Seok Lim - Football Agent Lab

Gert Engels, German coach, in a black coaching jacket with both arms raised and laughing, celebrating a result on a Japanese football pitch.

Interview

A Dog on a Leash Won't Catch a Rabbit — An Interview with Gert Engels

A J.League founder-era coach. Park Ji-sung's first head coach. Borussia Mönchengladbach golden-era graduate. Vissel Kobe with Iniesta. Mozambique national team. Sixty-nine, between roles, and unmistakably still drawn to the pitch.

Modelos

Open the flank, send seven on the diagonal — inside Reinerio Márquez's game model

FAL Playbook · Modelos Eleven minutes. That’s the length of a video in which a South-American coach sits alone in front of a camera and lays out his game model. No interviewer, no question sheet, no whiteboard. He simply takes the picture of football in his head and pulls it

Marco Gracia, Chilean head coach, in a black Herrera FC shirt and CONCACAF lanyard, raising his arm to communicate with a player from the touchline.

Interview

Structured Freedom — Marco Gracia on the Football He Is Building

A Chilean coach with UEFA A from Scotland, UEFA B from Germany, and CONMEBOL A from South America. Author of Neurofútbol. Marco Gracia on coaching as cognition — and on building an identity that is structured, but never rigid.

Norris Ng, Hong Kong football coach and performance analyst, in a yellow Tai Po FC training jacket directing players from the touchline during an AFC Champions League Two match.

Interview

Norris Ng — Hong Kong Football's One-Man Backroom

Hong Kong football's quiet multidisciplinarian. Across two clubs and four league titles, Norris Ng has carried strength and conditioning, performance analysis, and the assistant coach's bench all at the same time — and would rather not be in the spotlight at all.

Riedoh Berdien, South African strength and conditioning coach, leading a Mali National Team training session with cones and hurdles on the pitch.

Interview

Fitness Is Never Trained in Isolation — Riedoh Berdien's TAC-TEC Methodology

South African strength and conditioning coach Riedoh Berdien — across two decades, four federations, and a dozen clubs — on the TAC-TEC method, the chasers and hunters of the modern press, and why a young African dreams of the K League.

Luiz Greco, Brazilian football director, in a dark suit with arms crossed, before a blue FIFA-style institutional backdrop.

Interview

The Eye Behind the Transfer — Forty Years of Luiz Greco's Method

Forty years across Brazil, Ukraine, Spain, Fiji, Japan, and India. Over €110 million in net transfer profit at Shakhtar Donetsk on three signings alone. Luiz Greco on the eye behind the transfer — and what data still cannot replace.

Marco Ragini, head coach of the Tajikistan U17 and U20 national teams during the 2024–25 cycle

Interview

Past the Final Whistle — What Marco Ragini Leaves Behind

Twenty-eight years, fourteen countries, three continents. Marco Ragini on legacy as a coaching principle, the FIFA U17 World Cup that put Tajikistan on the map, and what comes next.

Interview

I Am Demanding Because I Care

A Dutch football architect on academies, attacking principles, and why being demanding and being empathetic are the same thing. From Feyenoord to Riyadh, by way of Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich.

Interview

You Are Only as Good as Your Decisions

From Montevideo to Riyadh, by way of Brighton, Sunderland, and a domestic double in Korea. Gus Poyet on positioning, decision-making, and what twenty years on the touchline have taught him.