{"id":27280,"date":"2014-06-09T21:40:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T21:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-to-nerd-out-about-soccer\/"},"modified":"2014-06-09T21:40:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T21:40:46","slug":"how-to-nerd-out-about-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-to-nerd-out-about-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to nerd out about soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bonus.kottke.org\/post\/88289507773\/how-to-nerd-out-about-soccer\">jkottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From Grantland\u2019s Mike Goodman, <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/how-to-watch-the-world-cup-like-a-true-soccer-nerd\/\">a guide to nerding out about soccer<\/a>, using the language already spoken by American sports nerds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What exactly is a good shot in soccer? The nascent field of soccer analytics is hard at work trying to figure that out. It won\u2019t surprise anybody to learn that closer is better, and using your feet is much, much better than using your head. So, much like getting into the lane is of paramount importance in basketball, getting the ball at your feet in front of the goal is just about the best thing you can do in soccer. Getting to the byline (baseline) in the corner of the penalty areas (like where Maicon was in the above video) is a hot destination. That\u2019s where you can cut the ball back for a teammate to have one of those coveted close shots. Hey, look at that &#8211; it\u2019s like basketball again: Get to the goal or get to the corners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jkottke: From Grantland\u2019s Mike Goodman, a guide to nerding out about soccer, using the language already spoken by American sports nerds. What exactly is a good shot in soccer? The nascent field of soccer analytics is hard at work trying to figure that out. It won\u2019t surprise anybody to learn that closer is better, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-760","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}