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.
Episodes
199 episodes
#199 Potentiality, not talent: why the forest matters more than the trees
You are eleven years old. You love football. This game is yours. Then a piece of paper somewhere, a meeting you were never in, and a word gets attached to your name. Or doesn't.That word is talent. We have used it for decades like a flas...
#198 Culture as a methodology
Culture, in the language of the Aboriginal researcher Tyson Yunkaporta's people, has no direct word. Instead, they use a phrase that roughly translates as "being like our place." That is the idea this episode sits with: not culture as the backd...
#197 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Rodrigo Picchioni – data, scouting, and what we can't measure
Data scouting. One of the most intriguing and fast-developing corners of professional football. Most people have seen a heat map. Very few know what a Lead Data Scout actually does on a Tuesday afternoon, or what the method can genuinely explai...
#196 Game models & Ecological dynamics
Game models in football are discussed constantly. Most coaches have strong opinions about them, but fewer can describe their own model with depth — or stop to ask where the underlying thinking is actually leading them.In this episode: a ...
#195 Trained for one game, faced another: a France U21 case on representative practice
Representative practice is one of those ideas that sounds simple until a match shows you exactly where your training stopped being representative. France U21 against Estonia U21. Final score six to one, but the number that stayed was a specific...
#194 The metaphors football lives by
Metaphor is the lens through which we actually see the game. Call a player a computer and you start looking for software to upgrade. Call a team a puzzle and you start developing pieces to assemble. The metaphor decides, quietly, what counts as...
#193 Resonance: the foundation of skill?
Resonance starts as a simple idea from physics. Pluck a guitar string and the body of the instrument starts to vibrate with it. Two systems, coupled, moving together.James Gibson used the word as a synonym for attunement, to describe so...
#192 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Vicente Raja – radical embodiment and resonance
Welcome to the Progressão podcast.As Progressão now continues in English, we are revisiting some of our earlier Discussão conversations — episodes that have stayed with us and still feel highly relevant today.In this episode, we a...
#191 Representative design: does your training really reflect the game?
Welcome to the Progressão podcast.In this episode, we continue our journey from drills and games, through situations, and now into one of the key concepts of ecological dynamics: representative design.In football, training ...
#190 Beyond small-sided games: train the situation
Welcome to the Progressão podcast.In our previous episode, we questioned the common debate around drills versus games and explored whether this is the right way to understand training in football. This week, we take the discussion furthe...
#189 Drills vs games: a false debate?
Welcome to the Progressão podcast.In this episode, we take on one of the most common debates in football coaching:drills versus games.Should players first learn technique through repetition, and then apply it in the ...
#188 Game intelligence: back to nature
Welcome to the Progressão podcast.In Episode 187, we opened the discussion around game intelligence by revisiting the more traditional definitions of the concept — a view where game intelligence is often treated as a separate co...
#187 Game intelligence
Welcome to the Progressão podcast.This week, we open a discussion around one of the most used, and perhaps least clearly understood, concepts in football: game intelligence.What do we actually mean when we say that a player has gr...
#186 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Jarkko Tuomisto – skill, groove, and the game
Welcome to Discussão, our monthly episode where we explore skill, learning, and human performance with leading voices from sport, science, and beyond.In this episode, we are joined by Jarkko Tuomisto, a top goalkeeper coach...
#185 Pelada: naked football environments
In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we continue our exploration of learning environments by turning to something simple, yet powerful: pelada.Pelada is informal football that is played in streets, beaches, backyards, wherev...
#184 Environment and culture in enskilment
In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we continue our discussion on enskilment. This time we focus on the role of environment and culture in becoming skilful.What kind of environments do players grow in?And how do those e...
#183 Teaching and learning in enskilment
In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we continue our exploration of enskilment and turn our focus toward what this perspective means for teaching and learning.In the previous episode, we introduced enskilment as a way...
#182 Enskilment: growing into skill
In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we begin a new series on becoming skilful in football and in human life.We explore the concept of enskilment, developed especially by anthropologist Tim Ingold and rooted in James Gibson’...
#181 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Duarte Araújo – ecological dynamics and skill learning in football
Welcome to Progressão.As Progressão now continues fully in English, we are revisiting some of our earlier Discussão Mundo conversations — episodes that were especially meaningful, widely listened to, and that still feel highly relevant ...
#180 Football as a complex phenomenon: sub-groups and local coordination
In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we continue our exploration of football as a complex phenomenon, focusing on sub-groups and local coordination.Beyond the game and team levels, football performance also emerges wi...
#179 Football as a complex phenomenon: game logic and team dynamics
In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we continue our exploration of football as a complex phenomenon, focusing on the internal logic of the game and how this logic shapes team-level dynamics.Football is often d...
#178 Football as a complex phenomenon: game scales
Welcome to the Progressão podcast.Today’s episode starts our discussion on football as a complex phenomenon. This time, we focus especially on the different levels, or scales, of the game.Football is often ana...
#177 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Niklas Moisander – build up and relationist football
Discussão Mundo RevisitedBefore we begin, a short note on why we’re sharing this episode again.As Progressão now continues fully in English, we also want to revisit and republish some of our earlier Discussão Mundo e...
#176 Too much technique? Generic forcing in football
What happens when players become highly technical, but less effective in the game?In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we introduce generic forcing, a concept we developed to describe behaviour where players try to impose re...
#175 Skill in football: a player- and group-level phenomenon
In this episode of the Progressão podcast, we continue our discussion on skill in football. While skill is often understood as an individual quality — something that belongs to a single player — this episode explores skill from a wider p...