Watford: What Effect Will the New Spanish Influx Have?
There was a time when most La Liga to English Premier League transfers could be mapped to the top six or seven clubs in England’s top tier. However, with their ever-increasing TV revenues, English teams from lower reaches in the table have also started attracting talent from the Spanish top tier over the last five-six years. During the 2015-16 season, Stoke City fans started calling their team Stokecelona, as their team had more La Masia graduates than Barcelona’s first team. …
Systems Football: Midfield Part IV – Tiki Taka / Totaal-Voetbal
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PLEASE FIND LINKS FOR PART I, PART II AND PART III AT END OF POSTIntroduction: the foundations (part 4/4*) – Midfield and Concluding Statement This is a four*-part series of articles that aims to introduce football coaches and fanatics to basic concepts in a systems football approach (such as tiki-taka). The systems approach to football is founded upon a system of complexity and unity. Part four of this series isolates the scenario of playing against …