Patience, Positional Play and the Future of Football Tactics
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Martin Rafelt to explore the idea of patience as a category within football, particularly in relation to positional play - before then digging deeper into where football tactics is right now.
What is positional play?
Exploring the contradiction between “winning mentality” and “positional play”.
How can impatience be bad for teams who rely on intense counter-pressing and direct attacking?
Is there an approach that is perhaps riskier, but has better output overall and is quicker and less of a test of patience?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. I am John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman. Mike, how you doing? |
| 0:16.1 | It's good to be back, John. excited to dive into this week's episode. |
| 0:19.8 | Yep, me too because I'm very excited about this week's episode. Yep, me too, because I'm very excited about |
| 0:22.3 | this week's episode because I was lucky enough to have an hour-long conversation with a German |
| 0:26.8 | tactical expert, Martin Raffelt, who is one of the spiel for Laguerung set. We had a long |
| 0:32.6 | conversation about the concept of patience in football tactics, which I think is a very interesting topic on the |
| 0:38.8 | basis of a series of tweets that Martin put out. Mike, you've just listened to the conversation. |
| 0:43.8 | What did you make of it? Well, I don't know about you, John, but in general, I'm not really a patient |
| 0:48.8 | person, but Martin settled me down a bit and really helped me see the balance of playing with patience and playing |
| 0:55.4 | with a bit of risk, you know, specifically the role of Joshua Kimick at Byron. |
| 1:00.3 | And for me, the biggest takeaway from this episode is to always remember that football |
| 1:05.0 | is a game, right? |
| 1:05.9 | There are always two sides to these conversations. |
| 1:09.1 | Both sides are trying to win. |
| 1:10.6 | And it's really not always a |
| 1:12.2 | case of doing X gets you a result of Y. Yeah, and it's a really fun conversation because I think |
| 1:17.6 | it just breaks down a lot of what's going on in modern tactical theory and where things might |
| 1:22.7 | go next as well. So as always, I will say the listeners don don't want to hear Oz speaking, and they want to |
| 1:27.8 | hear our guest speaking. So let's go over and listen to what Martin Raffelt has to say about |
| 1:32.3 | patience and positional play. |
| 1:42.7 | Martin Raffelt, thank you so much for coming on today. It's great to have you on the podcast, not before time. It's, yeah, we should have had you on much earlier, but thank you so much for coming on today. Thanks for the invitation. Happy to be here. I think the best place for us to start is to let our listeners know a little bit about you, a bit about your background and what it is that you're up to. So, yeah, can you tell us how it is that you ended up covering football tactics and your experience of the game itself? |
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