Why throw-ins are more important than you think (with Thomas Gronnemark)
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Thomas Gronnemark to trace his career trajectory and get a better understanding of the role of throw ins within the modern game.
Where did his focus on throw ins come from?
How did he end up working with Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool?
What does a training session look like?
Where are teams lacking the most in terms of their approach to throw ins?
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. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as I |
| 0:12.1 | often am by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman. Mike, how's it going? |
| 0:16.1 | I'm doing good, John. excited for you to tease today's guest. |
| 0:19.3 | Yes, because today's guest is talking about a topic |
| 0:21.7 | that most people might not find that interesting, but I think after the hour that we spent |
| 0:26.5 | talking to Thomas Grunnamar, they will be really, really excited to start watching throw-ins, |
| 0:31.5 | which is our topic today. Might, you've just listened to that conversation. What did you make of it? |
| 0:34.9 | I mean, going into the conversation, I wasn't sure |
| 0:37.9 | what to expect and coming out of it. I feel like I know so much more about throw-ins and I guess |
| 0:43.9 | the strategy behind it, because Thomas was even talking about how, you know, there are certain things, |
| 0:50.6 | whether you're doing a soft touch on a throw-in or certain movements. It's all, |
| 0:54.7 | it's all very detailed. And I thought that was fantastic. And I think for the Tifa |
| 1:00.3 | football podcast audience, this is right in their wheelhouse. Yeah, and Thomas obviously became |
| 1:04.7 | well-known because he started working with Yergan Klops Liverpool and was able to turn |
| 1:08.7 | around their production from throw-ins really quite |
| 1:11.6 | impressively. So lots of exciting stories in there as well about his time at Liverpool. So we can |
| 1:17.1 | only recommend this conversation. It's a really fun conversation. I think the best thing for us to do |
| 1:20.7 | is just jump straight in. Thomas, it's great to have you on the podcast today. Thank you so much for coming on. |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah, you are absolutely welcome. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah, good stuff. Well, let's start at the very beginning, just to give a little bit of context to our listeners who may not know about you. So tell us a little bit about how you ended up becoming a throwing coach, how you |
| 1:45.5 | developed that focus on throwings in particular. Yeah, you'll get the really short version here, |
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