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The Taekcast

Ep. 97 - Zonal Marking w/ Michael Cox from The Athletic UK

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

News, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Sports News

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Davis Mattek is joined by the author of two best-selling soccer books (The Mixer and Zonal Marking) to discuss tactical shifts in soccer over the last 25 years, what a salary cap would do to the English Premier League, Pep Guardiola, Tactics Vs Talent and much more about the world of soccer. Purchase Zonal Marking: https://www.amazon.com/Zonal-Marking-Zidane-Making-Modern/dp/1568589336 www.patreon.com/taekcast SPONSORS: www.rotoexperts.com PROMO: MATTEK 10% OFF Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:10.1

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0:20.2

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0:44.3

Hello, everyone. Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Takecast.

0:45.7

My name is Davis-Matic.

0:48.1

You can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic.

0:56.9

In this episode of the show, I was delighted to be joined by Michael Cox from the Athletic, UK, and also the author of two of my absolute favorite books on the game of soccer, the mixer, which came out in 2017, and

1:03.6

the Zonal Marking book, which if you follow Michael on Twitter, you know, is his Twitter name,

1:09.0

at Zonal Marking. Michael is an incredibly accomplished author, you know, just one of the best journalists in the

1:17.3

game, in the game, the beautiful game. We call it soccer, they call it football, but I think

1:22.6

if you have any passing interest in the game at all, I think that you will really enjoy

1:27.3

this interview that we

1:28.3

have with Michael about his book, about the world game of soccer right now, and just a couple

1:33.9

interesting questions about how the game may tactically change over the next few years. And of course,

1:40.8

if you want to support the show, you can always leave a rating and review on iTunes that is very appreciated.

1:46.9

You can also subscribe to the show on Patreon, patreon.com slash takecast for bonus episodes and to support and keep the show going.

1:56.1

And of course, we are presented by rhodoexperts.com, the best fantasy football projections, rankings, and content that you will get anywhere on the internet, and you can get 10% off of that using the promo code, Matto, E-K.

2:10.0

And now let's get into the show.

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