Work for over 10 years
“Germany’s 7-1 destruction of Brazil was the epic culmination of ten years of work, to write The Telegraph. When Mannschaft failed to get out of the group during the 2004 European Championship, a few intelligent and patriotic individuals came to their country’s aid.’ German football then decided to revise everything: more cooperation between clubs and the squad, development of training centers, wider detection of young talents, priority for local players and implementation of the same playing style in the national hope of all teams.
Jurgen Klinsmann, then national coach, and his assistant Joachim Low (who leads the team today) agreed with the Bundesliga clubs to define what the national team’s style should look like: “fast and technical, the same one that crushed Brazil in Belo Horizonte,” reports The Telegraph.
An unparalleled collective
Messi with Argentina, James Rodriguez with Colombia or Neymar and Brazil: “Since the 80s we have never had so many national teams led by a single player. judge him NewStatesman. It was the World Cup for individuals.” Conversely, Germany, “incredibly well prepared”, played the entire World Cup as one man and “proved the superiority of the collective as it crushed a Brazil dependent on individuals overloaded with emotions”.
The fusion of the hat and total football
German football has succeeded perfectly in its ‘reunification, effectively merging the Dutch school of total football and the Latin toque’. guarantees El Pais. According to the Madrid daily, by combining the short and fast passes of South American teams with the movement in the attacking phase that developed in the Netherlands, Low was able to persevere and stay in the wheel of Spanish football together with German footballers. Result: it is the total triumph of football.”
Eleven field players
We often talk about the twelfth man, the audience, who has to give extra soul to the eleven on the field. “But this term may seem irrelevant when you consider that teams don’t even use the eleven players they have on the field,” REMARK These football times. And this eleventh man, the British news site estimates, is the goalkeeper. “If the Spanish playing model has been improved by Germany, it is thanks to Manuel Neuer. (…) By not only using the goalkeeper to protect his cages, but also actively participating in defensive phases, building attacks and optimizing ball possession, you are really deploying your eleventh man. And if your opponent doesn’t do the same, you play with another player.” And These Football Times assures us: “We saw the goalkeeper of the future during Germany-Algeria in the round of 16,” when Manuel Neur played almost constantly outside his penalty area.
Towards a new era?
Spain’s sudden collapse in the first round led to the belief that no country would dominate international football to this extent for some time. Wrong, deposit The guard, the Germans are “the new kings of playing style”. “It certainly took them time as this generation had to come to terms with the brutal defeats to Spain at the 2008 European Championship and the 2010 World Cup, but their maturation is exceptional and their confidence is at its highest,” the British daily said. But be careful, warn The guard, because this title could collapse tonight with a defeat against Argentina.
