David Winner once wrote for the Financial Times : “The more one knows about the 78 World Cup in Argentina, the more obvious it becomes, it should’ve never been played”. What happened? Back in 1976, a military coup brought a new administration to power, with Jorge Rafael Videla becoming president in 29th of March 1976….
We recently realized that many are unaware/confused about Pass Maps or interprete them in a completely wrong way. This article hence focuses on how to read a Pass Map, what it tells, and what it doesn’t tell and thus how to effectively use a great mathematical tool to interpret the beautiful game. To begin with,…
Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho. What do these two names remind you of? Maybe you could say a lot of trophies, silverware, titles etc. Sure. But the similarity ends right here. What about the differences? I would say, in simplest way- perfection and beauty vs pragmatism and cynicism. One believes in doing things the beautiful…
Juege de Posicion Juego de Posicion is a philosophy with fundamental idea being the search of superiority. “Positional Play does not consist of passing the ball horizontally, but something much more difficult: it consists of generating superiorities behind each line of pressure. It can be done more or less quickly, more or less vertically, more…
English football for all its marketing strategies and glamourous global appeal has failed to mention let alone recognise an Englishman whose contributions to the footballing world is much as any other revolutionary the sport has seen. Maybe not in terms of the magnitude but definitely in terms of ideals. We are talking about Vic Buckingham,…
“In possession, eleven men have to be in motion. Busy fine-tuning distances. It’s not a question of how much you run but where you run to.”-Johan Cruijff Symmetry is an overrated concept in football. Majority of people mistake shape and structure for symmetry. When one player is in possession of the ball, every other player…
Ingeniis varias ut arbitror distinguantur non summis in incurreret. Id veniam varias et vidisse. Do fugiat magna in proident. Aut possumus eruditionem in deserunt velit sed admodum comprehenderit id non cillum anim de appellat, ubi tamen singulis…
