Barcelona. Messi. ZM. Football Highlights | Soccer Highlights | Full Matches | Videos | Clips | Watch Online. Football schedules, watch live Football on your pc. Home Live TV Live Sports Software Search Forum Servertime Timezone Username New to this site? Password News Donate Contact Advertising No results. © 2011 MyP2P.eu | User Agreement | Notice & Takedown. Interview: Michael Cox, Zonal Marking. The graphs, diagrams and match reports on Zonal Marking are pored over by thousands of football fans the world over and have helped push tactical analysis towards the centre of mainstream football debate in the United Kingdom. Set up in January this year, the phenomenally successful website received an average of 210,000 visitors per week during the World Cup and counts tactical mastermind Jonathan Wilson among its many admirers. Variously believed to be the work of either a particularly public-spirited professional coach or a crack team of disaffected former Opta employees, the force behind ZM is in fact one man: Michael Cox.
He very kindly agreed to grant his first interview to Football Further. FF: A simple question to begin with. Why write about tactics? The classic Zonal Marking tactical diagram MC: On an ‘emotional’ level, it’s something that’s always interested me. Your match analysis articles are incredibly detailed and often appear a matter of minutes after the final whistle. Football Highlights | Soccer Highlights | Full Matches | Videos | Clips | Watch Online. Analysing Brazil’s fluid system at close quarters. Dunga’s Brazil side isn’t popular back home. The use of two holding midfielders, the tendency to play on the counter-attack and the overlooking of the likes of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Pato have all seen him accused of playing in an un-Brazilian way, by ditching the classic Brazilian principles of yesteryear for a more patient, less spectacular way of playing.
All this ignores Brazil’s record since Dunga became manager – Copa America winners, Confederations Cup winners, top of the South American qualifying group – but perhaps Brazil is a country where to win is not enough, you have to win with style. That’s a line of argument to be investigated by someone more knowledgeable about Brazilian football culture, but tens of thousands of Brazilians turned up at the Emirates to watch Brazil take on Ireland, and I was in the stadium to see the Brazil shape for myself.
This site has previously commented upon the unusual system Brazil play. Brazil - 4-4-2 diamond? Brazil, 4-2-3-1? BRAZIL - NETHERLANDS 1/2 FINAL WORLD CUP 1998. ITALY - BRAZIL 2 ROUND WORLD CUP 1982. The Question: Why is the modern offside law a work of genius? | Jonathan Wilson | Sport. Nothing in football is so traduced as the offside law. Most seem to regard it as a piece of killjoy legislation, designed almost to prevent football producing too many goals and being too much fun, while for the punditocracy it has become the universal scapegoat, the thing that "nobody understands".
Just because Garth Crooks doesn't get something, though, doesn't make it a bad thing. The modern offside law may be the best thing that's ever happened to football, and it is almost certainly the reason Barcelona have been so successful with a fleet of players whose obvious asset is their technique rather than their physique. A brief history of offside In 1866, the law was liberalised so that a player was considered to be onside if there were three defensive players between him and the goal (or was behind the ball, which has remained a constant); this was the variant to which Queen's Park committed when they joined the FA four years later.
The 1925 change Italia 90 The impact of the 2005 change. «Pas un grand cru» - Foot - CM - Bilan - L'EQUIPE.FR. 1974 World Cup Final - Holland v West Germany. Against the Underdog. Uring the quarterfinal between Uruguay and Ghana, maybe a little bit before it started, I had a somewhat startling realization. I didn’t care if Ghana won. I was aware that I should want Ghana to win, and that was fine, but it didn’t really resonate with me emotionally.
In the next day’s match between Spain and Paraguay, I could sense a very real antipathy towards the Albirroja. As if they were somehow disturbing the natural order of things by holding Spain goalless for the balance of the match. This has led me to believe that, horror of horrors, I don’t really like an underdog. This doesn’t really make sense to me yet. There are some exceptions, however. There are a couple of reasons why I think I like the favourites. I even have to admit that I like a good dynasty every once in a while. World Cup tactics: Don’t neglect the holding role « Football Further. As in 2006, three of the four semi-finalists at this year’s World Cup have played in a 4-2-3-1 formation. For France, Portugal and Italy (whose 4-2-3-1 could also be interpreted as a 4-4-1-1) in 2006, read Spain, Germany and the Netherlands in 2010. Germany were the black sheep in 2006, with a 4-4-2 hinged upon a midfield diamond that featured Torsten Frings at the base and Michael Ballack at the tip.
Uruguay are the odd ones out this time around, their 3-4-1-2 having initially morphed into a 4-3-1-2/4-3-2-1 and then a 4-4-2 for the semi-final defeat to Holland. One of the most distinctive elements of the 4-2-3-1 is the presence of two deep-lying central midfielders in front of the defence. Bastian Schweinsteiger pulls the strings for Germany alongside the more conservative Sami Khedira, while Xabi Alonso’s effortless midfield organising for Spain is shrewdly complemented by the graft and positional awareness of Sergio Busquets.
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