Published in Road To Positional Success·Updated Jul 27Member-onlyThe Untruth Of Stylistic Purity Unravelled.Throughout the years, football society has placed managers and players into certain boxes, from the Van Gaals to the Peps through the Mourinhos and the Tuchels: For a balance to work, the equilibrium needs to find the right price, or else, the market crumbles. Football has reached a conondrum between…Football5 min readFootball5 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Jun 29Member-onlyRonald Koeman and the fallacy of misconceptions.Ronald Koeman and the fallacy of misconceptions. “Barça are living in the past, in the 4–3–3, in the tiki-taka. Football has changed. It’s now more physical, more rapid. You can’t live in the past. If you have Xavi and Iniesta…” Ronald Koeman’s tenure at F.C Barcelona ended in catastrophe, losing…Football4 min readFootball4 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Jun 24Member-onlyControlling the box: 9s and False Nines.Once upon a time, foxes in the box, killer instincts and insane ball-striking were the profiles in the box teams wanted. Suárez, Lewandowski, Ibrahimović, Vardy…a generation of forwards that remains unforgettable, for an impressiv goal-scoring record. The last years, however, introduced the idea of the omnipresent ‘false nine’, a player…Football5 min readFootball5 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·May 6Member-onlyControlling Talent. What?Talent and control, two keywords that Twitter’s algorithms often exposes to innocent eyes. Superficial tweets flow all over the football fan’s timeline. X is more talented than Y, but Y is a system player and X is only failing because of Z manager. Soon enough, Z manager is against a…4 min read4 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Mar 25Member-onlyWhat Is Patience In Football?Velocity, by human nature, attracts attention. Specifically in high-speed sports. The NBA franchise notably likes to have rapid transitions. As for football, fans tend to enjoy the likes of Mbappé, Vinicius Jr and Haaland above any other players: Speed is the driving motor of the fan’s ecstasy in front of…Fotball4 min readFotball4 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Mar 2Member-onlyTiming In Football, And Why The Best Are Always Ahead.The Elite always has time. The Busquets, The Kroos, The Cavanis and The Romeros; no matter the velocity of the play they evolve in, they always seem to have that one extra second. That one moment. Elite players always are those that seem to control time, despite it cannot be…Football4 min readFootball4 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Feb 4Tactics, Explained.“He’s been tactically outclassed. His tactics are bull-crap. We need a manager with better tactics. His game was tactically weak, he didn’t make any tactical changes at half-time. He doesn’t have the tactical genius. Even I’m a better tactician. We need elite tacticians. Even I have better tactics. …5 min read5 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Dec 30, 2021Control v Mayhem: Possession talk was the wrong debate all along.Possession, or counter-attack? Control, or chaos? Energetic football, or positional advantage? A lot of those questions have turned around the possession v non-possession debate — What if they debate the wrong debate all along? …5 min read5 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Dec 2, 2021Madrid’s victories convince and scare away.Adored outside of Madrid and doubted of inside the city, Carlo Ancelotti’s Real Madrid splits opinions. At the helm almost a decade year ago already, the Italian finds a new Madrid — and is rewriting its history, for the better or for the worse. …7 min read7 min read
Published in Road To Positional Success·Nov 15, 2021The importance of unity, ft La Roja.A couple. Boyfriend. Girlfriend. A perfect couple. Only one element could disturb destiny: An angry stepfather. Such is the story of Luis Enrique and La Roja, while Spanish media remain tumultuous when it comes to the undisturbed marriage. As if it was a dictatorship, Spain still has not accepted Luis…4 min read4 min read
