#78 Everything you need to know about pressing: what it is, its many forms, how it evolved, and much more!
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In an homage to Daryl Grove's introductory explainer on pressing in episode 27, your intrepid podcasters take you on a longer journey through the topic: what does it mean, how do teams utilize it, who does it best, how has it evolved over time, what changes we might see in the future, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soccer 101, the podcast where we delve into and investigate a particular topic relating to that beautiful game we all love. |
| 0:18.4 | Today, we're looking at the idea of pressing in soccer. What does it mean? |
| 0:22.4 | When did it come into fashion among soccer tacticians? Who does it well? Who does it badly? |
| 0:27.2 | And why is that player called Christiana Ronaldo? And what does its future hold in the game? |
| 0:32.2 | My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:35.7 | Hey, buddy. How you doing? I'm doing very well, sir. |
| 0:38.9 | Joe Lowry, how are you? |
| 0:40.9 | I'm quite well, Ryan Bailey. |
| 0:43.1 | Oh, music to my ears, as is the dulcet tones of Graham Rutherland. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello, Ryan. |
| 0:47.9 | I fear this is the episode I'm going to be exposed as Steve Bruce calls himself |
| 0:52.3 | a tactically inept cabbage head |
| 0:54.4 | but we've got Joe |
| 0:55.8 | Tactical Mastermind Lowry with us today |
| 0:57.6 | so he'll keep us right. |
| 0:59.2 | So we've got a few ends of the tactical spectrum |
| 1:01.7 | the cabbage right up to whatever Joe is then. |
| 1:03.9 | I don't know what's at the other end of a cabbage spectrum |
| 1:07.9 | but it's Joe. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm not trying to think. |
| 1:11.3 | In like Eastern European foods, it would maybe be sausage? |
| 1:15.0 | That's a weird. |
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