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2011/2012 – etapa 5 – discutie deschisa

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Vă aştept gândurile, ranturile sau întrebările pe marginea celei de-a cincea etape din Anglia. United o primeşte pe Chelsea pe Old Trafford duminică de la 18:00. Villas Boas a fost relaxat vineri, încrezător că nu va fi judecat atât de devreme, dar fapt e că Rooney de unul singur are mai multe goluri decât „albastrii”.

Dar înainte de asta, luaţi-vă 10 minute pentru discursul lui Pep Guardiola de la ceremonia în care a fost decorat de Parlamentul Catalan. Oameni ca el sunt „sarea pământului şi lumina lumii”.

Villas-Boas despre spatii, verticalizare si posesie

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Telegraph-ul a pus mâna pe un interviu de mare excepţie în care Villas-Boas discută despre tactică. Luat acum 2 ani de asistentul actual al portughezului, materialul e cu adevărat un knowledge-bomb, cum bine zice cineva la comentarii.

There are more spaces in football than people think. Even if you play against a low block team, you immediately get half of the pitch.

And after that, in attacking midfield, you can provoke the opponent with the ball, provoke him to move forward or sideways and open up a space. But many players can’t understand the game.

They can’t think about or read the game. Things have become too easy for football players: high salaries, a good life, with a maximum of five hours work a day and so they can’t concentrate, can’t think about the game.

Barcelona’s players are completely the opposite. Their players are permanently thinking about the game, about their movement, about how to provoke their opponent with the position of the ball.

Sursa foto: Flickr, micheldf.

Fantasy Premier League 2011-2012

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Chaps and lasses, vă aştept şi anul ăsta să ne batem în fotbal fantastic. You know the drill: codul diviziei anglofile e 1359456-308462, daţi un join când aveţi timp. And so it begins…

Vă las cu nişte imagini din Londra ultimelor zile. Încă nu reuşesc să înţeleg cum a fost posibil aşa ceva întru-un oraş în care pentru orice îmbrânceală vin două maşini de poliţie şi un elicopter…

Despre cum ne-au furat fotbalul

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Vă recomand un interviu grozav din El Pais cu Cesar “Flaco” Menotti, unul din ultimii gânditori adevăraţi din fotbal. Câteva antreuri cât să vă fac poftă:

Despre politicieni, un paragraf care loveşte too close to home:

And the first thing they’ve done is to rob people the sense of belonging. Everything is theirs, including football. When the governor makes a street, it looks like he was the one who paid it from his own pocket. We were robbed the music, the parks, the squares and even football. And now they get surprised about people getting tired who end up camping in the squares.

Despre pierderea unei anumite culturi a fotbalului:

When I say that the Argentinian football suffered disculturization, I don’t talk about people reading Borges before. The culture of football was that, when I passed a bad ball, the other 10 players looked at you. I remember that, once, I was going to kick a side foul, all the team was up in the rival’s box, and I had to hang the ball. In the wall, there was just one player and I hit him. During one month, they were with the damn jokes: “If there’s a free kick, let Menotti kick it”.

Despre intalnirea cu Guardiola de acum câţiva ani:

There was something that made him different: He came here with a clear idea, he didn’t came to me like others, looking for inspiration, waiting for me to tell them the way to go as if I were a Messiah… He came with his idea and left with his idea. I was tired of talking with young coaches who come looking for the truth. Pep did not come looking for an answer. He already knew it.