Karl Marius Askum is the U19's coach at Odds Ballklubb. Alongside this role he has also completed a PHD in Visual Perception in football. More frequently called 'scanning', visual perception is becoming increasingly focused on within academic literature with emphasis on the importance it plays in top players taking in and analysing the game around them.

Show notes:

1:00 – Who is Karl Marius Aksum

2:40 – Norwegian performance football pathway

8:00 – Academy progression in Norwegian football

11:20 – Playing catch up with technical capabilities

15:00 – Visual perception in football

19:00 – Casemiro scanning capability in football

21:00 – Why is scanning important

24:30 – The challenges in of ball fixation

29:00 – Session design to increase scan frequency

33:00 – Key identifiers to support players in scanning ability

37:00 – Coaching positional play as part of a visual perception framework

41:00 – Utilisation of extra’s to improve scanning

50:00 – How would Karl like to be described

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