The document summarizes a clip from the 1999 movie 'Any Given Sunday' where Al Pacino delivers an inspirational speech as a football coach. The summary discusses how Pacino captures his audience's attention from the beginning, uses key words about fighting as a team, speaks with passion and confidence, and delivers a message about achieving success through teamwork and sacrifice.
The document summarizes a clip from the 1999 movie 'Any Given Sunday' where Al Pacino delivers an inspirational speech as a football coach. The summary discusses how Pacino captures his audience's attention from the beginning, uses key words about fighting as a team, speaks with passion and confidence, and delivers a message about achieving success through teamwork and sacrifice.
The document summarizes a clip from the 1999 movie 'Any Given Sunday' where Al Pacino delivers an inspirational speech as a football coach. The summary discusses how Pacino captures his audience's attention from the beginning, uses key words about fighting as a team, speaks with passion and confidence, and delivers a message about achieving success through teamwork and sacrifice.
The document summarizes a clip from the 1999 movie 'Any Given Sunday' where Al Pacino delivers an inspirational speech as a football coach. The summary discusses how Pacino captures his audience's attention from the beginning, uses key words about fighting as a team, speaks with passion and confidence, and delivers a message about achieving success through teamwork and sacrifice.
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UEFA A
Module 5
Mick White
1 UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White Task
Find a clip of a great communicator (maximum 3 minutes), ideally
from sports. It could be a movie or a real clip, and comment on his way of communication and how his mode of communication is effective in terms of
o How and why he captures his audience,
o Which are the key words he uses, o His tone of voice and body language, o The real message.
UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White
Movie Clip I chose the ‘Inch by Inch’ speech by Al Pacino from the 1999 movie, ‘Any Given Sunday.’
It is a NFL based film where Pacino plays an aging
coach, Tony D’Amato. It is a speech that even people not interested in American football like it as describes the struggles not just in sport but in life.
UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White
Any Given Sunday:
UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White
How and why he captures his audience D’Amato’s opening ‘I don’t know what to lines has every say..... really. 3 minutes to the person in the biggest battle of our room focused on professional lives all him. His words get comes down to today. everyone’s Either we heal as a attention from the team or we are going first moment. to crumble.’
UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White
Which are the key words he uses? D’Amato’s key words are to give the ownership to the players. He uses words like Fight, Team, togetherness, Inch by Inch, Play by Play. ‘You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game life or football the margin for error is so small.’ UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White His tone of voice and body language Tony D’Amato’s voice ‘On this team, we fight & body language for that inch. On this portrays a team, we tear confidence in his ourselves, and player’s ability to everyone around us to achieve success. He pieces for that inch. shows passion and We CLAW with our drive that they can finger nails for that relate to. inch.’
UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White
The Real Message The real message from this speech is how we look at each other to achieve as an individual and as a team. How we can overcome anything with the right attitude. ‘Now I can’t make you do it. You gotta look at the guy next to you who will go that inch with you. You are going to see a guy who will sacrifice himself for his team because he knows when it comes down to it, you are gonna do the same thing for him.’ UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White UEFA A Module 5 – Mick White
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