The story of football is as much of people and places as it is of how the game is played or the formations used. In recent memory, when Inter Milan won the semi finals of Champions League against Barcelona, Jose Mourinho talked about how he taught Inter to play without the ball because Barcelona would almost never give up possession. Each of these techniques came up in response to some earlier development. So are concepts like switching positions, pressing opponents and retaining possession no matter what. Even this concept has evolved as a technique at some point of time in the footballing history. But it has not always been considered so. Passing the ball to a team-mate sounds very basic and intuitive part of the game today. … one of the founding fathers of the game felt it necessary to explain to others that if one of their team-mates were charging head-down at goal, it might be a good idea to go and help him – although expecting to receive the ball volitionally seems to have been a step too far. On how the early players operated, Wilson writes, However, it isn’t just the formation that is important.
The entire tactical evolution of football, Wilson demonstrates, can thus be seen as a story of spaces found and shut out over the pitch. As formations evolved, players with time and space started getting less of it leading to some innovative coaches searching for space in some other part of the pitch. Or to get one or more of the opposition players out of the game by denying them the time or the space to operate.
Organizing a team allows a team to effectively utilise the space on the pitch. they had 10 players … they had fifteen minutes to score against my five players, the only rule was that if we won possession or they lost the ball, they had to start over 10 meters inside their own half … they never scored. Milan coach, to prove the efficacy of organization, The first basic question is that in a ‘simple’ game like football, do tactics and organization matter at all? Arrigo Sacchi, the former Italy and A.C. There is thus a history to be told of this complex game-play, and Jonathan Wilson tries in this book to trace the tactical evolution of football from the early days to the modern form. The beauty and appeal of the football lies in the fact that it is both exceedingly simple in the conception, and yet allows for enormous complexity in the game-play.
Yet, no one remembers football this way it is always about the Peles, the Maradonas, the Rooneys and the Messis and never about a team or how eleven players played. … is not about players, or at least not just about players it is about shape and about space, about the intelligent deployment of players, and their movement within that deployment. Football, Jonathan Wilson writes in the prologue of ‘Inverting the Pyramid’,
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