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What can football (soccer) learn from basketball and american football? (Patreon)

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2021-09-28 21:12:17

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American Football Basketball Corner Kicks Direct Free Kick Indirect Free-Kick Lateral Free Kick Set Pieces

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Corner Kick - Right Side v Zonal Defense - Empoli v Bologna.mp4
Corner Kick - Left Side v Mixed Marking - Watford v Newcastle.mp4
Corner Kick - Left Side v Mixed Marking - Manchester United v Aston Villa.mp4
Lateral Free Kick - Left Side v High Line - RB Leipzig v Hertha Berlin.mp4
Direct Free Kick (Attack the possible 2nd ball) - Hoffenheim v Wolfsburg.mp4
Indirect Free Kick - Paços de Ferreira v Belenenses.mp4
Lateral Free Kick - Left Side v Low Line - Bochum v VfB Stuttgart.mp4

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Luke Bornn (former head of analytics at AS Roma) at Training Ground Guru Podcast:

I think that football teams can learn a lot from both basketball and american football in the design of set pieces.

Basketball:

- The way that basketball players think about screens, which is essentially, getting in the way of your opposition and, using your body sort of tactically in a quote unquote legal way.

American Football:

- Ultimately it's about creating space and creating opportunities. Set pieces, if you think about what that is, delivery aside, you can think about a corner: you're ultimately - it's about creating moments of space and opportunity for a guy to get his head/foot on the ball. American football coaches have been doing this for the last hundred years, which is design co-ordinated actions that open up space for receivers to receive the ball.

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