How can you rehearse something new?

Argentina build-up vertically #Banega #SalidaLavolpiana pic.twitter.com/EC5eC4eOqQ

— Lavolpismo (@salehruba199) June 22, 2016

 Listening and investigating and trying to find new ways of learning about the beautiful game, i end up catching key words that.. somehow does not seem right.

- Rehearse how you want to play, for example, is something that... conceptually is not wrong. You should practice the way you play. The behaviors you want to see in the game, should be in practice as well.

But then.. you listen to people saying that they should rehearse the movements so many times that it became automatic, like brushing your teeth. Something you do, without thinking about it...

And that is where something starts to "stink". The game, the game that is played now, and the game that will be played in the future, is about decisions. Conscience decisions. So... how can someone think about robotics when everything is being created?

And then... i stopped listening to the "how we want to play" and investigated "how do we get there" as in... what do they do in practice.

And all i saw, was rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal. How can you play aganist ghosts, and learn anything about the game? How could Argentina, in the video, learn that the best way to solve that problem would be to keep the ball inside, and play to the ones that were free... if they would rehearse all the plays the coach imagined, time and time again?

Many people have good ideas about the game. But less and less people know how to take those ideas to the pitch, and help the players to learn those ideas in a way that makes them create the ideas over and over again, without the coach having the ps4 controller on the sides.

Change the rules to save the game

During this Euro2016 and Copa America Centenario, we have been watching a lot of players and nations under perform.

There are many reasons for that. Its known that the time to practice and to properly engage in a game model is long, and it takes even more time when the ideas the National Team Coach has, are different from the ideas of the clubs.

Players get together from different places, and all of a sudden, they need to perform like they think as one.  It is really hard to achieve.

And it is much harder, when most of the time, instead of getting knew game principles, instead of adapting to the ideas of the national team, time is used to recovering players from fatigue and from long term injuries.

Everyone wants to see the best players play at their best. Everyone wants to see quality football, but is that really possible when during 10 months the best players and the best teams play every 3 days? The demand on players from the bigger clubs, that are in the last stages of every competition is huge, and something needs to be done to reduce that demand to try to keep the players in the best condition possible, for as much time as possible.

One o
f the rules that could help, would be to have 4, or even 5 subs during the game. Limit the amount of times a team could sub (for example, 2 times during the
second half) and would really help improving the show in a long term. Having fewer players play 90 minutes, would create the opportunity of more players showing their skills, and would raise the level of performance by having more players close to 100% of their ability for a longer period of time.

To have better quality in summer tournaments, players need to arrive at those competitions in better conditions.