Progressão is a book, a podcast, and a long-term thinking project focused on football, learning, and skilful human behaviour. Our work approaches football from a complex, holistic, and ecological perspective, where players and all football actors are understood as living beings always in correspondence with their environment.
#214 Messi’s tango, Neymar’s samba, and the dance we haven’t found yet
Put Neymar on one screen and Messi on the other. Play samba under the Brazilian and tango under the Argentine, and then sit back and watch, and something in you knows, immediately, without being able to say exactly how you know, that this is true. That the dance is not beside the football. The dance is inside the football. It has always been there. What does it mean that a man carries his culture in his body without knowing it? That a child in Rio learns a way of moving that is not in a...
13 Oct 2026
#213 Sixty concepts for one word: a scoping review of football skill research
Four thousand papers. Eighty-three studies. Sixty concepts for the same word. A few years ago we started asking a question. What does research on football skill-related interventions look like. What theories does it rest on. What players does it study. Where in the world does it happen. And where are the gaps. The answer came out as a paper called Skill-related studies from youth to high-performance football: a scoping review. Published in 2023. In this episode, the mapping that came out of t...
6 Oct 2026
#212 Tigers don't live in chaos: reading the leaves, the sounds, the wind
Football has chaotic moments. Watching them, a coach might think the training needs more chaos too. Fair enough. But what is chaos. The word has slipped into coaching conversations. It is a technical term. However, it does not mean what we think it means. Tuomas Iisalo once said the game is a jungle and a zoo. The training too often is the zoo. The game is the jungle. But a jungle is not chaos. The tiger reads the leaves, the sounds, the wind. A tiger that lived in chaos would not last a week...
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