Over the past couple of weeks, Total Football Analysis has brought out in-depth player analysis articles on two of the best up-and-coming holding midfielders in the world today: Aleksandar Pavlović at Bayern Munich and Chema Andrés at VfB Stuttgart. Aged 21 and 20 years old, respectively, the pair of midfielders...
Red Bull Salzburg are currently enjoying the welcome distraction of the lucrative FIFA Club World Cup, which comes off the back end of another disappointing season for the club in domestic and European competitions. For the first time since the Red Bull takeover in 2005, Salzburg have gone back-to-back years...
RB Leipzig are one of the most controversial clubs in German football history. Founded in 2009, the club bought itself into the Oberliga, the fifth tier of German football. From then on, Red Bull invested heavily in the club to get it promoted to the Bundesliga. RB Leipzig have been...
The news of Jürgen Klopp’s impending return to football was met with mixed reactions, as it was unveiled that he’s set to take on a new role as Head of Global Soccer with Red Bull. Since first entering the football world when they bought SV Austria Salzburg in 2005, Red...
The news of Jürgen Klopp’s impending return to football was met with mixed reactions, as it was unveiled that he’s set to take on a new role as Head of Global Soccer with Red Bull. Since first entering the football world when they bought SV Austria Salzburg in 2005, Red...
Recruitment strategies vary a lot from club to club and league to league. Aspects like financial resources, league competition, club philosophy, and ambitions all affect football clubs' youth recruitment strategies. This data analysis looks closely at why each club is doing what it is doing, how these strategies fit in...
Austrian football was different 20 years ago. Rapid Wien and FK Austria Wien, the two most prominent clubs in the country’s capital, have been consistently battling it out to win the Austrian Bundesliga title for years. SK Rapid Wien has won the most titles in the league to date, with 32 championships in...
It would be unfair to judge Marco Rose's RB Leipzig solely based on some past defeats. As the team's new German manager, he took over in September after Domenico Tedesco's firing. They sit in fifth place in the Bundesliga, trailing Freiburg by just two points, and have a shot at...
Any football club with Red Bull connections commonly connotes the power of youth in the sport. Whether young players or up-and-coming managers, they are ready to display their reinvention and youthful outlook on the footballing landscape. RB Leipzig in Germany is at the top of the Red Bull hierarchy, but...
The Red Bull network of clubs has had a well-deserved reputation for having good structures and systems in place to ensure that any vacancies in the coaching or playing staff are filled quickly and with the right personnel. Their scouting operation is the envy of many clubs - you will...
The 52-year-old German coach Thomas Letsch is very much a part of the new breed of football coaches. He has secured opportunities in first-team settings without ever playing the game professionally. That does not mean, however, that his current position as head coach of Vitesse Arnhem in the Dutch Eredivisie...
Peter Zeidler, who is now the head coach at St. Gallen in Switzerland, and Gerhard Struber, who has been the head coach of Barnsley in the EFL Championship since, are the only two coaches who have worked at FC Liefering, the second team of RB Salzburg, in recent years. Oliver...
