Game Day

Videos to help H.P. on his soccer journey with Dianella White Eagles SC.

1. DEFENCE
2. Will John ‘Top Five Defending Secrets’
3. Will John ‘Five Basic Defending Secrets’
4. Will John ‘Five Ways To Win Every Tackle’
5. Unisport ‘Seven Defender Tips To Make Strikers Fear You’
6. Unisport ‘How To Be An Attacker’s Worst Nightmare’
7. Football Meta ‘The Ultimate Guide To Defending’
8. Football Meta ‘The Vital Importance Of Ball-Playing Centre Backs’
9. MitsoJR ‘How To Play As A Center Back? Tips To Be A Successful Center Back’
10. Maldini 3 ‘Paolo Maldini: 1v1 Defending From The Front’
11. Maldini 3 ‘Paolo Maldini: 1v1 Defending From Behind’
12. Maldini 3 ‘Paolo Maldini: Defending Wide Areas’
13. Keepitonthedeck ‘Paolo Maldini Analysis – 1v1 Defensive Stance’
14. Vintage Footy ‘An Honest Review Of 39 Year Old Maldini At Left Back’
15. Vintage Footy ‘Maldini’s Passing Does Not Get Talked About Enough’
16. Vintage Footy ‘Italian Catenaccio: Defensive Masterclass’
17. Maldini 3 ‘The Best 3’
18. Zinedine Zidane 10 ‘No One Has Matched Maldini’s Defending Skills So Far’


19. ATTACK & GENERAL
20. Howard Chang ‘Soccer Basics – Positioning And Movement’
21. Howard Chang ‘Attacking Basics – All Parts’ N.B. I have downloaded the individual parts to my laptop.
22. Kreider Academy ‘The Ultimate Guide To Shooting With Power And Accuracy In Football’
23. Kreider Academy ‘Master The Ping Using This Technique’
25. Kreider Academy ‘Low Driven Pass Perfection’

Bresson

Anything we do reveals us. The same soul of Caesar’s which displayed herself in ordering and arranging the battle of Pharsalia is also displayed when arranging his idle and amorous affrays. You judge a horse not only by seeing its paces on a race-track but by seeing it walk—indeed, by seeing it in its stable.

—Montaigne, Essays I:50

We do not command our hair to stand on end with fear nor our flesh to quiver with desire. Our hands often go where we do not tell them; our tongues can fail, our voices congeal, when they want to.

—Montaigne, Essays I:21

I am not made for novels or plays. Their grand scenes, rages, passions, tragic moments, far from exciting me, strike me as cheap outbursts, rudimentary states in which all kinds of stupidity are let loose, where the human being is simplified to the point of foolishness and drowns instead of swimming in the waters of circumstance.

—Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste

Montaigne quotations from The Complete Essays (Penguin, 1993); Paul Valéry quotation from Monsieur Teste (New York Review Books, 2025).

The Bush Of Ghosts

And they put forth an ill report to the Israelites of the land that they had scouted, saying, “The land through which we passed to scout is a land that consumes those who dwell in it, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of huge measure. And there did we see the Nephilim, sons of the giant from the Nephilim, and we were in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and so were we in their eyes.”

—Numbers 13:32-33

Verse from R. Alter’s Hebrew Bible (Norton, 2019).

Shared World

And the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth and they left off building the city. Therefore it is called Babel, for there the Lord made the language of all the earth babble. And from there the Lord scattered them over all the earth.

—Genesis 11:8-9

Verses from R. Alter’s Hebrew Bible (Norton, 2019).

Earth

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with twelve stars on her head for a crown. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.

—Revelation 12:1-2

So the serpent vomited water from his mouth, like a river, after the woman, to sweep her away in the current, but the earth came to her rescue; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river thrown up by the dragon's jaws.

—Revelation 12:15-16

Verses from The Jerusalem Bible (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1968).

Idolatry