Progressão

Progressão is a book, a podcast, and a long-term thinking project focused on football, learning, and skilful human behaviour. Our work approaches football from a complex, holistic, and ecological perspective, where players and all football actors are understood as living beings always in correspondence with their environment.

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  #205 Emotion is not noise: affective learning design in football

  Aug 17, 202613 min

  A training session can be tactically representative with right distances, pressure, opponent behaviours, and still be missing something important. The feeling in the stomach before a decisive pass. The exhaustion of a fifth game in two weeks. The awareness that this moment might decide qualification. That ingredient has a name in the ecological dynamics literature: affect. And the conceptual framework related to it is called Affective Learning Design. Today we walk through the 2015 paper by Headrick, Renshaw, Davids, Pinder, and Araújo that framed this idea, and what it means for how we build sessions. In this episode: the difference between cold cognition and hot cognition, and why removing emotion from training doesn't clean it up but thins it out. Why emotion sharpens perception and strengthens memory, and what that means for which skills players carry into the game. The two principles of Affective Learning Design, and how to use them. Practical moves: vignettes, stakes, scrutiny, individualisation. Studies from dart throwing, police handgun training, basketball free throws, gymnastics and football, all pointing the same direction. Emotion is not noise. It is a constraint that shapes what a player perceives, decides and does. Time to design for it. Further reading Headrick, J., Renshaw, I., Davids, K., Pinder, R.A. & Araújo, D. (2015). The dynamics of expertise acquisition in sport: The role of affective learning design . Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 16(1), 83–90. The Progressão book is on its way in English — more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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  #204 Manage the madness: three futsal principles football should steal

  Aug 10, 202610 min

  Futsal is football's close cousin. Similar game logic, smaller space, less forgiveness. A bad angle shows up immediately, a lazy arrival is a shot on your own net. That density has forced futsal coaches to develop sharper language for certain moments than football coaches need to. Today we are going on a raid, walking into the futsal world to borrow three principles, the language and intentions that carry them, and bring them back to the football pitch. In this episode: why "manage the madness" is a great instruction and intention for a duel. What it actually means to "arrive with the ball", and why getting that timing right is a perceptual skill we often don't train. And "be electric" — the defender who keeps moving in small deceptive ways at set pieces, giving the deliverer conflicting information rather than being the statue the attacker is hoping for. All of the principles describe a way of being in the moment: alive, reading, adjusting. Steal them. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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  #203 In the storm and the silence: Turner, Pärt, and football as art

  Aug 3, 202616 min

  Two artists. One tied himself to the mast of a ship in a real storm because painting storms from the shore was no longer enough. The other went silent for years — already recognised, already capable — because the music he was making was not yet the music that was truly his. One found the storm from the inside. The other found the silence, and from it, a new form the whole world now listens to. Today's episode is a slower one. We are sitting with J.M.W. Turner, the English painter, and Arvo Pärt, the Estonian composer, and thinking about what they might have to say to football. How they felt the world, and what we could learn from them. In this episode: what Turner's storm paintings — before and after he sailed into a real storm — tell us about the difference between observing the game and being inside it. Why the other Turner lesson is knowing when to put the brush down. Pärt's tintinnabuli, two voices that become one sound, and what it means for a small football nation to stop copying the big ones and find its own two notes. And why the crisis, the silence, the emptiness before new form arrives, is not something to escape but something to trust. The storm. The silence.

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  #202 Predictability is the enemy

  Jul 27, 202613 min

  There is a debate that runs through football coaching like a fault line. On one side: all training should be game-based. On the other: players need drills with a lot of repetition. The two camps argue past each other, as if the choice is binary. It isn't. And a volleyball study can help us understand why. Today we walk through a 2023 paper by Paulo Caldeira and colleagues — research that sits close to the intellectual home of this podcast, with Duarte Araújo and Keith Davids among the authors. The setting is volleyball, but the implications belong to anyone who has thought about representativeness in their training. The study took skilled young players and gave both groups the same three attack options against the same three block configurations. Same possibilities, same reps. One difference only: one group knew in advance what was coming, the other had to read and decide in the moment. That single variable, pre-arranged versus emergent decision-making, changed everything. The group that had to read the situation improved substantially more, and kept improving after the study ended. In this episode: what representative decision-making actually means, and why a decision is representative when it is made off the same online information the game provides. What functional movement variability is, and why the best performers don't repeat one perfect technique but find slightly different solutions each time. Also, a football example of how to constrain the option space without losing the decision. Further reading Caldeira, P., Paulo, A., Veloso, A., Infante, J., Davids, K. & Araújo, D. (2023). How functional movement variability facilitates successful skill adaptation during the volleyball attack . International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. The Progressão book is being translated into English — more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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  #201 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Roger "Ruxi" Bonet – Spain, the World Cup, and the team as skill

  Jul 20, 20261h 7m

  Spain just won the World Cup. A highly coordinated team that played the movement, the relation, the shared language of a group that had been feeling the game the same way since they were children. To make sense of that, we called someone who has lived football from the inside — as a player across several continents, as a psychologist, as a coach, and as the founder of The Game Changer, a global football analysis community now active in over 20 countries. Roger "Ruxi" Bonet has also written the book Play with Purpose, and holds a UEFA Pro licence. In this episode: Spain's World Cup through the eyes of a person who watches the game analytically. What the tournament revealed about collective intelligence, and why the absence of a star scorer was not a weakness but the whole point. A case study of the final, Spain versus Argentina, as two completely different answers to the question of what football skill is and where it comes from. The rondo, the potrero, the street; whether you can see a player's upbringing in the way they move. And what Ruxi's years of playing in different countries taught him about football culture as a shaping force. The Progressão book is on its way in English — more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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