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'2 touch or not 2 touch - that is the question' - a conversation with Cal Jones, Julian Khalili and 'Goody'

The Talent Equation Podcast

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Why Do You Want Your Team to Play Two Touches?

I've just got one question if you don't mind me cutting across to you. Why do you want people to be too touch wizards? Professional footballers have always taken fewer touches than maybe an amateur footballer would because they take less time to orientate themselves with body position. It's just not skillful. But in the modern game as well, a lot of past movement is to actually open up the opposition. So I don't want my team to only be able to do that. I want them to be able to play to the strengths. And if I've got fantastic dribblers, they'll dribble fantastically well. But there'll be certain occasions when they need to be very

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