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David Findlay

Football in Amsterdam: Ajax Dominance, Defunct Clubs, and the Lost Derby

24 March 202620 March 2026 by David Findlay
football teams from amsterdam

Amsterdam once supported four professional football clubs. Now only Ajax remains, leaving the Amsterdam derby as a relic and the city’s football culture defined by a single institution.

Categories Culture

What Is Stat Padding? Definition, Examples and How to Identify It

29 March 202620 March 2026 by David Findlay
soccer

Stat padding accusations follow elite scorers across every sport, but proving intent requires more than suspicion. Learn how opponent-adjusted metrics and leverage analysis reveal whether volume reflects dominance or selective opportunism.

Categories Performance

How Is Data Collected in Football? Methods, Accuracy & Sources

24 March 202620 March 2026 by David Findlay
key performance indicators football

Football data collection transforms millions of live match events into structured insights, but most clubs and analysts still misunderstand where their numbers actually come from.

Categories Data & Systems

Football Player Development Tracking App: Top 5 Reviewed

19 March 2026 by David Findlay
football player development tracking app

Five tools, five very different capture environments. Find out which football player development tracking app your staff will actually use beyond the first month of deployment.

Categories Development

Youth Player Development Plan Football: 7 Essential Steps

19 March 2026 by David Findlay
youth player development plan football

Most youth player development plans are filed and forgotten. This framework shows how to build one that coaches open before training, not after review day.

Categories Development

3-5-2 Formation: The Complete Tactical Breakdown

24 March 202618 March 2026 by David Findlay
3-5-2 Formation

The 3-5-2 formation promises central dominance and attacking width, but its structural success depends almost entirely on wing-back work rate and how well the press holds under transition pressure.

Categories Tactics

2-5-3 Football Formation: The Complete Tactical Breakdown

18 March 2026 by David Findlay
2-5-3 football formation 2-5-3 Football Formation

The 2-5-3 looks like an experiment on a tactics board. On the pitch, it is one of the most positionally demanding systems a coaching team can build, relying on midfield discipline and collective transition defence that most squads cannot sustain without structural preparation and deliberate squad selection. By David Findlay, Founder of KiqIQ. Quick Answer: … Read more

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