Welcome, everybody to Soccer one-O-1. My name is Taylor Rockwell, joining me to talk about some terms that maybe seem straightforward,

but that might need a little deeper analysis, is Mr. Graham Ruthven.

Hello, Graham.

Hello, Taylor.

How are you?

I am doing well, man.

I always enjoy our soccer 101 conversations.

We tend to try to look at a term or concept or player or idea, whatever it may be, each week,

that either seems straightforward

and then needs a little bit of explanation or is not straightforward and requires more explanation.

This episode is inspired by me explaining what Brighton were doing and how they were tearing

apart Manchester United to my wife.

And I kept saying, he's looking to find space.

And she was like, I don't understand most of that sentence. And so it was a good reminder that some, exactly, exactly, exactly. Exactly. That's, that's maybe sometimes terms that I think are pretty common, um, could be just not so common. Uh, another good example of that. I coach an adult team, a men's team. And, uh, like, okay, you've got to show them left or show them right. And there's always a moment of like, why are we showing them? Anything? I don't understand when you're defending and you're trying to push a player one way or the other. So little terms like that, which are ubiquitous in soccer and soccer conversations, maybe sometimes worth discussing out in a little more detail. One to

start us off, Graham, is one that so sort of throws me pretty regularly is ball recovery. What is

a recovery exactly? Because I always think of it as like, oh, he slid in and won the ball and then came

up with it at his feet and dribbled away. And it's not that, but it's not quite that either.

Yeah, and it's not a painful medical

procedure either thankfully of all recovery but this this is a term this is a term that should

the way we laugh that hard but it did because i'm a child i was counting on on you being a child

to get a laugh at that um yeah a term that we use quite often and used quite often a lot,

it's used a lot in the modern game, the best way to define it.

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