Wednesday, June 28

Tactical or Technical?

I was watching the world cup today at a nearby coffeeshop. It has a huge TV for a lot of people to watch. But there were not many audience today as i realised later that it was the rest day for the teams that qualify for the quater finals. And that huge TV was showing all the goals that were scored by the different 32 teams in the first round. First thing that kept my attention as to how and when the teams scored the goals. I noticed there is a difference between bad,new, good or giant teams score goals. The build up to the goals really interest me. I noticed the good or giant teams like France,Germany Brazil are very technical and mix with tactical that makes them stands out from the bad or new teams. If you watch carefully on these team players out of the ratio of 11 players per team at least 7 -9 players (world star players) in a layman terms, have mastered the fundamentals technicalilities of soccer way before the world cup. And the tacticals is being drilled perhaps a couple of months before the finals in germany. Whereas the bad or new team, the players technicalities is a bit on the down side and we have not touched on the tacticals aspect of it. I noticed it is either the new or bad teams do not have both or only has one aspect. One aspect that most new or bad team have are technical. Tactical aspect i believe they have not reach the stage yet.It is because the coach felt the players are new in mastering the technicals, and a lot of room to improve at world cup standards. And tacticals will be adopted at the next world cup should they qualify again for the finals.Well the way these bad team or new players to the world cup played in their games i can see the lack of world cup level tactics unlike the giants or past world cup winners or potential winners after years of trying hard in the finals.

If a team is too tecnical, i noticed they lack the tactics to win the game for the country. Tactics come in many uniquely of their own. If you watch Latino players and european team play you'll see the different. But when i see Asian and african players
play its almost the copycat of both. Hmmm...i wish more uniquely tactics were adopted for them even on the technicalities too looks the same for the new or bad team...maybe their coaches were trained by the latin or european academy for coaches.