With the start of the transfer window in January, the 78 -year -old American and field coach is unconventional. to Manchester United Robin Amorim, even if it is not the invitation of the main coach, is actually logical. The appointment of Harry Marra, on the basis of consulting for a few weeks, is designed to improve the UNITED individually and collectively in the ground covering the ground efficiently and frequently.
Marra, who graduated from the University of Sri Law in 1974 with a master’s degree in physical education and exercise science, is famous for training the United States of America Decathlete Ashton Eaton to Gold in Olympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016) and World Championships (Moscow 2013, Beijing in 2015, where he also won the world record since its victory). Etone still holds the twentieth world at the best of more than 400 meters (45.00 seconds), and at the best of 25 offers from twenty in all times, it is occupied by 10.23s 100m in second place.
Marra’s relationship with Etone returns to early 2010 when they worked together at the University of Oregon, where Marra trained Brian Thesen NCAA Group titles and records. As Heththlit, she continued to win the Olympics (Rio 2016) and the global space (Moscow 2013, Beijing 2015).
Marra also spent more than 10 years at the same time with the baseball team in San Francisco, as a USa Track & Field school.
In 2018, Marra trained Indonesian runner Lalu Mohamed Zouheri on the Gold World Athletics Championship. With the best personality to 10.03, Zohri is on the threshold of only the eleventh Asian man to break the barrier 10 seconds in 100 meters.
What is this relationship with Manchester United? Very much. It is a sign of Marra’s training, over 40 years, has achieved success with teams, groups and individuals between ages, backgrounds, starting levels and resources. If the criticism is that his age makes him out of touch, then think about openness and the ability to adapt he needs to work with senior athletes and teams for a longer period than matters.
Marra with Etone in 2016 (Andy Lyon/Getty Emp)
More importantly, running more and better is something that I United wants to do. “If you want to win Premier LeagueHe said in December, before a 3-2 defeat against 3-2 Nutingham forestHe has the fifth responsible match. “If this is not the case, we will not do that (win), this is clear. It is impossible to win the Premier League without a team, at every moment, runs forward. Even with the best start of the eleventh, without running, they will not win anything.”
The revolution led by mathematical sciences in the late first decade of the twentieth century achieved a transformation of the Premier League into the most sporty league in Europe, and is still increasing in intensity. One study of the Premier League games between 2006 and 2013 Zobilizers of 30 and 35 percent have shown in high -density and enemy distances. Another paper found 12 and 15 percent in the same standards from 2014-15 to 198-19. Data from skillcorner shows that height has continued. This season, the averages of high-density matches increased by 16 percent in the 2018-19 campaign. The enemy’s frequencies increased by more than 23 percent.
Amorim said from the appointment of Marra: “It was not me, it was the club.” “We are always trying to bring experienced people to share knowledge with employees, understand the body, and understand how you can improve our players. It was not, it was nothing new. It is not to train the team, it is present to train employees on everything about running, etc. It is a simple thing that we are used to doing as a club.
Amorim is the desire to build a team on distress and physical not new. Tottenham Hotspurand Liverpool and Bournemouth They all have or have identities supported by pressure and aggression. His predecessor, Eric Tin Hag, wanted United to be “the best transitional team in the world.” He also turned to specialized training, where he was appointed Benny McCarthy as an attacker who was attacked before Marcus Rashford He produced his most abundant season in 2022-23 (30 goals in all competitions).
More importantly, any running coach will not make players faster. Acceleration, energy and maximum speed but are not taught. These features condemn a lot of the physiological player’s willingness. that it It appears in the functional path of the elite hostilityWhose talent is clear in childhood and before deliberate training, and they reach the position of global peak or peak before that with many other sports.
Instead, the specialized coach should help identify and reduce problems in mechanics that may lead to injury. Last season, United suffered the largest time loss injuries in the league I struggle to name four consistent apostasy. Harry Maguir and Mason JabalThose who were injured several times, are examples of “problems” and “rehabilitation”, the terms used by Jonas Dudu, a performance advisor with Brighton, Hof Albion and Newcastle United Which specializes in training and analysis in movement and race.
Dodoo, whose background came in SPRINT training in the rugby and athletics game, worked first as a football performance consultant in 2016 with Derby County. Thyu Walcott cite and Tariq Lambti Two players at a noticeable pace – between the players who helped rehabilitate it. The training form he uses as follows: “brakes, plant, separate. This is what they need to be able to do it.”
Marsat Etone and Theisen in Eugene, Oregon in 2013 (Doug Pensinzer/Getty Images)
“They must be able to brake strongly and efficiently so that they can effectively cultivate and separate their opponents, and run quickly,” says Dudo. “You should be conditional on the creation of the necessary forces, but you also need efficiency, do this over and over again – 40, 60 times in the game you may have to speed up, and the forces are more tired in the body slowing down.”
Changing the player’s mechanics will completely take this type of time, training and resources that football rarely offers, but there are still gains that you must get when training. “You want to make sure you can access the positions and attitudes needed to disintegrate, accelerate and change the direction well,” says Dudo. “This is the hypothesis that you start (training). With regard to the enemy’s ability, you can make very rapid and effective changes on the first three steps that make sure they know how to create powers in the right direction.
“If you can accelerate well on the first three steps, and if you know how to stop strongly in your first three steps, this may have a basic impact on your material qualities and your performance.”
The nature of football and the stages of the game (with a lot of stable possession, setting the pieces and 22 players on the 105m x 68 meter stadium) Players rarely reach their actual speeds in the matches. That is why, at the PSV Academy, its criteria for performing the first team level in the 30 -meter race test, also includes a threshold for the speed of players ’need to cover the first 10 meters.
Accelerate, faster and more efficient to buy time and space (or reduce them to opponents). “If your gear is really aggressive, you should actually, the survey can be performed and prepared for the next procedure,” says Dudo.
United Academy – in Rashford, Alejandro garnachoAnd Amad and Anthony Elanga (He was sold to Nottingham Forest in July 2023)-She developed some of the best contestants and hurry in the department. “Elanga is the model,” says Dodoo, who is participating in SpeedWorks, a enemy training company that has developed a database for athletes. American Football AssociationElite and Rajabi International. We have 5000 races for 3000 players. What we consider is very effective and effective is what Elanga produces in its operation.
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In the first two months of this season, Rashford, Jarnasho and Ilanga prepared the list for the top 10 speeds in the Premier League match – because the players rarely reaches the maximum speed, describing them as the “fastest” will be a wrong name. If he was not because of his gait. It stands out to take a lot of short steps with lower heels (and has a volatile arm pattern reminds us of his Ivorian colleague and a 100 -meter Mary Kozi Ta) while Grancho takes great steps.
This difference in mechanics may also explain its difference as troops. As the major United players, Amad 46.7 percent of the Premier League distillation, compared to only 32.5 percent for Garnacho. “It is (either) closer to the ground and has a high step rate, meaning that he can make adjustments very quickly,” says Dudo.
As for (22 years) and Garnacho (20) are a member of the United team, a relatively young man. Midfielders Toby Coller (20), Manuel Ugariti (23), and Kobbie Mainoo (19), in addition to the middle Liny Euro (19) The attacker Rasmos Holund (21) Either they play football in England or have taken movements to United from other European League championships in the past two seasons.
From within the club, it feels that the most difficult part of ascending to the level of the association is the material requirements (more than that/tactical) and the risk of subsequent injury.
Dudo says that the teams need “a smart rotation system with these young players. In particular, the more the number of the rapid merchant in which the player is, the more caused to keep it loaded but not loaded.”
Running coaches are not new in football. The former GB GB team worked Darren Campbell in MK Dons and with Andriy Shevchenko while he was in Chelsea. Similarly, Lyon Reed, the former international hostility, worked on the operating technology of Brighton players. All aspects of the American Football Association-Jacksonville Jaguar, Tennessee Titans and Houston Texas-all employed “speed development managers”, although there is a natural seizure of a mechanical/running coach there, given the combination of the US Football Association and 40 yards.
Garnacho showed his enemy ability this season (Paul Elis/AFP/Getty Images)
The Premier League in the era of specialized coaches: hybrid coaches coaches, specific coaches, coaches of the situation. The return of the coach’s investment that can keep the players equipped (and may make them move better) has the ability to be huge.
Internally, Amorim criticized fitness levels, and United numbers have decreased intensity compared to the last season.
The operation of more (and the most difficult) is not a good thing automatically, and requires the context of tactics, the country of the game, the style of opposition and quality, but as Dodoo indicates, “The manager’s model is a high density, and the players must be conditional on that. If you are conditional on this way to train with one manager The next manager brings a more intense model (meaning) that the adaptation of the team needs to rise. “
Not from the same approach that was followed by ten Hags when He had his players running several kilometers after a defeat away from Brentard In August 2023 (to show the extent of “Outran”). Nevertheless, availability is the best capacity, and United must improve there if they want to implement the method that Amorim wants, not to mention the operation of their season.
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(Higher Image: Manchester United training this month; by Zohaib Alam/MUFC/Manchester UNITED via Getty Images)
