The World Cup brings together Tony Popovic’s Australia 🇦🇺 & Vincenzo Montella’s Türkiye 🇹🇷
Türkiye are playing in a World Cup for the first time since 2002. Head coach Vincenzo Montella played for Italy that year, while Tony Popovic represented Australia in the 2006 World Cup.
It’s Scotland’s first World Cup finals game in 28 years, and Haiti’s first in 52 🏴 🇭🇹
Can either make the knockout stage for the first time?
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One of the greatest managers in football history, Carlo Ancelotti, is ready to take charge of his first game at a World Cup as a head coach. His Brazil team face Mohamed Ouahbi’s highly-rated Morocco in New Jersey, in an intriguing Group C game on Saturday.
Qatar 🇶🇦 meet Switzerland 🇨🇭 in San Francisco 🌉 with Julen Lopetegui taking charge of his first game at a World Cup finals. He was dismissed as manager of Spain on the eve of the 2018 World Cup, having been a non-playing member of their USA ’94 squad.
World Cup co-hosts Canada 🇨🇦 get their campaign going when they face Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 in Toronto this Friday.
Canada’s World Cup finals record going into this game reads: P6 L6. Will Jesse Marsch’s team make history against Sergej Barbarez’s Bosnia?
In 2024, Jesse Marsch used the Coaches’ Voice tactics board to explain the approach behind a critical victory for his Leeds United team against Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool at Anfield: learning.coachesvoice.com/cv…
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South Korea 🇰🇷 and Czechia 🇨🇿 open their World Cup campaigns in Guadalajara.
At 74 it will be Czechia coach Miroslav Koubek’s first experience of the finals, while Hong-Myung-Bo played in 4 consecutive World Cups (1990-2002), was assistant coach in 2006 & head coach in 2014.
The World Cup kicks off today when Mexico 🇲🇽 meet South Africa 🇿🇦 at the Estadio Azteca.
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Her SK Brann side are off to a great start in Norway’s Toppserien this year. And in this new Coaching Clinic, Laura Kaminski uses the Coaches’ Voice tactics board to explain a multi-directional practice that involves a build to then play through pressure and break forward, fast.
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In this clip, SK Brann Women head coach @LauraKaminski38 explains the benefits of a practice built around false transitions, that she has used with teams in the WSL & WSL 2.
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