Taaniel Usta
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Watching the Striker Beyond the Label
As a journalist, I have always watched matches looking for stories. Scouting asks for something slightly different.
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Have the Ball, We’ll Keep the Box: How World Cup Underdogs Are Frustrating the Favourites
World Cup underdogs seem to be employing a similar system against their opponents and it looks like it’s working. Here’s the case for Paraguay vs Germany.
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Argentina’s Messi Dependency: How the world champions became a one-man finishing attack
Lionel Messi has broken the World Cup scoring record, scored every Argentina goal of this tournament, and arrived in North America in blistering form. But the concentration of responsibility around him, though, is harder to ignore.
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Is FIFA turning football into a four-quarter game?
A new kind of stoppage in play has become the centre of speculation and debate. Here’s what I found out about it…
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Why Ajax Are Buying Experience Again
For years, Ajax recruitment had a familiar rhythm: Find the next high-upside teenager or emerging talent, give him a clear role in an aggressive, recognisable first team, let Europe advertise him, sell at the right moment, then start again. But Ajax’s recent recruitment points to a different reality.