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Clubs
How the best soccer academies develop talent: four models compared
Academies that keep producing first-team players share habits, not budgets. Here is how the main models differ, and what each one costs a young player.
Articles by Gordon Fielding
Clubs
How FSU can use Central Arkansas to fix a stumbling start
A -44.5-point spread says the game should be easy. The checklist that makes it easy is more interesting than the number.
Gordon Fielding
Development
Youth soccer development: building skills the right way from six to sixteen
What to coach, what to wait on, and why the calendar matters more than the drill sheet.
Gordon Fielding
Analysis
How pressing triggers reveal where teams collapse under intensity
A pressing trigger is the moment a defence chooses to strike. Reading those moments — and the collapses they expose — is where match analysis earns its keep.
Gordon Fielding
Sport News
How the double pivot changed modern buildup play
The double pivot — two holding midfielders screening the defense — solved modern pressing by giving buildup a spare man, and the game's best documented dynasties ran through one.
Gordon Fielding
Clubs
How football language crossed borders and never left
A Panenka in Prague, a rabona in Buenos Aires, a clean sheet in Tokyo — football's vocabulary travels lighter than its players.
Gordon Fielding