#115 What is a ‘number 9’ and how has the position evolved?
Soccer 101
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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On this week's episode, we're looking at a position on the field that's made a comeback on the pitch, quite literally in most cases: The Number Nine. The center forward has long been a staple of the beautiful game, but how did it evolve, why did it's popularity wane, and why has it reemerged? We have answers to those and many other questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soccer 101, the podcast where we scratched the soccer riches you never knew you had. |
| 0:20.4 | Today, we're looking at a position on the field that's made a comeback in a big way, |
| 0:24.7 | quite literally in most cases, the number nine. |
| 0:27.7 | The centre forward has long been a staple of the beautiful game, |
| 0:30.2 | but how did it evolve? |
| 0:31.7 | Why did its popularity wane? |
| 0:33.6 | And why has it re-emerged? |
| 0:35.7 | My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today to talk all things number nine at Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello. |
| 0:41.8 | Graham Rusman, hello. |
| 0:43.1 | Hello, Ryan Bailey. |
| 0:44.2 | Hi, Joe Lowry. |
| 0:45.4 | Ahoy. |
| 0:46.4 | Ahoy, hoy. |
| 0:47.3 | Indeed. |
| 0:48.2 | To start things off, gents, quick question for me. |
| 0:50.6 | Have any of you ever played the number nine position in any meaningful way? Graham, |
| 0:55.6 | you seem like you are big enough to have done such a thing? I don't think I ever played number |
| 1:00.3 | nine. The weird thing is, when I played soccer as a teenager, I was quite short, actually. So I can |
| 1:07.9 | agree in my later teenage years, so I was a right back or a right midfielder, |
| 1:14.7 | pretty much anywhere on that right side. |
| 1:16.4 | But I don't think I ever played as a number nine. |
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