Only now listened Nuno Gomes interview with proscout (sports firm in Portugal) in their podcast.

In total this pocast covered his youth formation, professional debut+career, coaching debut+xP, how he met Pauno and how he was "onboarded" in #ReadingFC

1/10
Its a long thread, but i will focus mainly on his xP as (assist) coach + #ReadingFC work.
I did find it very open with great insights about team/methods.

To contextualize, the time of this interview happened when Reading had 4W in the first 4 games of the #Championship

2/10
*Nuno Gomes*

1) international by 🇵🇹 in youth teams (won U16 Europe championship in 1995)
2) Took UEFA coaching levels during the course of this football career.
3) Started assistant coaching 1week after after finishing his career in Cypurs in the same club.

3/10
*How he met Paunovic*

1) Nuno Gomes had an "internship" in ChicagoFire for 10d and after 3/4days he was contacted to stay there at Pauno request.
2) After MLS season is over, Nuno Gomes returns to Portugal to join a II league team in 🇵🇹

4/10
*start in #ReadingFC*

1) Pauno contacted Nuno when the squad was 1week in Algarve to join them
2) Objectives for the team: peaceful season + increase young players value for selling/revenue purposes
3) Handicap: Not possible to buy players due to financial restrictions

5/10
*game idea for ReadingFC*

1) change slowly the "chip" from direct game (typical in England) to ball possession style.
2) clinging dead ball situations.

6/10
*game prep*

1) 2 days to correct situations from previous game
2) how to attack the opponent (covering how they defend)
3) how to defend against the opponent
4) in short weeks (week with 2 games), focus is more to analyse opponent for the team knows what to expect

7/10
*Training*

1) Lots of video analysis from opponents + squad
2) 2-3 days of the week spent with squad to show them the good and bad decisions from previous game
3) analysis of the 5 decision moments of the game: Off/Def organization, Off/Def transitions and dead ball situations
4) Oshea coaches CB; Mitrovic coaches LB/RB; Nuno Gomes coaches defensive midfield, Fortune coaches strikers.

* * * * * *
Its clear Paunovic when joined #readingfc already knew on what he was getting into, after a quiet market window.
So his answers are in line with this.

9/10
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