A Podcast About Tactics

In Episode Twelve, we're joined by Lewis Ambrose (@LGAmbrose on Twitter) to talk about Borussia Dortmund and how playing in a league that is dominated by Bayern Munich impacts the club's tactics.

Lewis is an Arsenal fan who spends most of his time watching the Bundesliga, especially Borussia Dortmund, and who writes about English and German football with an analytical slant. Lewis works for OneFootball, writes for Arseblog and has ...

In Episode Eleven, we're joined by Carlon Carpenter (@CarlonCarpenter on Twitter) to talk about the role that tactics play in the life of a performance analyst.

Carlon is Tactical And Video Analyst at StatsBomb and also works with Bath City FC in the National League South as a performance analyst.

In the course of the episode, we talk about the way to connect the dots between tactical analysis and deliverables, and how to present t...

In Episode Ten, we're joined by Erik Elias (@erikelias_ on Twitter) to talk about Erik ten Hag's career as a player, as a manager, and about the future of his new club: Manchester United. 

Erik is a football scout from the Netherlands, now consulting a professional club in Europe. He also runs Between The Posts, a website about football tactics that publishes match reports about the top five leagues in Europe.

In the course of the ...

In Episode Nine, we're joined by Alex Collings (@alexfrco on Twitter) to talk about Olympique Lyonnais and the tactical impact of being a talent development club.

Alex is a scout for af recon, has written for Scouted Football and is 1/3rd of the Football Per 90 pod.

In the course of the episode, we talk about the history of Lyon, their place within a Ligue 1 that is tactically evolving, and the effect that being a talent producer c...

In Episode Eight, we're joined by Chris Summersell (@ChrisSummersell on Twitter) to talk about the challenges of instilling a tactical identity in a new team.

Chris is a UEFA B licensed coach who is about to start working within the women's system at Hibernian in Scotland. His coaching career has carried him through youth football working with Brighton & Hove Albion, preparing coaches to teach the FA Level One course, and more rece...

In Episode Seven, we're joined again by Tiago Estêvão (@TiagoEstv on Twitter) to finish off our conversation about the role tactics play in scouting.

Tiago is a Scouting and Recruitment Analyst at a Serie A club, he has the most encyclopaedic brain about footballers out of anyone else in the world, and he has the finest moustache in world football too.

In this episode, we divide our time in two: talking about scouting the attacking...

In Episode Six, we're joined by Ábel Mészáros (@BundesPL on Twitter) to talk about the tactical aspects of the most exciting title race in the top five European leagues: Serie A's title race. 

Ábel covers Serie A for the Hungarian TV channel Sport TV, he does consultancy work within the football industry, and he has previously covered the Bundesliga as well.

In the course of the episode, we talk about the context behind this season...

In Episode Five, we're joined by Om Arvind (@OmVAsports on Twitter) to talk about Real Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti, Zinedine Zidane and the role of tactics at the elite level.

Om is the editor of the Managing Madrid channel, the host of the Las Blancas podcast, he runs a Substack called Tactical Rant and he has written for various outlets such at Analysis Evolved, Analytics FC and the Woso Collective.

In the course of the episode, we t...

In Episode Four, we're joined by Jamie Hamilton (@stirling_j on Twitter) to talk all about his recent medium piece "Vanishing Point: Why Pep Guardiola is Football’s First Post-Modern Coach" and the place of philosophy in football tactics. 

Jamie is a UEFA A-licenced coach, he is working as a development academy coach in Scotland right now and he is also a football writer whose Medium blog can be found here.  

In the course of the ...

In Episode Three, we're joined by Tiago Estêvão (@TiagoEstv on Twitter) to talk all about the role tactics play in scouting.

Tiago is a Scouting and Recruitment Analyst at a Serie A club, he has the most encyclopaedic brain about footballers out of anyone else in the world, and he has the finest moustache in world football too.

In this episode, we talk about the importance of context, working to a game model, scouting players who ...

In the second episode of A Podcast About Tactics, we're joined by two guys who are Manchester United supporters, data analysts, two of the most beautiful men who appear on your Twitter timelines but also often personae non gratae on Manchester United Twitter: Kees van Hemmen (@HemmenKees) and Aaron Moniz (@amonizfootball).

During the course of our chat, we talked about what their tactical expectations were going into the Rangnick ...

At the beginning of a new tactics media outlet (this podcast...), where better to begin than in conversation with Constantin Eckner (@cc_eckner on Twitter).

Constantin started working as a freelance journalist in his teenage years, mostly covering football and politics. Over the course of his career, his work has appeared on the BBC, ESPN, DW, The Times, Eurosport, Deutschlandfunk and many more. He is now working as a multimedia ho...