Edgar Morin’s influence on Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho: How complexity theory is shaping football coaching
“The concept of tactical periodisation – often simplified, ironically, as incorporating the physical training alongside the technical and tactical – is closely associated with Vitor Frade in Porto. Mourinho introduced similar methods to English football with Chelsea.
Caldeira sees all this as strands of the same idea. Starting with Morin. “Vitor Frade was influenced by Edgar Morin. It was a mixture of his experience as a fitness coach and the theoretical ideas of complexity. It is the common background of everyone” he says.
“Luis Castro was influenced by Frade. Jose Mourinho and Marco Silva are closer to the ideas of the University of Lisbon, influenced by a very important professor there called Manuel Sergio.” Mourinho paid tribute to him when he passed away earlier this year.”
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