Total Football - A graphic history of the world’s most iconic soccer tactics The evolution of football formations and plays

by Shetty, Sanjeev

• ISBN13: 9781781317846
• ISBN10: 1781317844
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-06-07
• Publisher: Aurum Press

Summary

You've never seen football formations and tactic explored like they are in Total Football ever before. A must-have for football experts!

A goalkeeper, two defenders and eight attackers – it’s no surprise that in the 1950s under this popular formation scores like 9-3 were common. So what changed? Total Football tells the evolution of football tactics: from the birth of Total Football in the Netherlands to the dominance of tiki taka in Spain and Brazil, each chapter explores an iconic tactic.
 
Innovative graphics alongside expert text guide you through the manager decisions that developed new formations, the pure talent of players that defined each playing style and the matches that propelled the winning tactic to legendary status. 
 
Sanjeev Shetty explores how each tactic works, how they came to dominate and how opponents worked to find a way to beat them. From Pele to Messi, Cruyff to Mourinho, Total Football explores the tactics that made the legends, giving you a new understanding of how the beautiful game is played.

Author Biography

SANJEEV SHETTY is a sports journalist with nearly twenty years’ experience. He works for the BBC as a producer and reporter on their international services covering their sports news channels. He is the author of No Middle Ground and Messigraphica. Sanj lives in Cheshire, UK with his family.

Table of Contents

1. In the beginning: all-out attack
England 3-6 Hungary (Association football friendly, 25th November 1953)
Manager: Gusztáv Sebes
Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (European Cup final, 18th May 1960)
Manager: Miguel Muñoz
 
2. How we stopped it: Catenaccio
Inter Milan 3-1 Real Madrid (European Cup Final, 27th May 1964)
Manager: Helenio Herrera
 
3. Bringing the light back: the use of the number 10
Brazil 4-1 Italy (World Cup Final, 21st June 1970)
Manager: Mário Zagallo
 
4. Total Football
Ajax 2-0 Inter Milan (European Cup Final, 31st May 1972)
Manager: Stefan Kovacs
Netherlands 2-0 Brazil (World Cup, 8th July 1974)
Manager: Rinus Michels
 
5. Made in England, with a little help from the Scots
Liverpool 3-1 Borussia Munchen Gladbach (European Cup Final, 25th May 1977)
Manager: Bob Paisley
 
6. The Italian Job
AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (European Cup Final, 18th May 1994)
Manager: Fabio Capello

7. French Rule
France 3-0 Brazil (World Cup final 1998)
Manager: Aime Jacquet
 
8. There was a man from the Govan: Sir Alex Ferguson
Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea (European Cup Final, 21st May 2008)
Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson
 
9. Death by football: Tiki taka
Barcelona 5-0 Real Madrid (Primera Liga, 29th November 2010)
Manager: Pep Guardiola
 
10. Power and pressing: how Germany reclaimed the throne
Barcelona 0-3 Bayern Munich (Champions League semi-final, 1st May 2013)
Manager: Jupp Heynckes