Rob Suddaby
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⚽️📊📈 👨🏻‍💻 FIFA Football Data Insights Analyst • UEFA B Licence • Previously of Norwich City, Leicester City, The Information Lab and Vodafone • Views my own.
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There's also still time to apply for this absolute gem of a role with FIFA 👇🏻
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⚽️ We’re looking for Football Performance Analysts to join the team - Spanish speaking ⚽️

👉 Apply here - lnkd.in/g-nCkW24
Football Performance Analyst
Job Opening: Football Performance Analyst at FIFA in Remote.
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And then our in-house Goalkeeping expert Pascal Zuberbühler on the Future of the Goalkeeper: Distribution, Tactical Awareness & Leadership

How the goalkeeper role continues to evolve: leadership, tactical integration, and distribution under pressure.
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Roberto Martínez will take an in depth look at Offensive Balance: Creating Space, Timing and Numbers

Exploring the principles of attacking balance — how elite teams combine width, timing, and overloads to break defensive lines.
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Then we have Jürgen Klinsmann & Gilberto Silva – Pressing High with Purpose: Maximising Value in the Final Third

A look at how clubs apply pressing strategies to win the ball back in dangerous areas and create immediate attacking chances.
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First up is former Senegal Head Coach Aliou Cissé with the Role of the Full-back: Adapting to Space, Phase, and Opponent.

How full-backs now adapt their positioning and responsibilities depending on the phase of play and opposition structure.
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Each session dives into a key theme from elite club football, combining tactical detail, video analysis, and live Q&A opportunities. Several webinars include live interpretation in French and Spanish.
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We're hosting a new series of live webinars designed to share insights from some of the game’s leading coaches and technical experts based upon our in-depth analysis of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025.

Register on the FIFA Training Centre👇🏻
World club football series
Learn from Roberto Martínez, Aliou Cissé, Jürgen Klinsmann and others.
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We're hiring 🎉

Do you want to work at the cutting edge of football analytics, elevating the Women's game, or do you know someone who might?

More information / application details here:
careers.arsenal.com/jobs/6550595...
Data Scientist (Consultant) - Arsenal Football Club
Exciting opportunity to play a key role in elevating the Women’s game through cutting-edge analytics.
careers.arsenal.com
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If this excites you, or you know someone who would be a great fit, you can find out more and apply here:
👉 Apply here - lnkd.in/g-nCkW24
Football Performance Analyst
Job Opening: Football Performance Analyst at FIFA in Remote.
lnkd.in
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- Work well remotely and under tight deadlines

- Have fluency in both Spanish and English, which is essential for this role

At FIFA, performance analysis is about capturing the essence of the game and delivering insights that matter to coaches, players and the wider football community.
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We are particularly interested in analysts who:

- Have strong experience in football analysis at club, national team, or tournament level

- Are confident in using video and tactical frameworks to explain the game

- Can connect tactical insights with data to provide clear messages
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This is a chance to work at the heart of the game, study the biggest matches, break down tactical themes, and bring stories to life through video. Our analysis goes beyond the numbers: it’s about spotting patterns, understanding the details and showing how they influence performance on the pitch.
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⚽️ We’re looking for Football Performance Analysts to join the team - Spanish speaking ⚽️

👉 Apply here - lnkd.in/g-nCkW24
Football Performance Analyst
Job Opening: Football Performance Analyst at FIFA in Remote.
lnkd.in
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Thanks Rodrigo, glad you liked it 👍🏻
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As part of the same body of work, we also analysed goal threat across the various phases of set plays, allowing us to go beyond first contact and traditional analysis and explore the impact of maintaining a longer threat from set plays 👇🏻 www.fifatrainingcentre.com/en/game/tour...
Set plays: More goalscoring opportunities generated from corners and free kicks at FIFA Club World Cup
Our Technical Study Group and Football Performance Insights Team take a deep dive into the trajectory of the global club football landscape.
www.fifatrainingcentre.com
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Reposting for the morning crew
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For the past year or so our team at FIFA has been working hard to develop our set play analysis. Here’s the first article on defensive strategies using this new methodology from our post tournament analysis of the FIFA Club World Cup 👇🏻
www.fifatrainingcentre.com/en/game/tour...
Set plays: Defending corner strategies
Our Technical Study Group and Football Performance Insights Team take a deep dive into the trajectory of the global club football landscape.
www.fifatrainingcentre.com
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As part of the same body of work, we also analysed goal threat across the various phases of set plays, allowing us to go beyond first contact and traditional analysis and explore the impact of maintaining a longer threat from set plays 👇🏻 www.fifatrainingcentre.com/en/game/tour...
Set plays: More goalscoring opportunities generated from corners and free kicks at FIFA Club World Cup
Our Technical Study Group and Football Performance Insights Team take a deep dive into the trajectory of the global club football landscape.
www.fifatrainingcentre.com
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We’re really proud of the work we’ve put in to get to this stage and think this analysis helps us to understand the ever evolving world of set plays in greater detail than ever before! Please enjoy and share amongst the footballing community, we’re really keen to hear any feedback 👍🏻
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Hours of video analysis, research, validation and continued development has enabled us to define defensive strategies and the defensive roles within those strategies. There's lots of interesting take aways for lovers of the game, analysts, set play coaches and managers.
robsuddaby.bsky.social
For the past year or so our team at FIFA has been working hard to develop our set play analysis. Here’s the first article on defensive strategies using this new methodology from our post tournament analysis of the FIFA Club World Cup 👇🏻
www.fifatrainingcentre.com/en/game/tour...
Set plays: Defending corner strategies
Our Technical Study Group and Football Performance Insights Team take a deep dive into the trajectory of the global club football landscape.
www.fifatrainingcentre.com
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Well in Hatton 👏🏻 Much tighter in the end than it should have been but so satisfying to see the mass exodus #isthereafiredrill
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The absolute set on that lad 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Two absolutely horrendous sets of fans, two superb results. 👌🏻
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Get that in your hole 😂 🇪🇺 🇪🇺