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Midfield Player, the Number ‘10’ Needed to Evolve and Play Elsewhere on the Pitch to Avoid a Defensive Player in Their Zone Soccer Tactics 2014 What The World Cup Taught Us Ray Power Published in 2014 by Bennion Kearny Limited. Copyright © Bennion Kearny Ltd 2014 Ray Power has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this book. ISBN: 978-1-909125-96-4 All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that it which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Bennion Kearny has endeavoured to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Bennion Kearny cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. Published by Bennion Kearny Limited 6 Woodside Churnet View Road Oakamoor ST10 3AE www.BennionKearny.com Academy Soccer Coach is a company that provides digital solutions for coaches at every level of the game. Our coaching software enables 1000's of coaches, clubs and professional organizations to plan and create their sessions remotely from anywhere in the world. Academy Soccer Coach works with following the professional clubs and organizations: Fulham FC, West Ham United FC, Stoke FC, Newcastle United FC, Crystal Palace FC, Burnley FC, The Portland Timbers, Sporting Kansas City, National Soccer Coaches Association of America, USSF Women's National Teams, The Irish Football Association, The Football Association of Ireland, The Professional Footballers Association, and many more. For more information please visit www.academysoccercoach.com On a personal note, we would like to wish Ray every success with his book and his continued growth and development as a coach. The ASC Team About Ray Power Ray Power is one of the bestselling football authors in the world. With over a decade of experience working in football and education, coaching players from non-league to Premier League levels, and internationally, he is the author of Making the Ball Roll, and the Deliberate Soccer Practice series. Ray is also the driving force behind his global Coach Mentor Programme @power_ray Some of Bennion Kearny’s Books See them all at: www.BennionKearny.com/soccer To Lisa – Your help and support means more than you'll ever know. Onto the next chapter. To Gracie and Georgia – Thank you for allowing me to take over the TV, laptop, and iPad for an entire month of the World Cup! Foreword Ray Power has done it again! Writing a quality, in-depth, easy-to-read book about football. Something that looks simple to do but which definitely is not. Football is sometimes like a painting of Van Gogh. From a distance you think you have seen the complete picture but the closer you get - the more detail you discover. Having been fortunate to have worked with Louis van Gaal at the Dutch KNVB and benefitting from his unbelievable attention to tactical detail, I was pleased to recognise a similar analytical attitude when reading this book. During my time at KNVB young Wesley Sneijder, Robin van Persie and Arjen Robben just came and played their game without bothering about tactics. Now, as established world class players, it is very different. With tactics, a fundamental is whether the Coach asks his players to play the way that suits his philosophy or whether he looks for a philosophy that suits his players. It’s a big question. To change the style of play in a country that has a particular culture ingrained can be very counterproductive but can also lead to World Cup success as the Spanish and German have proven over the last 10 years. Football will always be 11 v 11 wherever in the world we see a game but 1-4-4-2 is sometimes 1-4-4-1-1 and sometimes 1-4-3-1-2. 1-4-3-4 is sometimes 1-4-2-3-1 and sometimes 1-2-3-2-3. To the fans, it sometimes doesn’t make any difference. All they want to see is a fast game with lots of opportunities in and around the box, and a positive result. In reality tactics can make a significant difference on the pitch and for both coaches and players. Preparing your team and becoming aware of your opponents’ strategy and the ability to use the strengths of your players is key for success. In Soccer Tactics 2014 - Ray has dissected the World Cup 2014 tactics into specific detailed chapters. It was one of the best World Cups ever, especially due to the diversity of tactics, styles and philosophies, but also thanks to players like James Rodrigues, Arjen Robben, Thomas Muller and Lionel Messi with their exceptional individual qualities. Such players could only excel due to the philosophy and the way the coach had set up his team tactics. Ray has produced again a quality ‘must read’ book for all coaches interested in the modern game and the on-going development of football tactics. It is a great addition to his ‘Making The Ball Roll’ football handbook. I wish you an enjoyable read! Mark Wotte, Performance Director Scottish Football Association Table of Contents Introduction: Understanding Tactics 1 Chapter 1: Football Tactics and National Identity 7 Chapter 2: Systems, Players, and Opponents 23 Chapter 3: With Back Fours 43 Chapter 4: Back Threes and Fives 61 Chapter 5: Players, Players, Players 75 Chapter 6: Possession-Based Football 95 Chapter 7: Attack, Attack, Attack! 109 Chapter 8: A Case for the Defence 129 Chapter 9: Conclusion 149 Introduction: Understanding Tactics “As long as humanity exists something new will come along – otherwise football dies!” (Italian Football Coach and Tactician, Arrigo Sacchi) For those of us who love football tactics, the landscape of constantly changing styles of play over recent years has left us marvelling. We have looked at the dominant Spain and wondered how they dared to play such an expansive, tiki-taka game. We saw Greece’s organised, defensive method achieve glory at the European Championships in 2004 (almost the polar opposite of the tactical approach of the Iberians). We have looked at how Brazil’s approach has changed, how Italy has risen and fallen internationally, and wondered whether African or Asian teams could really adopt a way that would see them go all the way in a World Cup. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil gave the lovers of football tactics even more – and all within the space of 32 days! This tournament will become the backdrop for our analysis of modern football tactics. Evolution The only place to begin a book about soccer tactics is by using the above quote from Arrigo Sacchi. The central point in the Italian’s quote is about evolution. Every aspect of the world evolves as time passes, including football tactics. For example, look at how the role of the traditional ‘number 10’ has developed in recent years. Following the growth in the number of teams using a defensive midfield player, the number ‘10’ needed to evolve and play elsewhere on the pitch to avoid a defensive player in their zone. The types of players we would normally typecast as a number ‘10’ are now using their technical skills elsewhere on the pitch – the Brazilian Oscar spent much of this World Cup playing as a right-midfielder while Croatia’s Luca Modrić played as a deep-lying midfield player. Introduction We would also be foolish to think that certain tactics ‘die’. They do not. At best, they hibernate only to resurface again when other changes in the game allow them to. I remember a few years ago when candidates on my UEFA ‘A’ Licence course shunned the idea of playing with a back three and a sweeper as irrelevant in the modern game. But it has re-emerged in recent years and was a high profile approach at the 2014 World Cup. When discussing tactics in my first book - Making the Ball Roll - I felt it important to point out something I call the “numbers game”, and it is something I am keen to do here. The “Numbers Game” Throughout this book we will use lots of numbers – we are, after all, talking about football tactics – whether those numbers happen to be 4-2-3-1, 4-4-2, or 3-4-3. What we must realise, however, is that tactics are much, much more complex than a combination of numbers on a television screen or in our newspaper articles. Tactics, as so clearly explained by Jonathan Wilson in Inverting the Pyramid, are “a combination of formation and style” – so, they are a merging of the numbers we use to describe our formation, and the style of football we wish to implement. In addition, tactics are a combination of player strengths, movements, and real decisions taken during the real action of a football game. Using the numbers as a starting point, and a starting point only, gives you a general outline of a team’s shape, but all these shapes can vary. We could spend hours poring over whether Mexico played 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 or whether Cameroon’s formation against them was mainly 6-3-1 rather than the 4-3-3 set out on the pre- match team sheet.
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