I’ve not long finished reading ‘78 - How A Nation Lost A World Cup’ about Scotland’s failed campaign in Argentina (great book by the way - cheers to those who recommended)
In it there’s references to the Dutch playing Total Football and it got me thinking, whatever happened to that style of play? For those that remember it, what’s the closest to a team nowadays who play like that? As far as I can tell part of it was every outfield player could play in any position but I might be wrong.
Anyway, great book!
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09-12-2018 01:45 PM #1
Whatever happened to Total Football?
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09-12-2018 01:55 PM #2
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Gotta be Barcelona or Manchester City. Paris SG.
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Neil Lennon must have read that book before picking his team to play Killie...
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From what I can make of it PSG May be the closest to it. Hi was wondering why more teams didn’t try it
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They may have had defenders that were great footballers but they wouldn’t have stuck Rene van De Kerkhof in a back three.
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09-12-2018 07:39 PM #14
Barcelona's tika taka football of a few years ago was maybe the closest I've seen to Holland's "total football", with every player being totally comfortable with the ball and possessing great technique.
I recall the Dutch kicking themselves for being "over-confident" against the Germans in that 1974 world cup final - there were passages of play where the Dutch were literally "taking the mick" out of the Germans who could not get near the ball. There is a real "hatred" and bitter rivalry between those 2 nations.
I remember rooting for the dutch in that final and also for them in the 1978 final, and felt so disappointed to see them come away with runners up on both occasions.Last edited by Hi Heid Yin; 09-12-2018 at 08:17 PM.
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09-12-2018 08:02 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Over time successful football strategies get widely adopted and then opponents find a way to counter them.
‘Total football’ as a phrase has died out but its concepts are all-pervading in elite football - ‘inverted’ wingers, ‘false’ nines, ball-playing Centre backs etc.
Much the same way that tiki taka isn’t in use as a phrase any more but lots of teams play it out from the back and employ a high press - the two key tenets of the system.
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09-12-2018 10:02 PM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Made up by the over analytical Bell ends on sky sports.
If I used that phrase in footy related conversation I might sound knowledgeable. Or like one of the afore mentioned bell ends.
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09-12-2018 10:18 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It’s the guy who’s nominally the centre forward but drops deep to try and assist runners going beyond him.
Firmino plays like this.
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09-12-2018 10:20 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Is the term ‘false nine’ acceptable in normal
Conversation?
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09-12-2018 10:39 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-12-2018 10:45 PM #20
Brilliant book and BBC Scotland Documentary.
Reflects not so much on the admirable total football of the brilliant Dutch side but the reasons behind Scotland’s ill fated World Cup campaign
From the send off at Hampden Ally Macleod said we would definitely come back with a medal if not the actual trophy itself. Whipping the nation into a World Cup fever frenzy The arguments over bonuses playing players out of form The Willie Johnston affair not having South American Champions Peru watched Taking Iran for granted.The counter effect Ally Macleods personality had on the squad and how the whole experience affected him and his family The problems with accommodation boredom isolation security internal politics dealing with the press and the blazers from the SFA and insights from the fans
Well worth a readLast edited by BILLYHIBS; 10-12-2018 at 07:16 AM.
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10-12-2018 08:46 AM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-12-2018 08:52 AM #22
This is the best book I've read about Dutch football and you can pick up a used copy of it for as little as a penny plus postage on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0085UP9...ng=UTF8&btkr=1
In Brilliant Orange--the neurotic genius of Dutch football, journalist David Winner explores his personal fascination with the land that gave the world Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Johan Cruyff--searching for reasons why such a tiny country has produced some of football's most intelligent, enigmatic and unfulfilled teams.
Winner talks with the players, past and present--including Johnny Rep and Ruud Krol from the losing World Cup Final sides of 1974 and 1978--uncovering their personal experience of the public triumphs and disasters. But it is the breadth of his enquiry into what it may mean to be Dutch--reconciling a colonial past with a multi-cultural present; living with the memories of wartime occupation and collaboration; the tensions between a fiercely individualistic, libertarian spirit and the principles of communality--that makes this such an extraordinary and wonderful book. --Alex Hankin
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10-12-2018 09:16 AM #23
The ‘74 Dutch team were just a knock off imitation of Turnbulls Tornadoes!
Seriously, what a side they were. They were much better in 74 than in 78. There’s youtube videos of them destroying Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil before their cocky swagger backfired against a pragmatic German side. Iconic team.
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10-12-2018 09:58 AM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They would not get their revenge on the Germans until the 1988 European Championships held in Germany
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Er no probably not!
But then other terms I rarely use in normal conversation are ‘flat back four’ , ‘thermal efficiency’ and ‘transmission housing’.
All have their appropriate uses in context though.
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Quite possibly.
There are many words and phrases that adopt a different meaning when used by Hearts, such as ‘financially self-sufficient’ and ‘famous’.
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