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The Game Behind The Game : Understanding Football Through Perception, Decisions, Relationships, and Space

by Diaz
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Overview

Football is visible. What creates it is not.

The Game Behind the Game examines football beyond formations, techniques, tactics, and results. It explores the invisible process behind every action: how players perceive information, interpret space, form relationships, manage uncertainty, and make decisions while opponents actively attempt to disrupt them.

Rather than presenting football as a collection of predetermined solutions, David Diaz explains how solutions emerge through the interaction between the player, teammates, opponents, the ball, and the surrounding space. The book challenges the belief that football intelligence belongs only to the player in possession, revealing how every movement changes the possibilities available to everyone on the field.

Through an in-depth examination of perception, decision-making, positional control, superiorities, space, and collective behavior, readers gain a framework for understanding not only what happened during a match, but why it became possible.

Written for coaches, players, technical directors, and serious students of the game, The Game Behind the Game offers a deeper way of seeing, teaching, and understanding football. It encourages readers to move beyond rehearsed actions and isolated outcomes to recognize the relationships, information, and decisions that shape the game as it unfolds.

Because the decision does not begin when the ball arrives, and it does not end when the ball leaves.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798998053603
  • ISBN-10: 9798998053603
  • Publisher: David Diaz
  • Publish Date: October 2026
  • Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.48 pounds
  • Page Count: 262

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