Jul 13, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
Football matches are rarely won or lost in the first 80 minutes. They're often decided in the final 10. Not because players suddenly become worse. But because the workflow that sustained performance…
Paulin KantueHost
I think the last couple of weeks at the Football World Cup has really vexed me in so many ways because not so much about the football.
There's been controversy and that's why we love the World Cup, right? I think I was speaking to a friend of mine this morning.
We love the World Cup because of the controversy and because of the... you know human error that really gets us you know and of course people playing are playing for their nations and it's you know across the world it's a global stage it's unlike the olympics it's not separate nations kind of doing their own thing in their own way it's everybody trying to get to that one prize of recognition that the global world is watching you know five six billion people watching and of course the game in itself is incredibly incredibly important but We're going to be referring to a specific story of the World Cup.
A couple of weeks ago, or a couple of days ago, maybe not two weeks, a couple of days ago, Egypt lost 2-0.
For most of the game, it was clear, you know, what they were doing, what the game plan was.
But from a workflow perspective, from a systems thinking perspective, it seemed like it was stable.
And for some reason, almost out of nothing, one would say, if you haven't watched the game for 80 minutes and you come in the last 10, 15 minutes, you would have thought, why is this team so bad? When in actual fact, they were really under control for the most part of the game.
And all of a sudden, it seems that due to fatigue increasing, due to technical adjustments being made, The risk appetite to want to just stand back and have a low block and just defend because you see in the finish line.
And the time and the time pressure that intensifies, all of a sudden, you think that is the story.
But to be honest with you, in actual fact, if you were to really look at it from a workflow perspective, there is an underlying premise.
I think the last couple of weeks at the Football World Cup has really vexed me in so many ways because not so much about the football.
There's been controversy and that's why we love the World Cup, right? I think I was speaking to a friend of mine this morning.
We love the World Cup because of the controversy and because of the... you know human error that really gets us you know and of course people playing are playing for their nations and it's you know across the world it's a global stage it's unlike the olympics it's not separate nations kind of doing their own thing in their own way it's everybody trying to get to that one prize of recognition that the global world is watching you know five six billion people watching and of course the game in itself is incredibly incredibly important but We're going to be referring to a specific story of the World Cup.
A couple of weeks ago, or a couple of days ago, maybe not two weeks, a couple of days ago, Egypt lost 2-0.
For most of the game, it was clear, you know, what they were doing, what the game plan was.
But from a workflow perspective, from a systems thinking perspective, it seemed like it was stable.
And for some reason, almost out of nothing, one would say, if you haven't watched the game for 80 minutes and you come in the last 10, 15 minutes, you would have thought, why is this team so bad? When in actual fact, they were really under control for the most part of the game.
And all of a sudden, it seems that due to fatigue increasing, due to technical adjustments being made, The risk appetite to want to just stand back and have a low block and just defend because you see in the finish line.
And the time and the time pressure that intensifies, all of a sudden, you think that is the story.
But to be honest with you, in actual fact, if you were to really look at it from a workflow perspective, there is an underlying premise.
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