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passevertical.bsky.social
i was not meant to be alone and without you who understand.
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Your friends @cambi3.bsky.social and @passevertical.bsky.social basking in the horror of that Kovačić cameo.

medium.com/p/09c72dccfaa3 first drop on medium! plan on using it for more personal musings and felt like this would be a good place to start. hope you enjoy it :)

kinda following up from what i said last week, i really believe in the universality of sensitivity as a concept. only those who have it and value it properly (through empathy and good ol’ pattern recognition) are able to see it in others — and in everything around them.

happy new year ceus azuis :)

and aesthetics vs effectiveness has always existed in football, that’s not my issue. what is egregious to me is the ahistorical nature of the many arguments i’ve read in disregard to aesthetics

idk, it’s intriguing how the sentiment over aesthetic appeal in playing styles has decayed in the last decade

merry christmas ceu azul people

lost the book on the plane but still catching gems

final week before the break from work is the hardest. my head is not here i swear

I wrote about Raphinha's movement against Dortmund. It was not always picked out by Barca's midfielders, but he was importantly picked out en route to Barca's first goal. theconventionalplaymaker.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/8...

i read all of these 3 excerpts, 3 nights in succession this week which led to more assuring epiphanies. pursuing knowledge through sheer passion is cool :D

if i’d put any weakness on Leão’s game it’d be the timing of his releases. it’s really hard to have pausa when carrying with so much pace anyways, but he often drives with his head down.

following up on my talk on slow wingers, david moyes speaking on technical and physical cloning feels vindicating, specially for attacking positions. this is very flagrant across the Red Bull model, and in a way, this (sadly) kinda falls into what we like to call good scouting too.

It‘s great to see more teams (Inter, Girona, Arsenal, Real Madrid) using longer horizontal and progressive dismarking movements.

also, enzo’s box crashing isn’t really news. it was prominent at Benfica in the first 3 months before the goals dried out. and he’s always gotten to great positions at CFC but never with as much luck as now. great moment.

another thing abt chelsea frm this week: it’s always to see what talented and resourceful footballers can do together, specially when lending mostly to ‘natural’ attacking balance amongst them.

still on the Sancho discourse i started on the other app, i honestly think that the sport never really moves past a certain kind of player. and even i got carried away with that conversation

no more “if i see it you see it too” :D

institutions worldwide are really testing the waters regarding how desensitized we are to outright evil. and i don’t think the answer is negative enough.

i found my tribe lol

the taste of defeat in football as an employee is genuinely so much worse lol

you have no idea of much life can change by listening to black women’s pain

artur jorge built a very interesting Braga side not so long ago, balanced towards the top end of the pitch. glad he did the same for Botafogo

there’s just not enough conversation on how inventive Leão is

just random off-the-dome thoughts as i read these two books at the same time as the machine rebrands for the next generation.

many cultural critics fail to identify the interception between patriarchy and capitalism when identifying the route for the narcissistic conditioning we receive as men

i’ve been using my club’s wyscout to get as much Palancas data I can, hope I come up with something useful

let me get ahead and refill the wine stock for tomorrow’s final

might also use this platform more to talk abt other things

Yet to catch up on last round but going on from discussion with @passevertical.bsky.social on needs-must attacking, looked at possession in the HNL this term based on game state. Dinamo the only team in the comp with 50+% of the ball while in winning positions, and even they relatively sit off. 📊