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The New York Times and The Athletic published an article on the art of scanning in football, featuring excerpts from a conversation with Be Your Best CEO, Andreas Olsen.
The piece, written by Stuart James, includes details on:
- How Frank Lampard was in the “top percentile” at scanning
- Plus, how Lampard tried to develop this skill with Amadou Onana whilst Everton manager
- Why professional and academy footballers and clubs are turning to virtual reality, and Be Your Best specially, to help with their scanning behaviour
- Geir Jordet 's findings and insights from his research dating back to 1997
- Lionel Messi’s use micro-scanning and walking to gain advantages
- Why Xavi was nicknamed “The girl from The Exorcist”
- Examples of how modern players do and don’t scan and the differing outcomes
- Liverpool’s 13-year-old academy expert, Rafferty Bolshaw
- Declan Rice sharing how Mikel Arteta is constantly reminding his players to ‘check your shoulder’ and how Rice believes “In the Premier League now, it’s so important. If you’re not scanning, you’ve got no chance.”
- A Zinedine Zidane movie showcased his scanning brilliance
- How players, such as Real Madrid’s Aurelien Tchouameni, are “pre-living games” - like he did last season when the French midfielders was asked to fill in at centre-back
- A study of the 2020 European Championship showed that 38% of the 133 open-play goals conceded at that tournament were down to either a closed-body position or a lack of scanning
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