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JAMES VAUGHAN | Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you how you play

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The Relational Game in Brazil

I think there's a really interesting, like it's a very interesting time in football in general at the moment. And this is really coming from Brazil with the ideas of relationalism. It's kind of an idea that is has been proposed as something distinct and counter to traditional positional play. But what's super interesting is when you hear the coach talk of Fluminense, what he talks about is his players. They have a way of bringing themselves and expressing themselves in football. In many ways, this way of playing is an expression of those players. So I think it's a wonderful example of a style of play emerging with and co-created with the players from a specific cultural context.

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