Andersonjr: But I heard the series is in German language is there any subtitles or interpretations?
It is in German but i'm sure you can get the English dubbed or dual audio online.
Personally, i enjoy watching shows in their original languages. The originality adds to the trill. Try checking TFPDL.. their shows usually come with English subtitles.
TheGoodJoe: I summarized my understanding in a nutshell of finding the Spaces. That was what Xavi was good at, finding it. Same with the likes of Scholes and Pirlo. Sometimes, before the ball reaches him, he has seen the space and with a smart quick pass, the ball is into space for his team mate to have time to cause damage.
Even in a tight situations, the player at the back is in space. Under tight press, the keeper is in Space. If the press the keeper, with the Space, he has time to pick the defensive midfielder, who is Space to build up play to the wingers in Space.
Xavi played with this idea and made sure he always got the ball to the players in Space and in tight situation, created them.
edi287: Agree but I don't think he'll be a great coach. Being a great coach isn't solely about understanding the game but being able to impart that knowledge on players. I also haven't forgiven him for saying Henry was just a physical player and lacked technical ability. Let's not forget he has bigged up a number of flops i.e Samper, etc.
I have zero doubts about xavi's understanding of the game, where I have little doubts is his ability to recognize talents.
I have seen so many xavi interviews where he called some average midfielders his heir, and how they possess 'barca DNA.'
Sure he has alot to learn, he just recently received his UEFA coaching license and I think he has been given the coaching role in his Saudi Arabian club. Let's see how it goes.
But bro, if you're going to feel that way about xavi based on what he said, how did you feel about Henry when he said he started learning how to play football under guardiola?
darkelf: Please expatiate further on this. I've seen many guys use it here. Thanks
If you are a student of cruyff, the most important part of your play is your ability to interpret the space-time concept.
A football pitch covers a certain area. Coaches try as much as possible to cover this area using formations, in such a way that every player has a certain space within which to operate. A coach might get his formation right but a player who doesn't get this space concept will always leave alot of space for opponents to exploit.
That is where xavi and his knowledge of space comes in. Xavi does the cruyff turn alot not because he enjoys turninoninown but because he knows that as soon as he makes that turn, he has succeeded in drawing two or three midfielders out of the space they are naturally supposed to occupy and he exploits this opening perfectly with his pin point passes. If you watch that video I quoted, every time xavi controls the ball, he controls into space. When he dribbles, he does so to create space.
About time, this has to do with when a player arrives into space and when the ball reaches that player. It Is not enough to create space, you have to get the ball into that space at just the right time else the opponent is going to block the space. Xavi knows exactly when to release the pass. That is his time sense.
First you create space, then you get the ball into that space at the right time. That is the space-time concept in football.
If this argument is about who the better footballer is, it is clearly dinho. His talent level was off the charts.
If however, it is about who understands the game more, then it is xavi all day everyday. xavi's understanding of the game is second to none. His utilization of the concept of time and space was a delight to watch.
Let me put it this way. If xavi and ronaldinho where to go into coaching, who do you think would make the better coach? Xavi is guardiola level brilliant
BascoVanVeli: Xavi was not better than Yaya Toure IMO and he definitely not on Ronaldinho's level. Roni was must watch TV he gave us the best of both worlds, trophies and entertainment
Xavi is in the conversation for the greatest midfielder of all time. Yaya toure? Lol
Why do different sites have different number of episodes for Vis a vis?
The index site you gave had 16 episodes and I downloaded 3 episodes from there before it was blocked. Then I switched to the 2nd site and noticed there were only 13 episodes there. Plus after downloading, i noticed that the subtitle track i've been downloading doesn't go with it.
TheGoodJoe: You are not getting my point. Look at Balogun. The one game convinced people that his lack of game time did not diminish his quality.
It is not about Rohr’s decision. That was already made. I am talking of preventing a public critic of him making the wrong decision. As it stands, no major cryout. If Nacho had pulled a stunner and Rohr still dropped him, there would have been some noises.
That I think was why Rohr avoided playing Nacho in the friendly.
This is not about dropping Nacho or not. Rohr already made his decision.
Balogun wasn't selected because of his performance in the Zimbabwe game, balogun was selected - to borrow lexicons from kommekn - because of his consistent top level performance for the super eagles over the course of months. I can tell you for free that it would have taken a blunder the size of a nuclear explosion from balogun in that game to make Rohr even consider dropping him. The fans didn't need convincing either, those that know him know the difficulty he faced in his final season at Mainz and how it did not affect his performance. They also know he is currently our best defender and didn't draw that conclusion from a single game.
Contrast that to iheanacho who has been poor for SE since world cup and poor for Leicester the whole of last season. It was simply a risk not worth taking. Hope the boy bounces back though.
TheGoodJoe: That is what I am saying. Rohr already had his mind made up and his team selection ready. With giving Nacho game time and him pulling a good performance would have created confusion.
Playing Balogun took place because Rohr already made up his mind to take him to Egypt. If Balogun was not on the list and he pulled the kind of performance he did that night, tongues would have wagged.
Finito.
we've agreed on the bolded a long time ago na bros
I'm telling you that trusting on a much larger sample size (a full season) to make his decision instead of 1 game (as you are positing) was the best move by Rorh.
TheGoodJoe: But fans can understand that a striker will not be stellar in such system and does not deserve to shoulder much blame because of limited chances.
Also, we should be bigger than being scared of South Africa to ruin our season to thus outplay them and still win. Docking our tails is sheer cowardice.
You're absolutely having these discussions mixed up.
TheGoodJoe: Last thing Rohr needed was Iheanacho having a good display and giving him a selection headache. Rohr already made up his mind those he was taking and Nacho was not on his list. A brilliant performance from Nacho would have people questioning his decision to drop Nacho.
Sincerely yours, TheGoodJoe
I replied to this comment of yours. 1 game can be deceitful. Iheanacho is going through a massive slump in confidence, it takes more than just a game to erase that. Yes he might have a stellar performance that makes you think all is back to normal, but that doubt he now has in his ability will still creep in over the next couple of games.
It will take a string of consistently good performances to completely erase any such doubts. So yes, Rohr is absolutely right to drop him. And you would see this too if you weren't so blinded by your "love" for the boy.
TheGoodJoe: Last thing Rohr needed was Iheanacho having a good display and giving him a selection headache. Rohr already made up his mind those he was taking and Nacho was not on his list. A brilliant performance from Nacho would have people questioning his decision to drop Nacho.
Sincerely yours, TheGoodJoe
True as this is, it isn't particularly a wrong choice by Rohr. You cannot completely override a horrible season with a 90minutes good performance, it doesn't happen anywhere in the world.
1 game is absolutely too small a sample size to make any meaningful decision from, that's why even scouts monitor a player for months before deciding if he is good or not.
edi287: MANU GARBA: IHEANACHO DOESN’T EVEN CALL TO SAY HI
2 Comments / COLUMN, INTERVIEWS / By Solace Chukwu / June 10, 2019 / Africa Cup of Nations, Kelechi Iheanacho, Manu Garba, nigeria
There is a good argument to be made that, over the last decade, there is no more influential Nigerian coach than Manu Garba.
His name entered the mainstream consciousness in 2013 when he led the national under-17 team, the Golden Eaglets, to victory at the Under-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Before that, he was a part of the coaching crew for the previous success at that level, as an assistant to the late Yemi Tella back in 2007.
That is not, however, an achievement that is particularly unique. Nigeria is historically the most successful country in the world at that age group, and the likes of Fanny Amun and the late Paul Hamilton have also led sides with considerable talent but questionable eligibility to success.
What sets Garba apart, besides recency bias, is the style with which his side beguiled the world, and the sheer output of his group of youngsters. A free-scoring, counter-attacking style saw the team plunder 3.25 goals per game over the course of the competition, a staggering number considering football’s fundamentally low-scoring nature.
Understandably, Garba evinces a great degree of pride at having defied one of football’s fundamental truisms, and in his discussion he gravitates time and again to that 2013 side. So what made them so special, so cohesive, so irresistible as an attacking force?
“That team had an abundance of talent, but not only was the squad talented, we had ample time to stay with the players,” he says.
“Honestly, we had the opportunity to teach them all that you need to teach a player in terms of playing and performing at the highest level. To be fit technically, tactically, physically, psychologically and mentally.
“So we knew what every player could do at any moment. In fact, even in that team, you could close your eyes, pick a starting 11, and everybody would function very well, because there was a synergy. They were used to each other. The team was just like a family.”
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“…just like a family.”
The base though, the platform on which it was all built, was talent. The ubiquity of natural footballing ability in Nigeria is now almost anecdotal, but it is easy enough to understand when one considers the mostly unrivalled popularity that the sport enjoys in a country of over 100 million people.
That fact has not always translated perfectly though, as the recent outing of the national under-20 team at the World Cup in Poland attests. However, in terms of identifying and harnessing the talent pool, Garba stands out: both in terms of quality and quantity.
This eye for talent in its primal state, along with his emphasis on creating the right mental and physical environment for his players – for instance, he talks up the underrated benefit of a proper night’s rest both as a key part of player performance and as an excuse to restrict the use of mobile devices – is what has defined a successful coaching career to date.
A midfielder in his playing days, he captained El Kanemi Football Club for over half a decade, winning back-to-back FA Cup (then known as the Challenge Cup) titles in 1991 and 1992, and losing out to Egyptian giants Al Ahly in the semi-final of the old CAF Cup Winners Cup with the Maiduguri side. He describes himself as having been “naturally gifted with an abundance of technique”, and while it is not beyond the realm of possibility that this assessment is slightly massaged, it has certainly informed his preference when it comes to talent identification.
“What I look for in a player is technical ability: if the player is able to control the ball very well, can pass very well. Technique for me is paramount.
“After technique, a little bit of awareness of what to do in particular situations. That too is very important, because they say a good player is oriented all over, including his movement with or without the ball. Even at such young ages, I try to find such players.”
It is that technical excellence, as well as lucidity in decision-making, that so defined his 2013 team, and made them lethal on the break. Set up in a 4-3-3 shape, and with Garba encouraging expressionism and near-total positional freedom, that Nigeria side tore through opponents, scoring 15 goals over four matches against Mexico and Sweden, the competition’s next best teams.
The front three comprised, first, Isaac Success and then Liverpool loanee Taiwo Awoniyi, lightning-quick forward Musa Yahaya – Garba insists he was the best player in that entire tournament, and is “surprised” at the lack of progression of a player with potential to be “one of the best players all over the world” – and a certain Kelechi Iheanacho, whose exclusion from Nigeria’s final squad to this month’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has cause a stir.
The Leicester City forward has struggled to find his feet in the Premier League after an initial promising start at Manchester City. In the season just concluded, Iheanacho played barely over a thousand minutes in all competitions for the Foxes, scoring twice; in March, he was dropped from the national team after coach Gernot Rohr expressed concern over his focus and mentality. His inclusion in the provisional AFCON squad was widely considered a last chance to win back his place in the team.
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Iheanacho has struggled to find his feet at Leicester
It is a long way to fall for a player who won the Golden Ball in 2013, and on whom the hopes of a nation had come to rest. It also means that, of the players who passed through Garba’s hands, only Wilfred Ndidi, Francis Uzoho and Moses Simon will be in Egypt.
While the 53-year-old admits it is his “personal joy” to see those players in the final squad, he is rueful about Iheanacho’s promise, which now appears to be ebbing away: he has been “watching from a distance” and directs some of the blame toward the player’s handlers.
“I don’t know whether it has to do with personal problems, psychological problems, or lack of adaptation with the players he plays with.
“We expect their managers to be monitoring their performances and their way of life too, which is very paramount. Even when they’re not at their clubs, even on holidays, they are supposed to be monitoring what their players are doing. But unfortunately most of such managers are just after the money.”
While he is wary of making any definitive judgements on a player who he admits “doesn’t even call to say hi” – the revelation, while devoid of rancour, is tinged with disappointment – he makes some pointed observations about African players in general, and why they fail to fulfil their potential.
“One of the greatest problems is that most African players don’t know how to manage success. The moment a poor boy from a poor family background begins to earn big money, some of them forget the career entirely that brought them into such fame. They lose focus and begin to buy expensive cars, and living expensively instead of concentrating on the game.”
This inability to manage success, in his mind, is down to a deficit in education.
Nigeria has a literacy level under 60 percent, and a lot of its most talented footballers through the years have sprouted in underprivileged areas and the inner cities. With footballers earning increasingly mouth-watering pay packages, that image of success sees a lot of them opt out of school in favour of pursuing a full-time career in football.
Garba, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri who paid his way through school by playing in and earning prize money from sub-regional football tournaments, is acutely aware of his responsibility to steer his young players toward education.
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“Education is a great bane to African players, because most of them lack the educational background to take care of themselves personally. So, (a combination of) education, getting huge money suddenly and then failing to manage that success are some of the causes of why African players cannot make it great.
“I tell some of my players that, for us, even when we were playing, we didn’t leave school.
“Life after football is very important. Even apart from regular school, there are some of these schools that they can employ teachers to come and teach them (privately), or part-time. Earn a certificate somewhere. At least they will be able to communicate very well, to know they dos and don’ts wherever they go. This will help to enhance their life after football.”
His passion in this direction is clear, especially when he speaks of his children’s academic achievements, eyes agleam, and he remains an avid learner himself. He holds a CAF A Licence, and admits he has picked up “one or two things in brainstorming sessions with colleagues”, as well as by using coaching resources available on the internet.
While he acknowledges that talent identification is not an exact science – “Players come in different generations,” he says – his desire to find and groom the best continues to burn brightly, even as he prepares another crop for the 2019 Under-17 World Cup in Brazil.
Source - thesupersub
Just knew it was a solace chukwu article. Hard to see a Nigerian sport journo with such attention to detail. Solace is in a class of his own.
First off, congrats to everyone who got a success mail. And to those who didn't, please know that you did not fail, you can always use this experience in your future applications.
So I got the success mail but have this little problem. We were asked to come with our documents to the assessment centre, amongst which was the NYSC discharge cert. I'm a serving corps member that is due for passing out early next month so I do not have a discharge certificate yet. Has anybody ever been in this kind of situation with PwC? If so, did they allow you take the test without discharge certificate?
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