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W When France won the 1998 World Cup, she brought in interculturalism – which in football is an augmented reality – to the media's honor. At this World Cup, three of the four semifinalists had a significant number of players with mixed heritage, sons or grandsons of immigrants. This mix, this mix, is for football what poverty has always been: proof that the game discriminates itself based on the value of a player on the field, and not his social status – a real Meritocracy. The fact that the marginalized continue to find paradise in a game increasingly conditioned by money is not insignificant.
This is a relative conquest because the outlook on this phenomenon continues to carry the same prejudices as ever. When Brazil failed to win the tournament in 1950, the story that prevailed was the one that attributed that to the alleged impurity of their race. Eight years later, Didi, Garrincha, Pele, and the company have brilliantly won the World Cup in Sweden – which was, you can only assume, proof that the race could be cleansed in record time. Nowadays, depending on the score and depending on who is speaking, we say a lot (or think) the same things.
There is another more revealing message contained in the current sociological and cultural composition of the national teams. It's a purely football game. There was a time when the way football was played was similar to where it was played. The theory argued that we were playing as we were, and found a literary expression in Pasolini to whom we turned to hear about poetic football in South America and the prosaic football of the United States. Europe
. people and ideas are more and more mixed, fragmented identities. And yet, inside, identities survive and change: to take only the famous example, no one can deny that Pep Guardiola's teams play in verse, Diego Simeone in prose. I have no objection to that. I just want to point out that football continues to reflect the social pulsations, the heartbeat: there are also trends here. There are changes and challenges to ideas and ideals. We can not change anything.
Let's put this idea on the playing field, because the lands of Russia did not even respect the slightest glimmer of grandeur, whether it be national teams, players or players. 39, dominant ideas. It did not matter that Germany, Argentina, Portugal and Spain are moving away from the thunderous noise that surprises always provoke, opening a furious and bloody debate on their return home. .
The same day, the two Napoleonic world football leaders eliminated in one fell swoop – bye Messi and Ronaldo – and the World Cup did not care that their departure leaves a feeling of emptiness among fans of soccer. The greatest contempt for the established order, however, is the ruthless way in which Russia 2018 swept Germany and Spain, the last two winners of the World Cup and the , even more, representatives of a way to be, identity, which revolutionized the game, imposing an abusive domination of the ball over the last decade.
We came to the World Cup to enjoy, feel the excitement and embrace the emotion, to analyze the trends too, but the abrupt end Germany and Spain have left us puzzled because they are endangering something as important as the tiki-taka style that has conquered the last two World Cups and that has become an indicator of the extent of the match. This beautiful winning style has left the mediocrity exposed but he has always had his detractors and now they are dancing on his grave. They would be wrong to believe that she is definitely buried, but those of us who have adhered to an ideal that made the ball the heart of the game, the central point of everything, would be wrong even more forgetting his excesses and his faults. [19659004LetalentsertàfaireunevertudeviceLesjoueursayantdesdéficiencesnaturellesceuxquinepossèdentpaslesqualitésdontlesautressevantenttrouventdesmoyensoriginauxpourcacherleursdéfautsetainsienembrassantcesdéficiencesilséblouissentetdominentsouventDesjoueurstelsqueXaviAndrésIniestaPhilippLahmetToniKroosontéchappéàl'obsessionduphysiqueetdelatactiquedel'endroitoùlefootballsedirigeaitàl'endroitoùàenjugerparcequenousavonsvuenRussieAucontrairegrâceàunetechniqueexquisedecontrôleetdedépassementuneintelligenceetunecompréhensioninhabituellesdujeuilssontarrivésàdominer-àimposerleursupérioritéetmêmeéventuellementàenabuserIlestvraiqu'ILSL'ontfaitavecplusdepossessionquedebutsmaisleursadversairesontregrettédedevenirfootballeursquandilsontpassétoutlejeuaprèslebalEtàlafincesontlespropriétairesduballonquiontsoulevéletrophée
In Russia, this virtue became a vice and the tiki-taka became a caricature of itself. The goal has become to pass the ball, ignoring the existence of goal posts. As a writer who perfectly masters the language and who forgets what he means. The ball, used creatively, cunning and ingenuity, serves to distract and clear the way towards the goal of opposition. This requires criteria – an understanding of what you are trying to accomplish – and the ball needs to move quickly, in order to reach the last 30 meters of the field with a certain advantage. From there, to unbalance and defeat the opposition, you need the same tools as ever: a dribble, a one-two, imagination, precision to issue a pass and the Aggression in all its manifestations – speed, ambition, determination. from what happened in Russia, where tiki-taka became "tiki-tiki", turning Spain (71.3% of the balloon) and Germany (67.3%) ) in the victims of the teams who agreed to be much smaller 10 men in their own half. This World Cup has shown that for domination to be victorious, it takes bravery and confidence – which was precisely lacking in Germany and even more so in Spain. They were more concerned not to lose the ball, to play tedious passes to avoid counterattacks from their opponents, than to make their movements dangerous, accepting and accepting the risks, giving their movements the daring that the football has always had. I hate the idea of winning at any cost and in any way possible, so do not even talk about not losing at any cost and in any way. And yet, even with these reservations about the ugliness and wickedness that still threaten football, it is to their great honor that seemingly inferior national teams are rebelling against the great powers through heroic efforts and efforts. We should appreciate that. It's football too. And yet finally, Russia 2018 has not saved from defeat those who – like Sweden, Iceland and Russia themselves – were looking for an antidote to tiki-taka in a defensive and responsive play mode which offered little real joy.
Tiki-taka be taken to the workshop and check for malfunctions to prevent it from becoming an act of helplessness and uselessness that commits the worst of sins : to bore. The best mechanic to refine the engine and tighten the screws had a significant influence on Spain who won the World Cup in South Africa since Barcelona and had an influence on Germany winning the last Cup of the Munich World. He lives in Manchester, he is a bit crazy and called Pep Guardiola. If we are waiting for a way to revitalize this style with creative energy that can see football reborn, that's where it comes from. This would also be suitable for England, which is beginning to follow a promising path. To reach the end of this path, you need an almost fanatical faith in possession as a dogma. That's why a fool matters.
What the World Cup in Russia did was to consecrate the middle way. Teams that do not try to dominate for 90 minutes, or dig and wait deeply – the tactics we've come to know as "the bat", everyone hanging on their own crossbar. This particularly miserable approach seems to have disappeared, but also a feeling of greatness – a determination to pursue values, a vision, until the end.
Efficient pragmatic and eclectic teams, teams that opened and closed like an accordion, guided by the effort of everyone. Teams that felt more comfortable counter-attacking and who made set-ups – as exciting as dancing with their siblings – a crucial part of their game. Teams so pragmatic as to remove an attacker put a midfielder (or defender) as soon as they led, and did the opposite as soon as they dragged on. Colombia was the best example against England. They started with three defensive midfielders and one forward and ended up better with three forwards and a defensive midfielder.
Much of football was somewhat claustrophobic and very physical. The lack of space forces teams to play faster than many players are able to do. But it's not something you correct by running over; On the contrary, you correct it by improving your technique. From now on, anyone who does not have a technique at speed will struggle to survive at the highest level. The majority of games were tight, showing tremendous tactical awareness – the collective way in front of the individual. They also showed a level of effort that really moved (even the stars were generous with their sweat), and, let's be honest, a considerable amount of cunning and deviousness. Pragmatism must take advantage of everything it finds on its way to prosper.
It is worth analyzing an upcoming problem: the penalty areas are patrolled and controlled by the VAR – and in the region, the sentences are practically the prison terms – the mistakes will become preventative instead . They will be engaged in the demilitarized zones of the ground not supervised by the cameras, this territory where the VAR does not patrol and where the referees are more permissive. There will be more of these faults that tend to be called "tactics" or, with even greater cynicism, "clever". As football is a flowing game, it's worth asking how many goals are lost somewhere in the middle of the field as a result of these absolutely unsportsmanlike interruptions.
As the World Cup brought us this revolution of arbitration, It is advisable to remind the judicial police which manages the VAR and to the referees who abdicate the responsibility, to give it to the men sitting in front of the video screens, that their job remains the same as it has always been: protect the game and not become an accomplice to cheaters and cynics who think that they are smart. It's a reminder, a warning, that it's perhaps worth it to extend even stronger to players and coaches so that they take care of this wonderful game, the play without cheating and, if possible, honor it with beauty. then, to France who raised the trophy and, in doing so, like all the winners, draw a path that defines a trend that will last until the next World Cup.
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