ISBN: 9798176882889 - football tactics by country: why the same game is thought differently in italy, the netherlands, england, germany, spain and south america (the evolution of football tactics, band 5) (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catenaccio was born in Switzerland, invented by an Austrian. England's long-ball game grew out of misread statistics. Spain's possession game was imported from the Netherlands.Almost nothing we believe about national football styles survives a closer look. Italians are not born defenders, Brazilians are not born dancers, and the English did not run because they could not think. Every tactical idea was born somewhere specific: on a certain kind of pitch, inside a league with certain rules and a certain calendar, in a country that trained its coaches one way and its teenagers another, with a certain amount of money in circulation.The fifth volume of The Evolution of Football TacticsVolume 1 told the story of the ideas. Volume 2 the evidence. Volume 3 the decisions of the ninety minutes. Volume 4 the players. This book asks where all of it came from, and follows each idea in three steps: what it was at home, what it became when it crossed a border, and what is left of it now that the game is global.- The schools that exported: Italy, where the country of catenaccio invented the most aggressive defending ever seen; the Netherlands and space as a national idea; England, the home of the long ball and of the first football data; Spain and possession as identity; Germany, the only country that decided to rebuild its football and succeeded- The schools copied without being understood: Portugal, a small league that exports coaches; Argentina, the street and the system; Brazil, the myth and the trade- The places changing the game now: France's academy factory, Belgium's written plan, Japan's imported game, the United States and a league designed as a product, and Africa, whose best players leave before a school can form them- How ideas travel: the coach as carrier, the league as filter, the academy as memory, and money as geography- What is left of local football, and why the next ideas will still have an addressEvery chapter closes with What to watch: how to recognise the signature of a place in a match you can see this weekend.This is not a book about national character. It is about pitches, rules, calendars, coaching schools, academies and money. No code, no formulas, no stereotypes. …