About Us
Football Entangled
In a world of millions copying and competing with each other, Football Entangled competes with no one. The competition is irrelevant. We operate in a league of our own.
About Us
Football Entangled
In a world of millions copying and competing with each other, Football Entangled competes with no one. The competition is irrelevant. We operate in a league of our own.
What makes Football Entangled different?
We address the boundaries of human knowledge and bring it to the world of football. We get players results by understanding what truly makes world-class footballers and reverse engineering it back to you.
Nothing is off-limits. Everything is questioned. Nothing is assumed. Everything affects everything.
This is the problem that underlie most experts. They are unaware of the things they do not know about. They are so well-educated in their own respective field that they are sorely vulnerable to the things they never considered. They couldn’t comprehend how other fields of science could affect theirs because they were not educated to think in this way.
This phenomenon is explained by the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It explains how someone so well-educated in one field can overestimate their knowledge of other fields. This can lead to huge miscalculations in regard to the human body because of how interlaced Nature is.
The Dunning-Kruger effect refers to the finding that people who are relatively unskilled or unknowledgeable in a particular subject sometimes have the tendency to overestimate their knowledge and abilities.
David Dunning explains that “the knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task.” In other words, if someone knows very little about a particular topic, they may not even know enough about the topic to realize that their knowledge is limited.
Importantly, someone may be highly skilled in one area, but be susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect in another domain. This means that everyone can potentially be affected by the Dunning-Kruger effect. Dunning explains in an article for Pacific Standard that “it may be sorely tempting to think this doesn’t apply to you. But the problem of unrecognized ignorance is one that visits us all.” In other words, the Dunning-Kruger effect is something that can happen to anyone. (Source)
Another problem that is very common with modern medicine and sports science is this idea of treating the pain (the symptom). They are only capable of seeing the outward end result.
They don’t look for the cause. They don’t dig for the root cause which is commonly not within their field of research; so they ignore it. They only provide band-aids that keep customers coming back while their problems never truly go away.
Treating the root cause is the only way to fix problems. Improving the source is how you optimize everything else without having to micromanage every little detail.
Unlike most trainers, physios, sports scientists, doctors, and other experts I test everything against the realities of the Game which immediately shows what floats and what sinks. Most advice you will hear out there are from people who are not on the field seeing how their methods hold up against actual play. I call them the Armchair Athlete. How do you know any research is true if you don’t find out for yourself?
They use study after study to justify their position. They read something in a study and then consider it written in stone even if real-life events contradict it. They use the authority of their position to cover up the fact that they aren’t out there doing it. You’ll hear complicated words from the world of academia designed to confuse you and reinforce their authority. This is nothing more than manipulation.
My experience playing pro and collegiate football (soccer) combined with my formal education in accounting and business analytics allow me a certain aptitude for rational investigation. This gives me a lens from where I can separate the truth from the fluff. An eye to separate the marketing from the value because as you’ll find in life, things are not always as they seem
Why are you wasting your time and resources with all the other football trainers, coaches, nutritionists, and physical therapists?
I am a professional footballer who has overcome more than most. I've had many highs and many lows. Understand my story.
I’ve been the fat kid on the playground who got picked last and was afraid to take my shirt off at the beach. I’ve also been the kid who worked twice as hard as everyone else and still didn’t get better. I trained every day yet the kid who did whatever he wanted still was better.
I cut out junk foods and worked myself into the ground, but I still was in worse shape than the kids who ate Mcdonalds and played Xbox all night. I even was the guy that started losing his hair in high school and had a stutter.
I’ve been told that I just had bad genes and wasn’t naturally talented. I knew deep down that was nonsense. Only until recently have I put together the why and the how.
As I grew older and got into weightlifting (under the thinking that I needed to bulk up), I had injury after injury. When I was playing in Greece, I fractured my foot while jogging in the warmup. No one was around me. I heard a crack and that was that. I had surgery where they put a big screw in my 5th metatarsal. I came home to the US to go to college and play D1 Soccer.
6 months later, I fractured my foot again. This injury served as the foundation of my pain that drove me to question all I thought to be true because what I was doing was obviously not working.
3 years later, after winning a conference championship I tore my ACL. It was non-contact. No one touched me. This opened up a new level of pain and suffering that I never thought would happen to me. I was going to be out for a year. Another level was added to my experience that I used to guide my research into the human body and the failings of modern medicine.
12 months later, I was back playing. Before I knew it, I was out again. Niggling muscle and joint injuries after another kept me on the sidelines. I followed the advice of all my strength coaches and physical therapists, and it only got worse. No one had any solutions.
My comeback season was coming soon and my body wasn’t where I wanted it to be. Up to that point I had spent thousands of dollars trying different therapies and trainers all to no avail. I had spent so much money merely learning what didn’t work.
So my big season came and went. I didn’t play. A niggling hamstring injury ruined most of pre-season, and my teammates were doing so well, I was merely a backup. My body wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do. I had played at a much higher level in Europe before my injuries. I knew I was capable of so much more.
Mind you, I was the captain and normally a starter. I was also the older guy that everyone listened to in the locker room. I was the leader, but not playing.
I had spent almost two years preparing for that season. In the end. that season was harder than all my time out injured. More painful than two surgeries and multiple years of rehab were being left to the bench. What it meant deep down was that my recovery was not good enough, and I must go back to the drawing board yet again.
My past is an eternal story of success, failure, success, failure, and so on. A cycle of continual improvement that involved constant defeat. One step back, two steps forward.
Where am I now?
I am fascial-driven and glute dominant. I’ve rewired my previous muscle-driven tendencies and become much less quad dominant. It is like unlocking new parts of your body you didn’t know existed. I’ve made great strides in my muscle’s ability to relax which most people don’t even realize that are not good at.
I am lean and tan. I am now the first to take my shirt off on the beach. My body is on the path towards world-class athleticism and elite natural physique.
When I run and play football, I feel my hamstring, glutes, and abs whereas my whole life prior my calves and quads would burn all day. Even though I could always lift the most in the gym, it didn’t translate to anything helpful on the field and ironically made me more injury-prone. Now I am actually moving forward in my athleticism rather than just trying to keep my body in one piece.
I’ve suffered a lot, probably a bit more than my fair share. My body has taken a lot of hits. That’s what’s given me the impetus to figure all this out. I wish I knew all this at age 16 but I didn’t.
There’s a lot of damage I’ve had to undo and still am. For those who have yet to suffer as I have there is much progress that can be made by learning from my mistakes.
I’m striving on my own journey to overcome countless challenges and become a world-class footballer. I hope to help as many footballers as I can avoid the mistakes I made.
