Strategy report · Updated Jul 29, 2026
What's working for @samir.norestani on Instagram.
SAMIR NORESTANI
18.1K followers · 77 posts
“Dm: Kooperation🤝🏽 ⚽️| Tik tok : Samir.norestani⬇️ 🎥| YouTube: Samir.norestani⬇️”
Engagement rate
164.87%
Per post, last 90 days
Posts per week
0.9
Niche avg 3.0
Average likes
29.8K
96 avg comments
Post mix
Last 90 days · 77 posts indexed
01
Top-performing posts
The three posts pulling the most engagement in the last 90 days.
reel 2383.80% engagedWhat Position do You Play? #viralreels #football #footballer #viralvideos #training #virals #fußball #fy #foryou #fyp
reel 659.53% engagedFirst Touch⚽️⚡️ #viralreels #football #foryou #training #fyp
reel 502.40% engaged5 effective skills for wingers⚽️⚡️ #fyp #football #viralreels #foryou #skills
02
Content pillars
AI-clustered themes the account posts about, with example posts pulled live from Instagram.
03
Posting rhythm
Cadence and timing patterns over the last 12 weeks.
0.9 posts/week
Niche benchmark · 3.0/week
Best days
Thursday · Friday · Sunday
Best hours
6-9am · 5-7pm
04
Signature hooks
Caption patterns the account reuses across high-performing posts.
[X] effective skills for wingers
Used 5×
5 effective skills for wingers⚽️⚡️
4 effective skills for wingers⚽️🥷🏽
5.effektive skills for wingers⚽️⚡️
First Touch [context]
Used 3×
First Touch⚽️⚡️
First Touch around the defender😤
Frist Touch⚽️⚡️
Do This [frequency] to [skill benefit]
Used 2×
Do This once a day to develop your Touch⚽️
Save for later📈✅use this session to improve your weakfoot
[X] [Drill Type] Drills⚽️
Used 3×
5 simple Ball mastery Drills🔥⚽️
3 quick Feet Drills⚽️💪🏽
LATERAL QUICK FEET DRILL 🔥FOR FOOTBALLERS
What [question]? (audience interaction)
Used 2×
What Position do You Play?
who am I?👀⚽️
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Strategy summary
What's working, what to fix, and what to ship next.
TL;DR
The single biggest lever on this account is the "X effective skills for wingers" format. Posts 6, 13, 16, and 12 combined for over 200,000 likes using a near-identical title structure, and post 6 alone reached 90,901 likes posted on a Tuesday. The formula is proven and underused at current cadence. Running it once a week, consistently, would compound the account's reach faster than any other change.
The biggest leak is posting frequency. At 0.9 posts per week the account is operating at roughly 30% of the healthy benchmark for this niche. Every gap in the feed is a gap in algorithmic momentum. The vlog pillar (posts 21, 22, 28) averages under 350 likes and dilutes the feed's identity without serving the football audience. Sponsored posts (posts 0, 3, 7) show the same pattern, averaging well below 7,000 likes even when the content is football-adjacent.
Post 18 is the clearest outlier at 429,438 likes, driven by a single audience question with no production overhead. That format has been used only once. Replicating it monthly as a low-effort engagement reset, alongside 3 to 4 skill reels per week, would close the cadence gap and protect the account's reach ceiling.
Working
4- The "X effective skills for wingers" format reliably generates 20,000 to 90,000+ likes and should anchor the weekly content plan.
- Audience question hooks like "What Position do You Play?" (post 18) drive outsized engagement with minimal production cost.
- First Touch content (posts 1 and 5) consistently outperforms average, confirming technical tutorials resonate with the core audience.
- Short numbered drill formats give viewers a reason to save and rewatch, which signals quality to the algorithm.
Risks
5- Cadence is the primary problem. The account posts 0.9 times per week against a niche benchmark of 3, cutting reach potential by more than half.
- Vlog and lifestyle content (posts 21, 22, 28) averages under 350 likes and should be cut or moved to Stories instead of the main feed.
- Sponsored posts are placed without a content buffer, so a low-performing ad lands with no momentum post before or after it.
- Hook variety inside the skills format is thin. Rotating the angle, such as "skills defenders hate" or "skills that work in real matches," can extend the format's lifespan.
- Posting times are scattered. There is no consistent day or hour pattern, which makes it harder to build an audience habit around the account.
Ship next
5- Increase to 3 reels per week immediately: one winger skills post, one drill or touch tutorial, and one engagement question post per cycle.
- Batch film 4 to 6 "X skills for wingers" variations in one session to build a content buffer that removes the cadence bottleneck.
- Move Ramadan and personal vlogs to Stories so feed content stays football-focused and consistent.
- Schedule all posts between 6am and 9am or 5pm and 7pm on Thursdays, Fridays, or Sundays to align with peak football audience activity.
- Test one audience-question reel per month modeled on post 18 to generate comment volume and algorithmic boosts at low production cost.
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