Episode 9: Communication & CryptoTactics
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is more than just watching football, it's a way of life.
What we've got here is failure to communicate. The codes are a puzzle game, just like any other game.
We're back in the third circle, listeners. Here we are. It's been a while. It's been too long. I've been in Slovenia. That was interesting. There was some aborted club takeovers. There was some financial irregularities. There was tactical intrigue. So that was an episode that maybe we'll get into in the future, but not today, listeners. I'm joined... As usual, by the one, the only, Martin Raphael. It's been a while, Martin. Anything to report? How are you?
I'm still a little bit sick, but hopefully not so much that it affects my voice too much. I feel well overall. Otherwise, I'm fine. I just finished the first half of the season in the U19 Bundesliga with Preussenmünster. It was a really nice experience. I had some really good development throughout the months. Looking forward to talk football with you again.
I've missed it, Martin. I've missed these discussions. And I've been looking forward in particular to this topic. I don't know if it even is can reduce it right to one topic. There's various ideas and concepts floating around what we the things that we've been discussing behind the scenes and we've we've thought. for a while now that it would be fun to talk about the idea of communication. And that is a very, very broad topic in football. And I think in today's episode, we're going to hopefully find some unusual, some interesting ways to approach the topic of communication. And to kick off, to give us some kind of reference point that we can attack this episode from, I'm going to read a quote from our favorite Dutch coaching educator, Mr. Raymond Verheyen.
We've mentioned Verheyen before on the episode and maybe we'll mention him again. And for those who aren't familiar, Verheyen is a very influential coach educator. You could probably make a case for him being like the most well-known or high-profile independent coach educator, you know, not involved necessarily with You know, national federations, etc. He's got his own thing going on, his own organization. But many of the coaches that are listening to this will be familiar with Ryan's work. Many will be fans of Ryan's work. Many will have taken part in his work. his conferences, right, or read from his books, which you can find in the offices of many clubs around the world, I'm sure. And why Verheyen is interesting to reference here is, well, I'll just read the quote and then we can get going.
So this is from Verheyen's website, FC Evolution, from an article there. on football tactics. And I'm just going to read the quote and then we can see what we think. Okay, so here's the quote. Here's Verheyen. In football, the nonverbal communication between players and their surroundings is of the highest order. By training with each other every day, players learn to understand each other increasingly better. After a while, players are capable of reading each other's body language. They already know what their teammates want from them. There is less miscommunication, and the players will become less predictable for the opponent. When players are verbally communicating with each other, the opponents can hear what they say to each other.
However, when the communication between teammates gradually shifts from verbal to non-verbal, it will be increasingly harder for the opponent to predict what will happen next. Okay, so that's Verheyen on communication. starting premise of Ryan that communication or specifically nonverbal communication is of the highest order in football. This is a very important point. This is a serious point. The highest order, that's the most important thing, right? So Ryan here is saying that communication is, could we say, the basis for tactical systems in football? Would that be something that you would agree with, Martin?
I mean, I just wanted to jump in and say that I think in his model, tactics is not really a term that he uses, but tactics is a part of communication, really.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–17:03
2
What is Raymond Verheyen’s view on nonverbal communication in football?
17:03–50:01
3
How does shared team intention speed up player communication on the pitch?
50:01–1:32:23
4
Why can clarity in attacking patterns make teams predictable to defenses?
1:32:23–1:40:06