1 hr 6 min

Patience, Positional Play and the Future of Football Tactics Tifo Football Podcast

    • Soccer

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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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.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 hr 6 min

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