September 2023 Webinar

Football is experiencing an identity crisis, what happens when all football begins to look the same?

As Juanma Lillo has pointed out, the globalization of methodologies has resulted in homogenization of football. Many football authors, like Jamie Hamilton, have given this issue light with the emergence of terms of like ‘Relationism’ and teams like Fluminense and Malmo.

Chris Bentley, one of my mentors and current Mississippi Soccer Association Executive Director, and I attempted to better understand this problem in this discussion.

Chris and I have been following this problem for years, as we describe it, CUT AND PASTE.

Far too often, methods directly copied from one environment with a particular set of conditions and culture and applied to another environment with a different set of conditions and culture without ever stopping to think about the consequences.

We invite you relive our discussion to identify and tackle this problem together.

In this webinar, Chris and I will discussed the following:

• WHAT IS CULTURE?

• CULTURE: INPUT vs. OUTPUT

• UNIQUE EXPRESSIONS OF FOOTBALL

• DANGERS OF CUT AND PASTE

• PRO FOOTBALL vs. YOUTH FOOTBALL

• CLUBS THAT HAVE LOST THEIR WAY

• OUR BRAIN AND CULTURE

• PLAYING STYLES REQUIRES TRUST