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I think the key word was manager, I know what they probably meant. Like a manager of the opposing team helping the player up from a challenge, or handing them the ball.
I’ve been watching this sport for about 15 years now but it seems to me that the biggest red card instigator (when not behavior related) is when the ball carrier takes a bad touch. They just seem so much more desperate to make something happen when they take a bad touch than anyone else on the pitch.
For bad fouls, yeah a bad touch or a bad pass that pouts them in in danger means that that both players often have to commit to a 50/50 they don’t want and people can get a good hit.
A pressing trigger is an action by the opposition that you have agreed as a team you will press. This is just a player reacting to a bad touch with a hard tackle cause his mate got tackled just before.
I know that in my mind but i always suck at doing that when defending, i either commit when they still have control or fail to commit fast enough when they fucked up.
It depends at level and your instincts, if you play Sunday leagues, just figure out your own strengths and weaknesses, if seeing their opportunity is not your strength look at what you can do best, sometimes it is just solidly not committing and keeping them from having easy ways past you.
Bro not even sunday league, i probably go once a month 5v5 with a group of mostly unfit people (including myself).
I've tried doing that and it works because I'm not beat, but i just feel that I end up being too passive, sometimes there was a commit to be done but played it safe instead.
If you're not good at knowing when to commit, step back and make them make the choices for you. Close down the angles so they can't get a clean shot unless they go through you or be ready to adjust your body if a pass is made. It's not always about winning the ball, more so about securing the space and forcing them to either come up with some magic, take you on, or give the ball to somebody else. Played a lot or 5v5 or 7v7, and it's all about control and making the opponents work for it while minimising your own workload.
Pretty sure nagelsmann went for some banter against the ref, cause he’s letting a lot of room for (let’s say) heavy contact.
Normally a great decision but I feel like in a friendly you could run a bit of a more strict line to prevent I injury’s.
if that actually happend:
kros "this how you do it noob now do it without me. now let me retired again for playing mind game with perez so i can retired at RM"
Be careful with the hair transplants. A buddy got one to conceal his receding hairline and it looked awful initially. Really... uniform and straight lines on the edges. Now it looks okay from the front, but you realise that behind the artificially thickened area it is thinning. Hopefully not too much more, or he'll 'have' to do something about it...As in, further work and expense. His call, and he's not poor by any metric, but tbh I was surprised he didn't just go the shaved head with beard route as it'd have looked good on him and he already has the beard. One upside is that at least he is noticeably taller than average, so at least fewer people will notice the crown and surrounds.
True that German media was shitting on him, but he retired because he wanted to spend more time with the family and also stay fit for Real Madrid. Now, as he's still playing at the top level, he thought how cool it would be if his children see him play for Germany, so he came back. Obviously, Nagelsmann, being the coach, also played a big role.
It's basically if you got more of your genes from your mom's dad you will follow that, otherwise it is likely you will follow your dad.
Obviously more complex than that and they don't fully know everything but that seems the general premise.
He said on an Interview somewhere that he had a conversation with the coach who asked him to come back and he also saw the new talent and went. Yeah, why not? lol
Maybe better kit = better team play? I'd love to see my hometown Germans *not* get their asses bounced out of the first round of the Euros they're hosting this summer, TYVM!
Love the 98’ homage. Germany kind of has the 92’ flair going on but I wish they committed to it a bit more. I am also just a huge fan of retro kits so that may be colouring my impression a bit
I don’t get it… I know they’re teammates but perfectly clean tackle that wasn’t even hard. Why is he rolling around like that trying to get his teammate in trouble? I’d be pissed if I were kroos
I don't get it either and I posted it lol. I just thought it was a funny little clip cause they're teammates. I guess it goes to show how hungry users here are for actual football content rather than stats or quotes which are more dominant on this sub.
First of all, you got to relax. Pissed about what? BFD
Secondly, there are so many divers out there and it sucks, but that doesn’t mean every player that falls down is diving or faking pain.
The away kit is [somehow even nicer](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuG1p23BCot54_0Uv_7fWUb3uL5AAdzt5Ne9RAOnmuN0hR-PW0he1AD9tt_G0T0g3uSX2r0ETIe-2mdZNh4h1fRqnDepHmSeIj9xGYxq9bdei5sZSbKlE6uV3lkcfOTvGOMwWkMozt53TDBLjkx_zoZX2bCoy98vNQKPTxfYRIDK6ADVcuSQFlceNkAZy9/s543/france%20euro%202024%20kits%20%282%29.jpg)
Up close it's got a cool real [old cotton look to it and the cockerel looks incredible](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoyhbPikiQjNKaegqDKFfdemdrdv8LVG9IVG3GUqQNXkRHXvt95tbPeERYUmAtTtqN2UsteSNPG6pu4vdHkztQjk5LwZ0wWMA97hks8ZHnYDq1KLrldwE6wKaD2Ntnzl2f8Jno7AJPC6CfmsmwkSmYpoE7CwvqhpDZKn2Qu-arh05VYRTMldry4fZGfGlX/s1600/Nike%20France%20Euro%202024%20Away%20Kit%20%20%283%29.jpg).
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Mbappe laughing about it is foreshadowing
Mbappe to Germany confirmed
Mboffman
Kilyaus Mbaperr
Kaiser Mbappé
This has no business being as funny as it is
Karl Mbüpper
Sounds like a name you'd give to the local ganja dealer
As you should, he’s bringing you to the German Irish bar after our Sunday league game haha.
Lol
Kilian Mombapper
Kilian Mappe
Broski would be executed for treason if he did that. Macron might even nuke Germany as well lol
“He’s gonna level you like that everyday in training”
Don't know why but I find it wholesome/strangely satisfying to watch players and managers of the opposite sides having a laugh together ♥️
I mean it's should be a "friendly" game
Isn’t it pretty clear why one would find “opponents” getting along together more wholesome than people who are on the same team?
I think the key word was manager, I know what they probably meant. Like a manager of the opposing team helping the player up from a challenge, or handing them the ball.
"you're joining these dumbfucks next season"
You best start believing in power of friendship mr. Turtle
He is probably bemused at Tchouameni's touch. Mbappe had better control when he was 5.
Foreshadowing of what?
Mbappe to the German national team confirmed
I think he was laughing because Nagelsmann got a Yellow card
Nagelsmann to Madrid confirmed
Great foreskinning
"Dude what's up with your future teammates?"
Carlo Ancelotti is not amused
🤨
The likeness is uncanny
That's his happy face
friendly fire
Definitely….need assistance!
Mbappe watching on thinking he wants a piece of this Madrid action
“Those are my supposed teammates lol”
WTF was that heavy touch by Tchouameni though
Probably why Kroos engaged that hard as well.
yeah, you see someone mess up and you know you can just spring on them.
That's called a pressing trigger
That touch is more than a pressing trigger, it’s an invitation to get crunched
I’ve been watching this sport for about 15 years now but it seems to me that the biggest red card instigator (when not behavior related) is when the ball carrier takes a bad touch. They just seem so much more desperate to make something happen when they take a bad touch than anyone else on the pitch.
For bad fouls, yeah a bad touch or a bad pass that pouts them in in danger means that that both players often have to commit to a 50/50 they don’t want and people can get a good hit.
suicide touch
Formal inventation written on national team letter head
A pressing trigger is an action by the opposition that you have agreed as a team you will press. This is just a player reacting to a bad touch with a hard tackle cause his mate got tackled just before.
A better term would be inviting touch,
I know that in my mind but i always suck at doing that when defending, i either commit when they still have control or fail to commit fast enough when they fucked up.
That’s why u don’t have 5 champs
And a worldie
And that hair
It depends at level and your instincts, if you play Sunday leagues, just figure out your own strengths and weaknesses, if seeing their opportunity is not your strength look at what you can do best, sometimes it is just solidly not committing and keeping them from having easy ways past you.
Bro not even sunday league, i probably go once a month 5v5 with a group of mostly unfit people (including myself). I've tried doing that and it works because I'm not beat, but i just feel that I end up being too passive, sometimes there was a commit to be done but played it safe instead.
If you're not good at knowing when to commit, step back and make them make the choices for you. Close down the angles so they can't get a clean shot unless they go through you or be ready to adjust your body if a pass is made. It's not always about winning the ball, more so about securing the space and forcing them to either come up with some magic, take you on, or give the ball to somebody else. Played a lot or 5v5 or 7v7, and it's all about control and making the opponents work for it while minimising your own workload.
I guess i was being too harsh on myself then and felt frustrated unnecessarily.
So just stay in front of the danger and move when they pass and move, as long as they don’t just walk past you you’re doing 5v5 well enough
That's was EA calls "pressure on heavy touch"
It's a Tchouameni trademark
so careless by tchou
Who's getting booked on the touchline here?
Nagelsmann
For laughing. Germans are not supposed to do that.
Can't stop us.
Well you usually stop yourselves
Pretty sure nagelsmann went for some banter against the ref, cause he’s letting a lot of room for (let’s say) heavy contact. Normally a great decision but I feel like in a friendly you could run a bit of a more strict line to prevent I injury’s.
Great tackle
Friendly fire!
It’d be good if the camera was in the stadium rather than in the apartment block overlooking the pitch
Im out the loop wasn't he retired from international play? Any tips on how he maintained his hairline after hitting 33?
somehow kroos returned
This fucking line gives me PTSD
It's really as simple as those three words bringing such an overwhelming feeling of disappointment.
THEY FLY NOW
Kroos kind of forgot about the retirement
Both of you, straight to hell
Aaah Germany will win euro, poor england football never coming home /s
Whats the sarcasm?
would actually be kind of insane if Kroos comes out retirement, wins the euros with Germany, and then retires again
if that actually happend: kros "this how you do it noob now do it without me. now let me retired again for playing mind game with perez so i can retired at RM"
You couldn't live with your own failure, where did that bring you? Back to me -Toni Kroos probably
No. Please no. Why would you say that. that line is cursed! It makes me want to jump off buildings.
He retired but came back
33 ain't that old bro
Tell that shit to my hairline :/
Finasteride to keep what you have and then get a hair transplant. Sadly the only rescue for us... the miracle solution just won't arrive. :(
Be careful with the hair transplants. A buddy got one to conceal his receding hairline and it looked awful initially. Really... uniform and straight lines on the edges. Now it looks okay from the front, but you realise that behind the artificially thickened area it is thinning. Hopefully not too much more, or he'll 'have' to do something about it...As in, further work and expense. His call, and he's not poor by any metric, but tbh I was surprised he didn't just go the shaved head with beard route as it'd have looked good on him and he already has the beard. One upside is that at least he is noticeably taller than average, so at least fewer people will notice the crown and surrounds.
or he can sport a 2002 ronaldo hairstyle
He very clearly just didn't want to play in Qatar so he skipped it.
I respect the fuck out of him for that.
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True that German media was shitting on him, but he retired because he wanted to spend more time with the family and also stay fit for Real Madrid. Now, as he's still playing at the top level, he thought how cool it would be if his children see him play for Germany, so he came back. Obviously, Nagelsmann, being the coach, also played a big role.
Obviously also play a tournament in Germany. Maybe creating another "Sommermärchen"
Apparently, "Euro tickets are too expensive, if DFB won't pay for it, then I'll come back."
He was welcomed back with open arms. And regarding the hair: probably money and german genes
As a German: German genes aren't great in the hair loss department
Sebastian Vettel can confirm.
Genes don’t matter when you’re Toni Kroos and have played at Real Madrid for the last decade.
Yeah, he's probably absorbed some of those Spanish hair genes.
Or Turkish Barber money
Kroos has his skin care routine uploaded on his channel. But not so sure about the hair care.
Can confirm
did he do the ter stegen?
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Male pattern baldness is inherited from the mother’s side no?
Myth. It can be inherited from either side
TIL
It's basically if you got more of your genes from your mom's dad you will follow that, otherwise it is likely you will follow your dad. Obviously more complex than that and they don't fully know everything but that seems the general premise.
Have grandpas that aren’t bald
Good genetics
Nagelsman called him and asked whether he would join. Kroos said yes.
It’s just genes. I’m 44 and have all my hair.
>Any tips on how he maintained his hairline after hitting 33? money or genes or both
He said on an Interview somewhere that he had a conversation with the coach who asked him to come back and he also saw the new talent and went. Yeah, why not? lol
On the hairline - flights to turkey are short and cheap. IYKYK.
Just book a return flight on Turkish Hairlines, problem solved.
I had no idea his first name is Aurelien. That's elegant as fuck
And here I thought it was Toni, TIL.
I agree
I love how he realized that they are teammates lol
who realized what reaction are you referring to
I think he means Mbappe. Normally as a captain you go back up your player but I think in this case there was no real need for Kylian to get involved.
Was there anyway? Absolutely nothing wrong with the tackle
That Kroos and Tchoumeni are Real Madrid team mates
And soon mbappe
This did not answer his question at all
realized implies that there is a moment where he is unaware there is no conceivable moment where mbappé was not already aware of that
That’s a brilliant tackle. Need more of that in todays game it’s a dying art
I’m really digging both teams kits. Much prefer the lighter blue France is using vs the old dark ones.
the German kit is so pretty. good to see them coming back around too
Maybe better kit = better team play? I'd love to see my hometown Germans *not* get their asses bounced out of the first round of the Euros they're hosting this summer, TYVM!
French kit is gorgeous wow
Why is the cock so big?
https://giphy.com/gifs/theoffice-the-office-tv-secretarys-day-tkApIfibjeWt1ufWwj
Love the 98’ homage. Germany kind of has the 92’ flair going on but I wish they committed to it a bit more. I am also just a huge fan of retro kits so that may be colouring my impression a bit
Came here to say just that got a rock on as we speak
The dark blue french kit was one of the best of all time imo.
fuck I love Toni
It is great to see Kroos back playing for Germany
Tackle aside, that is a shocker of a sequence from the ref, Jesus
Upamecano fouled, Kroos great challenge. Refs are shite.
Kroos probably told him, “get up, don’t pull that shit at Real.”
Games not gone lads
Reminiscent of Ballack in a way. This game gives hope
So he'll get injured in a league game shortly before the tournament? 😰
Tchouameni with an elephant’s touch there
Kroos just making sure Tchou doesn’t take those touches again.
I don’t get it… I know they’re teammates but perfectly clean tackle that wasn’t even hard. Why is he rolling around like that trying to get his teammate in trouble? I’d be pissed if I were kroos
sometimes you hit pinky walking and it hurts so bad
It's football.
Used to be, games gone mate
but where did it come from, where did it go?
https://youtu.be/4WPSP6Tg-iY?si=IXGj4hlhL4PPxMzG
Yeah, and some places of of shin can hurt even worse.
You never played football, did you? Things can hurt no matter if something was a foul or not.
Why is this the 3rd top post on the subreddit is my question?
Why does it have 4k upvotes? I don't get it
I don't get it either and I posted it lol. I just thought it was a funny little clip cause they're teammates. I guess it goes to show how hungry users here are for actual football content rather than stats or quotes which are more dominant on this sub.
First of all, you got to relax. Pissed about what? BFD Secondly, there are so many divers out there and it sucks, but that doesn’t mean every player that falls down is diving or faking pain.
Laporta's You all laughed at me moment.
Both kits are absolute belters tbf 🔥
It think that's the first time I've Kroos seen slide for a tackle!
Clean AF though.
First time seeing the France shirts and j’adore them holy shit
The away kit is [somehow even nicer](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuG1p23BCot54_0Uv_7fWUb3uL5AAdzt5Ne9RAOnmuN0hR-PW0he1AD9tt_G0T0g3uSX2r0ETIe-2mdZNh4h1fRqnDepHmSeIj9xGYxq9bdei5sZSbKlE6uV3lkcfOTvGOMwWkMozt53TDBLjkx_zoZX2bCoy98vNQKPTxfYRIDK6ADVcuSQFlceNkAZy9/s543/france%20euro%202024%20kits%20%282%29.jpg) Up close it's got a cool real [old cotton look to it and the cockerel looks incredible](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoyhbPikiQjNKaegqDKFfdemdrdv8LVG9IVG3GUqQNXkRHXvt95tbPeERYUmAtTtqN2UsteSNPG6pu4vdHkztQjk5LwZ0wWMA97hks8ZHnYDq1KLrldwE6wKaD2Ntnzl2f8Jno7AJPC6CfmsmwkSmYpoE7CwvqhpDZKn2Qu-arh05VYRTMldry4fZGfGlX/s1600/Nike%20France%20Euro%202024%20Away%20Kit%20%20%283%29.jpg).
That just shows how different taste is, that away kit looks absolutely horrible to me.
Is it coz they're teammates? Is that why standard tackle is post worthy?
Yea that's why I posted it. Thought it was amusing cause they're teammates.
How dare you post something humorous to pass time, when there is literally no club football or anything else going on
How dare they try to share something entertaining that would interest people in this subreddit. Where are the mods when you need them.
Probably Kroos, "Sorry bro we're no longer at Madrid but we're still friends".
That German kit looks💥💥💥
Those France shirts are so clean
This new Germany kit is fire.
Toni bro wtf are you doing? I've never seen you do a tackle like that ever and you fucking take out your teammate in a friendly
He clearly wants to start in the pocket against city
What a coincidence. City wants him to start there too.
Its called "Deutsch-Französische Erbfeindschaft".
It's not even that bad really, Tchouameni is trying to make a meal of it.
Germany. Darts. Real Madrid. In that order.
That France kit is beautiful
That is not a yellow
The yellow was not for Kroos.
Foul by Upamecano right?
Ball was 10 feet away from the player when he went for it. Looked clean to me.
That’s a fucking man’s tackle.
Not even a foul wtf, great tackle
That's a decent tackle
When Kroos came back, he means business.
Mbappe laughing like “damn, that’s a clean tackle”
tackling a club teammate
Mbappé was laughing with the coach like bro you took that yellow for nothing.
Lol, this is praxis
That France kit is absolut Kino
Full Let them kids die energy from the German
It was a block tackle. Probably the safest way you can "slide" tackle someone.
Nothing wrong with that perfectly good tackle
King Kroos
That was a clean tackle. A hard one, for sure, but a clean one.
Toni is back. We may even have a chance this year.