Martin Raphael

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The 3rd Circle · Episode 9: Communication & CryptoTactics · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

I think you cannot cross.

And then suddenly your other leg comes and hits it behind your standing leg.

And I'm like, what the hell?

So this is just not something that you would defend because you would never expect it.

It's the same like a backheel pass.

Backheel passes are very effective because they are never defended.

Nobody expects them.

And it also changes the angle, right?

You basically, without taking a touch, you take a touch without taking a touch because you're putting the ball like two steps away from you, which also makes it look like you cannot cross in this moment because it's two steps away from you.

Then you make a step in front of the ball and then hits it like the next step is basically behind your leg.

So it also changes the angle, it changes the distance, it makes the defender think that you cannot put the cross in this moment, and that makes it effective.

It's harder to do than most other types of crosses, so we would think learning this is not efficient, but I think there are not many things in football that are very efficient to learn that are not also quite...

And an interesting aspect is also that the more people can do something, the more probable it is that defenders will actually predict it.

So if everybody's doing these Rabona crosses now, at some point it's not going to be as effective anymore.

So what's always going to be useful is being able to do some things that nobody else can do.

They're the best team in the world, but you worked two months in Slovenia, so you know better.

People are more excited if they win and they...

revolutionize the game at the same time right so surely that surely that's better I remember Dortmund Dortmund in in the club years when when they were winning titles and also playing a like new branch of football and and also Barcelona at the same time like Guardiola's Barcelona made people so much more excited than the other Guardiola teams yeah 100% the titles were the same

I actually want to say it's not radical because it pinpoints to a degree why good players are good players still.

And even in these systems that demand clarity and such, the best players are those who deliver vagueness, if you want.

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