Martin Raphael
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Martin Raphael’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like the best players are not those who are like just super, super clear in execution, but those who are difficult to read, like Iniesta, like Busquets, like you mentioned Schlotterbeck, like these type of guys.
And Guardiola said like the best things that Messi did were those that were super simple, but...
Messi is also coming from a game of that he always has two options open.
And then when you have two options open and you are very quick and precise in using these options, then when you take this one option that is not defended, it looks very simple, but it's not going to be that simple.
You only see the option that he takes.
You don't see the option that he could also have taken.
um and and and that's why i think every every great play not every great play but most great play even in very clear systems stem from uh ambiguity ambiguity the other aspect would be probably just like technical and physical superiority but uh yeah this is difficult this is not this is nothing that you can that you can teach
I guess you could make the argument that it's also a little bit about how did the numbers happen.
So if he plays a lot of... Let's say he has a good number of ball recoveries, and then you see that the ball recoveries come not from him being good in tackling, but it comes from just opponent...
happen to miss a lot there you could make this argument but i think it's it's probably not it's probably not correct to make this argument i think your reason is the more relevant one
Which means they have control, which means they can make late decisions, which means they are difficult to defend, which means they are effective in play.
Yeah, I think it's important that when we see good football that we don't copy a simplified version of it because we want to have a clear description of what this football makes good and then we want to copy it and I think we tend to copy the things that are good.
And that are very clear.
And we end up with a worse copy of what it was.
Because when you look at Barcelona, perhaps Barcelona, and that this is where all this positional play started.
And then you look back at the team and you look at the positional teams today, you see that they were better.
Like there are a lot of things that they did at Barcelona that these current positional play teams do not do.
So they are bad copies because we try to clarify things.
And this is like this, that we oversimplify things in our head when we try to do something that we see.
is a little bit of an important topic for me because I think many things that happen in football are a little bit like that.
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