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Sunshine, Shadows, Post 90 (European) Soccer: Netherlands, Individual vs. Collective
When we talk about Dutch soccer, we hear the term "Total Football", a system developed by John Cruyff and Ajax coach Rinus Michels. 1971 to 1973, Ajax won three consecutive championships.
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Whirling Dollars (defeating Greece's Pannesinaikos, Italy's
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), not only did they come away with the win, but they played soccer in a way that had never been seen before. Writer David Winner witnessed the hometown team he supported in 1972
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Against Ajax, Ajax played a wonderful and headstrong game, a strange and confusing way of running and conducting, but gradually you realize an intricate and fascinating image. In the end Ajax beat
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（David Winner said that Ajax could have scored at least 5 goals in that game if they wanted to (but David Winner said that Ajax seemed to be from another time and place). After that game, David Winner became a fan of Dutch soccer, and he actually wrote a book about Dutch soccer that is familiar to soccer fans - Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football. Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football.
In the late 1960s, Ajax changed from a 4-2-4 formation to a 4-3-3, and this has been the core of the Ajax system ever since. Soccer historian David Goldblatt says that in this core, each player has an assigned number, position and task. One of the most important innovations was to imagine these positions as nodes in a network of mobility, that is to say, the player's position on the field at the time determines what role he is to play, rather than the player's back number or the fixed division of labor in the game. When they are on offense, 11 people are on offense at the same time; on defense, 11 people are on defense at the same time. They seek to get the ball to the player who has the most space on the court, because space is the only way to move or score. Positional and functional flexibility, the extension and compression of space, and the strategic pursuit of space require all-around skill, tactical and spatial awareness, and a fast-moving mind for every player on the field.
Leading British journalist Brian Glanville says the term 'all-round soccer' itself is a little confusing and imprecise, and that, broadly speaking, it's a way of saying that Ajax have won three in a row.
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Cup-winning kicker (of course, had it not been for Johan Cruyff's 1973 insistence that
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Johan Cruyff played as an attacking midfielder, but he ran all over the pitch, and his teammates changed their positions with him, but there was no confusion in the team formation. Johan Cruyff plays as an attacking midfielder, but he runs all over the field, and his teammates flexibly change their positions as he does, but the team formation does not create confusion. Writer Nicky Hornby in the book more briefly: in the beginning of the 72/73 season half a dozen games were played in Total Football, the defensive players must be able to attack, the offensive players must be in the middle of the field to play the ball, that is the post-modern version of soccer, popular with the intellectuals ......
Johan Cruyff says he likes to turn conventional thinking on its head, telling his team's strikers that he's the front line defender, and making it clear that the distance between each player can't be more than 10 to 15 meters, and that each player has to be precise in the perception of the "space" he or his teammates have created. Van Gaal's strategy is somewhat similar (although in formation Van Gaal will use a 3-4-3), with the defense starting from the opponent's half of the field, as if the team's No. 10 is the pivot of the offense, but he's also the first Ajax player on the field who has to press the opponent! Another key point of Van Gaal's strategy was his emphasis on the right and left wingers. For example, in 1992 Ajax relied heavily on right winger John van't Schip and left winger Bryan Roy in their attack, who were textbook wingers: fast, able to drive the ball from the wing, excellent passing ability. In Louis Van Gaal's mindset of the game at the time, wingers were wingers and they were not to be seen anywhere but on the wings!
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The international roster of the United States, playing on the left wing, and on the right wing at the time, was an 'atypical' Dutch flanker, Ruud Gullit, however, Gullit was so creative and important that he went on to play in a number of different positions and was not confined to the wing, while Roy was in the
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The position was increasingly untenable, as in the wing position they found Marc Overmars, who was a much better match for the Dutch attacking system!
