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The rules state that, in football, there are only two positions: those who can touch the ball with their hands and those who cannot. Training, however, often focuses on the latter, while the former, the goalkeepers, are separated from the group with a coach that some call “trainer” and others “entertainer”. With Lluís, Diego, and Manu, we aim to integrate a player that has continuously been isolated from the team. Here starts the conversation in Spanish. The English version is available on the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeJOAN CORTÉS | The coaching genius My Turn: The Autobiography | Johan CruyffPep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich | Martí PerarnauA Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke | Ronald RengALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingÓSCAR CANO | Essential footballAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

There are coaches who seek empty forms devoid of meaning, and others who pursue functions full of purpose. Some work on “ideal” decontextualized patterns, while others encourage uncertain and adaptive behaviors. Some memorize, store, and implement drills and models mechanistically, while others explore and adapt efficiently to the uniqueness of each context they encounter. The same applies to those in charge of methodology. After all, they are coaches in a different context, with a different label. Joan Alcaraz belongs to the latter group, and he shares how he approaches this as the Methodology Director of RCD Mallorca. Now, the conversation in Spanish. The English version is available on the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeAluminosis organizacional | Xavier MarcetRadical | Cristopher ZallaThe Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation | Jaques RancièreCoaching meditations | Andreu EnrichDexterity and its development | Nicholai A. BernsteinTraining or Synergizing? Complex Systems Principles Change the Understanding of Sport Processes | Rafel Pol, Natàlia Balagué, Angel Ric, Carlota Torrents, John Kiely & Robert HristovskiTraining or Synergizing? Complex Systems Principles Change the Understanding of Sport Processes | Rafel Pol, Natàlia Balagué, Angel Ric, Carlota Torrents, John Kiely & Robert HristovskiALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingTodo se puede entrenar | Toni Nadal This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Óscar Cano is not a football coach: he is an incredibly sharp person who happens to have chosen to make a positive impact on football teams. Óscar is one of the few who elevates our profession. The beloved Taleb says you should never read a book that can be summarized. Because then, it is not a book. This is exactly how I feel about my conversation with Óscar: it is impossible to describe it. Up next, you can listen to it in Spanish. If you prefer the English version, you have it available in the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episode:Juan Belmonte, matador de toros | Manuel Chaves NogalesDel Bayern de Munich al Bayern de Pep | Óscar Cano MorenoAlways think before computing! | Rafel Pol & Natàlia BalaguéJOAN CORTÉS | The coaching geniusÀLEX TERÉS | Thank you for doubtingFour Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals | Oliver BurkemanJORDI FERNÁNDEZ | Questioning methodologiesÓscar Cano: “El sentimiento que hay que desarrollar en el ser humano es el de utilidad, el de la inclusión.” | Pablo BeltránLa frontera invisible | Kilian JornetLa lengua de las mariposas | José Luis Cuerda This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Andreu Enrich has understood it perfectly: he is a COACH, in all caps, with every letter. It does not matter the sport. Because Andreu knows that, both on and off the field, it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, that what is essential is invisible to the eye... or to the whiteboard where many draw technical-tactical arrows. Up next, Andreu shares his authentic perspective to us in Catalan. If you’re interested in the English version, the YouTube video of the episode is waiting for you.Martí Cañellas | Fosbury FlopNotes of the episodeCoaching meditations | Andreu EnrichCitadelle | Antonie Saint-ExupéryThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas TalebLa Preparación ¿Física? en el fútbol | Rafel PolExploring the Relationship of Declarative Tactical Knowledge With Participation, Football Competence, and Potentiality in a Professional Club (Real Sociedad) | Rubén Sánchez-López, Ibon Echeazarra, Jon Mikel Arrieta & Julen CastellanoSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah HarariJORDI FERNÁNDEZ | Questioning methodologies’Visualise tragedies —not commedies’ - A conversation with Andreu Enrich | The Talent Equation PodcastCreativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed CatmullDirect theory of perception | GibsonTheory of Cooperative-Competitive Intelligence: Principles, Research Directions, and Applications | Robert Hristovski & Natàlia BalaguéDecisiones vitales | Pep MaríSMALL-SIDED GAMES: How to effectively train your players in variable and complex environments | Andreu EnrichHockey: 50 Tips From Intelligent Players | Andreu Enrich This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Pau Casassa is the technical director of the Barça Academy in Catalonia and around the world. They don’t coach football players, they coach kids who play football. And they do it with a playing idea that does not seek the results at any cost. The Barça idea is the one that brings a team closer to victory exciting the people who practice it, the spectators who observe it. An idea to train football that can transform lives, that makes Barça more than a Club. Pau explains it to us in Catalan. You have the English version available in the YouTube video of the episode.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blogNotes of the episodeADN Barça | Paco Seirul·loEl mejor libro de táctica y las probabilidades | Juanma Lillo ALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingLa evolución táctica del fútbol | Martí PerarnauWill Coello be the Fosbury of padel?JAMES VAUGHAN | Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you how you playUniversal Play Grammar | Ted KroetenThe Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business | Erin MeyerRange: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David EpsteinThe Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation | Jaques RancièreLa preparación física no existe | Paco Seirul·lo & Ángel Cappa This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Shawn Myszka started training players of the National Football League trying to make them bigger, leaner and stronger. Everything changed the day he asked himself: Are the players performing because of me or in spite of me? He didn’t like the answer and led him to become a Skill Acquisition Specialist for NFL players. In a sport where training is based on dribbling cones and running ladders as fast as possible... Shawn brings some sanity and hope.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

In training, we have increasingly accepted that we will never find the perfect technique, because it will depend on the characteristics of the player who executes it in the environment she is in; we are beginning to assume that there will never be a universal collective game model, but that its perfection will depend on the individual and emerging qualities of those who make up the group. Why, then, do we continue to seek and monetize supposedly perfect, universal and absolute methodologies that lead to success regardless of where they are applied or by whom? Isn’t this thought contrary to everything we preach? Are methodologies such as Tactical Periodization or Structured Training sources of empowerment or prisons for the coaches’ thinking and quality? We spend more and more resources on player improvement... but who cares about the coach? Or only players need to learn because we, the coaches, already know everything? Is the methodology of a club a cause or a consequence? These doubts were awakened in me by Jordi Fernández: current Methodology Coordinator of Venezia FC and former member of the Methodology Area of FC Barcelona. Next, you will find his reflections in Spanish; if you want it in English, don’t miss the YouTube video of the episode. Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe