How to build a Game Model

How do you play medium high zonal 2-2-1 press? How do you break low block 1-2-2, aka “Erä’s cottage”? How do you start the build up from your defensive zone with a back triangle? People contact me often and ask different kind of...

Working backwards from the game

Again, not a long blog post. There has been some debate in social media about identifying a problem in a team’s game and the possible solutions for that problem. The last debate took wind from Mikael De Anna’s blog post about the...

Kompleksia, ei monimutkaista

“The outcome of any game is determined by the nature of the confrontation between two complex systems (two teams) and is characterized by the alternation of successive states of order and disorder, stability and instability, uniformity...

Unforced Error

"Iatrogenics is when a treatment causes more harm than benefit. As iatros means healer in Greek, the word means “caused by the healer” or “brought by the healer.”  Healer, in this sense, need not mean doctor, but anyone...