too many violinists, no-one played percussion ;)

They were - everyone of them could stop the ball dead with their first touch, then find a team-mate with either foot. Football doesn't need to be any more complicated than that. If you can control it, then distribute it before a tackle comes in - you're almost at the winner's post.

I wasn't born in that time but apparently the '82' team was something special. Apparently the most individually talented Brazilian team ever.

Tim Vickery got it right with , south american teams have a couple of exceptional players and the rest just kick each other , not much change in the
last 40 years.

And thats why they have been ugly to watch a disgrace to previous Brazilian teams from the past since the 70s that 82 team would feel very angry by this lot.

They have forgot the beautiful element in football, Tim Vickey from the SBS World Cup Show made a great point that Brazil these days play by moments not by flow, Germany have shown football should be played by flow not by moments, hope its a major wake up call for the Brazilian technocrats. [-x

They need to focus on development of players, play to a certain modern way, and learn from the best in the business such as Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy etc. They need to wake up.
They are not the kings anymore in football, well not for the time being. Very Sad.

I went to an FFV Coaches workshop conducted by Harry Bingham in 2009, he commented back then about the selection of athletic players in Brazil.

He observed that in Brazil it is a "Given" that the players at elite levels have equal technical abilities, therefore they were selecting the most athletic players fro Academies and National Teams as their competitive advantage.

Bump. Germany have shown the Brazil the way.

Fascinating post, Barca.

It was interesting to see Brazil steamrolling the Socceroos physically last year. Nobody else had been able to do this for five years. I was amazed at how physical Brazil were. Also, how big and strong some of their players were.

I think they've suffered for years where they've had the most skilful players, then often seen them steamrolled by more physical teams, even in youth tournaments. On a number of programs I've seen many Brazilian coaches say the game is much more physical now.

We've had plenty of big muscleheads, whose technical qualities have underwhelmed most. Maybe Brazil observed the big qualifier in 2005, when Urugay , the most physical team in South America, met more than their match in Australia.

I was just thinking the other day, that all the South Americans, with the exception of Argentina and Uruguay, seem a lot more physical than they used to be in this World Cup. Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador and Chile, certainly tried to throw a lot more weight around.

Juninho Paulista on the SBS World Cup Show, was questioned why Brazil haven't produced the caliber of the players from the last decade, and he mentioned a very simple fact that the major junior academies have changed there thought of what they expect at junior level. And so that culture thats the crept in the game over there that which is the emphasised the importance of results over development of players. Alarmingly enough.

He insists that they now focus on selecting bigger stronger/althetic players rather than the skilful playmakers which they produced in depth in previous decades. He also fears it could only get worse if they don't react to it now.

Its ironic that we are trying to do opposite over there with the new matra of development over results, selecting the skilful over the physical players. Brazil are going the opposite way.

:-k

Edited by Barca4life: 7/7/2014 11:20:14 PM