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.

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  #209 Leading out: coach education as an ecological phenomenon

  Sep 14, 202611 min

  The word education comes from the Latin educere — to lead out. Not to fill in or to pour into. To lead out. Today's episode is the first of two on a subject that is one of the most under-examined corners of the football world: how coaches learn to coach. We walk through a 2024 paper by Lascu, Wood, Moulds and Davids that reframes coach education as an ecological phenomenon — and in doing so, turns the same argument we have been making about player development directly onto ourselves. In this episode: why the transmission model of coach education — curriculum, content blocks, workshops, licences — contradicts the very pedagogy we are increasingly asking coaches to use with players. Two concepts worth carrying into conversations about coach development: guidance without specification, and attentive dwelling. The idea of an evolving correspondence between mentor and mentee, and why it is the heart of what leading out actually means. The difference between knowledge about coaching and knowledge of coaching — and why our current model is wildly tilted toward the wrong one. Not more workshops. Long walks. Further reading Lascu, A., Wood, M., Moulds, K. & Davids, K. (2024). Coach education as 'leading out with an experienced other' . Sports Coaching Review, 13(2), 277–292. The Progressão book is on its way in English — more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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  #208 Not every rep at the red line: a case for varying training intensity

  Sep 7, 202614 min

  Last week we split the word intensity in two. Good intensity, effort as the natural consequence of a clear read. Bad intensity, effort as decoration. This week we take that split into the training session. Because something strange has happened in football over the last decade. The word intensity, having conquered how we talk about matches, has now conquered how we talk about sessions. Every rep at match pace or above. If you are not in the red zone, you are not really working. There is truth in some of this, but there is also a serious mistake buried in it. In this episode: why nobody has ever proved that constant high intensity is the optimal design for learning football over the long arc from age five to twenty-five. What javelin throwers, cross-country skiers and judokas have known for decades that football has somehow forgotten. The wood-chopping image returns — why slow is often where the real learning happens. What a rep actually is in an ecological design, and why counting touches misses most of what is happening. Why the active playing time metric, taken as the measure of session quality, quietly drifts sessions toward bad intensity. And what deliberately varied training intensity looks like on a football pitch. The Progressão book is on its way in English — more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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  #207 The intensity illusion: why "more intensity" is football's most misused instruction

  Aug 31, 202616 min

  Everyone in football uses the word intensity. Federations put it first in their principles. Coaches demand it. Analysts measure it. But what does it mean? Today's episode is about splitting the word in two. Because intensity is doing at least two very different jobs in football — and confusing them is the source of a lot of confused coaching. In this episode: why "more intensity" is often just "fight harder" wearing a nicer coat. The wood-chopping test, meaning why intensity without skill is flailing. What good intensity is: not effort as decoration, but effort as the natural consequence of a clear read. Insights from Joni Ruuskanen, physical performance specialist at the Football Association of Finland, on what actually separates top players in high-intensity moments, and why Julián Álvarez and Pernille Harder win duels their physique alone shouldn't win. Why sprint metrics tell us what is different between levels, but not why. And what it would mean to change what the word intensity means inside your sessions. Good, skillful intensity is knowing where to look and when to move. That is what we should coach. The Progressão book is on its way in English, more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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  #206 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Mike Keeney – American soccer, skill, and what thirty years across continents teaches you

  Aug 24, 202654 min

  Thirty years in football across five continents. The US, Finland, Slovakia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, including a stint in the UEFA Europa League. Mike Keeney has seen the game from enough angles to have well-informed opinions about what actually develops a player. He now leads the MLS NEXT program at Hoover-Vestavia Soccer in Birmingham, Alabama, and shapes the next generation of American coaches as an instructor on the US Soccer A Licence course. He holds a UEFA Pro Licence. In this conversation: what moving between football cultures teaches you about skill, and what gets left behind when you come home. The honest state of American soccer after a World Cup on home soil. Whether the cultural tendency toward athleticism over improvisation is really changing, or just being discussed. What an elite development environment looks like in Birmingham, Alabama in 2026. And, the pay-to-play model and how much potential the system isn't seeing. The Progressão book is on its way in English — more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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  #205 Emotion is not noise: affective learning design in football

  Aug 17, 202613 min

  A training session can be tactically representative with right distances, pressure, opponent behaviours, and still be missing something important. The feeling in the stomach before a decisive pass. The exhaustion of a fifth game in two weeks. The awareness that this moment might decide qualification. That ingredient has a name in the ecological dynamics literature: affect. And the conceptual framework related to it is called Affective Learning Design. Today we walk through the 2015 paper by Headrick, Renshaw, Davids, Pinder, and Araújo that framed this idea, and what it means for how we build sessions. In this episode: the difference between cold cognition and hot cognition, and why removing emotion from training doesn't clean it up but thins it out. Why emotion sharpens perception and strengthens memory, and what that means for which skills players carry into the game. The two principles of Affective Learning Design, and how to use them. Practical moves: vignettes, stakes, scrutiny, individualisation. Studies from dart throwing, police handgun training, basketball free throws, gymnastics and football, all pointing the same direction. Emotion is not noise. It is a constraint that shapes what a player perceives, decides and does. Time to design for it. Further reading Headrick, J., Renshaw, I., Davids, K., Pinder, R.A. & Araújo, D. (2015). The dynamics of expertise acquisition in sport: The role of affective learning design . Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 16(1), 83–90. The Progressão book is on its way in English — more on that soon. More at progressao.fi Instagram @progressaofi LinkedIn @Project Progressão

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