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In Episode 404 we went full savage on the dark arts of soccer.
We explained why diving, time-wasting, shirt-pulling, ref manipulation, and mass confrontation aren’t cheating they’re the actual game. We broke down how South American street culture creates winners while American soccer culture produces soft, naive players terrified of “unsportsmanlike” behavior.
We showed why VAR is killing the soul of football, why Messi sometimes stays on his feet while everyone else must go down, and why parents and coaches who virtue-signal about “integrity” are the ones truly disrespecting the sport. We crowned the all-time dark arts moments (Maradona’s Hand of God and Suárez vs Ghana) and asked the question every serious person must face: if you’re not willing to do whatever it takes (within the laws) to win why are you even competing?
00:00 Intro
05:40 Examples of The Dark Arts
08:56 How Coaches Use The Dark Arts
18:04 Is Using The Dark Arts “Cheating”?
19:53 Why VAR is Ruining the Game
22:50 How The American Media and MLS Demonized The Dark Arts and Exacerbated the Notion that “Soccer is for Pussies”
27:11 Why Messi Doesn’t Need to Dive
29:58 Other Countries Culture Make Them Better at The Dark Arts
36:46 Dark Arts Aren’t Demonized in Other Sports
42:25 Regarding American “Best Athletes” Play the Other Sports
50:58 Can Parents Positively Influence the Dark Arts?
54:04 What About “Good Sportsmantship and Integrity”?
56:57 What’s the Best Example of the “Dark Arts”?
59:57 Can The Dark Arts Go “Too Far”, and What About Shit Talking?
01:02:36 Does Having Pochettino for the USMNT Help, and is it Enough?
01:05:28 What Countries are the Best at Dark Arts?
01:09:43 Coaches Inciting Dark Arts During a Match
01:15:19 College Students and Modern Education
01:18:54 The Value is in the Insight You Can’t Get From Practitioners/Employees
01:21:50 A Particular Cultural Demographic in the States is Elevated in Place of the More Talented
01:22:46 What is “Mano Negra”?
If you are a coach or a parent of a player, we’ve also codified and made available the remarkable work of a coach who trained and shepherded many, many players from the age of 9 all the way to graduating them to being professionals.
The products that show you how this was done, is what sponsors this episode.
Get aboard a proven path, a legitimately proven path, not something copied or synthesized from elsewhere, or worse. No, but rather a first hand account and curriculum directly from the source, from the practitioners themselves, whose work is unprecedented in the American soccer environment.
Learn the methodology at 343coaching.com.
You don’t have to be lost and confused.
This is brought to you by the 3four3 coaching education program.
Learn more and join over 1000 coaches using our proven possession-based methodology.
The post #404 – The Dark Arts of Soccer: Why Gamesmanship Wins Games (And Why America Calls It Cheating) appeared first on 3four3.
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In Episode 404 we went full savage on the dark arts of soccer.
We explained why diving, time-wasting, shirt-pulling, ref manipulation, and mass confrontation aren’t cheating they’re the actual game. We broke down how South American street culture creates winners while American soccer culture produces soft, naive players terrified of “unsportsmanlike” behavior.
We showed why VAR is killing the soul of football, why Messi sometimes stays on his feet while everyone else must go down, and why parents and coaches who virtue-signal about “integrity” are the ones truly disrespecting the sport. We crowned the all-time dark arts moments (Maradona’s Hand of God and Suárez vs Ghana) and asked the question every serious person must face: if you’re not willing to do whatever it takes (within the laws) to win why are you even competing?
00:00 Intro
05:40 Examples of The Dark Arts
08:56 How Coaches Use The Dark Arts
18:04 Is Using The Dark Arts “Cheating”?
19:53 Why VAR is Ruining the Game
22:50 How The American Media and MLS Demonized The Dark Arts and Exacerbated the Notion that “Soccer is for Pussies”
27:11 Why Messi Doesn’t Need to Dive
29:58 Other Countries Culture Make Them Better at The Dark Arts
36:46 Dark Arts Aren’t Demonized in Other Sports
42:25 Regarding American “Best Athletes” Play the Other Sports
50:58 Can Parents Positively Influence the Dark Arts?
54:04 What About “Good Sportsmantship and Integrity”?
56:57 What’s the Best Example of the “Dark Arts”?
59:57 Can The Dark Arts Go “Too Far”, and What About Shit Talking?
01:02:36 Does Having Pochettino for the USMNT Help, and is it Enough?
01:05:28 What Countries are the Best at Dark Arts?
01:09:43 Coaches Inciting Dark Arts During a Match
01:15:19 College Students and Modern Education
01:18:54 The Value is in the Insight You Can’t Get From Practitioners/Employees
01:21:50 A Particular Cultural Demographic in the States is Elevated in Place of the More Talented
01:22:46 What is “Mano Negra”?
If you are a coach or a parent of a player, we’ve also codified and made available the remarkable work of a coach who trained and shepherded many, many players from the age of 9 all the way to graduating them to being professionals.
The products that show you how this was done, is what sponsors this episode.
Get aboard a proven path, a legitimately proven path, not something copied or synthesized from elsewhere, or worse. No, but rather a first hand account and curriculum directly from the source, from the practitioners themselves, whose work is unprecedented in the American soccer environment.
Learn the methodology at 343coaching.com.
You don’t have to be lost and confused.
This is brought to you by the 3four3 coaching education program.
Learn more and join over 1000 coaches using our proven possession-based methodology.
The post #404 – The Dark Arts of Soccer: Why Gamesmanship Wins Games (And Why America Calls It Cheating) appeared first on 3four3.

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