By olrac - 24 Jan 2011 10:28 AM
NIce article, but I feel like it is just the introduction to a much deeper one. In another blog can you go further into the attacking and devensive implementations of this system?
What do you think about the FourFourTwo blog Where Did The 433 System Come From??
Did the Dutch invent the 4-3-3 system? No they did not. But they did give us "Total Football" and a whole different way to look at the game. Total Football utilized space in a different way, used a ci...
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By Gregory Parker - 24 Jan 2011 10:05 PM
The article is what it is, a brief introduction to how the 4-3-3 system developed. As I mentioned a few times, formations evolve in different parts of the world, sometimes together with different tactics. How the Dutch play a 4-3-3 is different to how the Italians play 4-3-3. This is based on tactics.
A playing formation is a static plan or template. It does not tell you how to do it. This was my point by discussing the Brazilians. How they play a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 is very different to other countries. For example they use a box system in the midfield as a template. It is the same when building a house. A blueprint does not tell you how to build the house. It will tell you whether it is a single story or double story. This is the same in football. A formation does not tell you what shape to defend in, or how to defend, or how to attack. A formation is a static plan.
Games often come down to how effective teams are at 1v1 situations not static formation. The Brazilians do this well, but are not the only ones.
Tactics tell you how to do things within formations. The article describes some tactics (Total Football), as you have done. Formations in real life are dynamic and change regularly depending on the play. Perhaps we are discussing semantics but it is what creates passion and discussion. If you want to call a static formation a tactic do so but it may not get you very far coaching a team.
I am a student of the game and learn something about the game every day. Thank you for your comments and knowledge.
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