Joel A. Adejola - BallerzBantz (Page 2)

Strategy

What Should We Expect from Head Coaches?

We argue that a head coach's decision to adopt an attacking style, despite their team's inability to effectively compete using such tactics, might reflect poorly on their talent ID.

Mechanics

Precision Play: Features of a Great Sho(o)t(er)

Some features of a great shot and great shooters

Scouting

What Can Scouts Learn from Crawling Plants?

How a hypothetical observation of crawling plants can help up develop and affirm scouting paradigms.

Scouting

Projections: Sheffield United's Anel Ahmedhodžić

Blitz report and projections on Sheffield United's Anel Ahmedhodzic

Scouting

Avoiding the Description Trap when Scouting (or Analyzing)

Public analysis tends to elevate description to the level of insight, occasionally veering into fiction. How avoid that pitfall?

Scouting

More Non-Trivial Scouting Cues

I share more non-trivial scouting cues: on set-pieces, why reputation matters for strikers, and young players who feature in dysfunctional teams.

A nighttime soccer match in progress at Rock Chalk Park with KU's Women Soccer Team in blue and the opposition in white.

Scouting

Non-Trivial Scouting Cues

I share some non-trivial scouting cues I've acquired over the past two years. Most, I learned from conversations and immersion. Few, I stumbled upon. Others, I inferred from adjacent domains – and have found them applicable here.

Analysis

What Can we Learn From Synergies?

Combining Xabi Alonso's reflections and earlier published words to highlight the importance of synergies in football – plus more data-points on the most important trait of a coach.