teams who rely on intense counter-pressing and direct attacking?
Is there an approach that is perhaps riskier, but has better output overall and is quicker and less of a test of patience?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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The future of Postecoglou's Spurs
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Nathan Clark to reflect back on the last 6 months of Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs and look forward to the future.
What has happened in the first six months of the Postecoglou era?
Has anything changed with Ange Postecoglou’s tactical approach?
What are the tactical weaknesses in Postecoglou’s system in the Premier League?
Can Postecoglou get Spurs competing for the Premier League title?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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Customer Reviews
5⭐️
Informative and the hosts have great podcast voices* and chemistry.
* - voices that don’t sound grating
Presenter no idea what’s going on
The presenter has never seen any of the games. Every single podcast the majority of it is spent with him asking what the games were, what happened in the games and half the podcasts is the guys explaining to him information we all already know. I’m listening for insight and perspectives that I am not otherwise supposed to have picked up on myself. Really confusing to understand how the guys being paid to present something he’s clueless about. Seems like a decent guy in all but makes no sense whatsoever to have someone so unprepared for their job on the podcast.
More like impossible transfers
This is decent podcast but the sensible transfer series is awful. It’s just a chance for the hosts to show you they know of promising players in you’ve never heard of. It seems more pompous then anything.