A way of understanding football, a style of play based on possession and positional play, to dominate and control the game.
17/06/2026
One is led to think that Tuchel, by preferring players who are more functional to his system, chose to leave them out in order to remove any ambiguity surrounding his game plan: not so much to avoid the temptation of changing his mind during the tournament, but rather to keep the public narrative under control.
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13/06/2026
The initiative signals a coaching staff concerned with details and open to incorporating methods from other sports to optimise processes and help players memorise set-piece routines.
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Thomas Tuchel, speaking after the match against New Zealand, said he was much more satisfied with his team’s second-half performance. According to him, the team played more within their positions and moved the ball with greater speed, unlike in the first half, when players were often out of position and there was a bit more “freestyle” football.
His comments highlight the importance that coaches like Tuchel place on positional structure and on the order created through proper spacing and distances between players. It is a way of fostering attacking interactions through a clear plan and a well-defined organisation.
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06/06/2026
Along the way, we will always remember those who tried to play football beautifully as a sign of identity, belonging to a constructive process that does not alter and whose essence of play can remain intact despite existing within highly variable contexts and enduring the irreversible passage of time.
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02/06/2026
More than a sporting achievement, this title represents the success of a project. PSG stopped relying exclusively on star players and instead placed its faith in a collective footballing idea. Luis Enrique’s work proved to be successful, influential, and capable of becoming a reference point for many other clubs in the years to come.
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19/05/2026
How Unai Emery has turned Aston Villa into a fully fledged European force has been nothing short of remarkable, a far cry from the side he inherited three and a half years ago when they were hovering just three points above the relegation zone. The scale of the transformation has been extraordinary.
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Catanzaro under Alberto Aquilani continues to offer tactical insights that lead us to reflect on the complexity of the game and on how it can be controlled, while at the same time opening itself up to the game’s intrinsic uncertainty, which no longer becomes merely a negative factor to be reduced, but rather an opportunity to be seized.
In the search for advantage, Catanzaro adopts a dynamic occupation of space through positional rotations, overlapping runs, and forward projections (see Cassandro in the action leading to the goal): a strategic approach that combines functions and positions, starting from a structure designed to reduce uncertainty before attempting to exploit the opportunities that uncertainty itself can offer.
11/05/2026
New nuances within positional play continue to emerge: more individual pressing without cover, more compact teams organised to recover possession immediately and initiate another attacking sequence, even more mobile false nines dropping into the build-up phase, emptier midfields at the base of play, less symmetry, more relational traits, more long passes in the build-up, and fewer passes overall.
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07/05/2026
We cannot escape a generalised principle of uncertainty, Edgar Morin lays the foundations of a new paradigm of complexity. Once closed and antagonistic, subject and object, order and disorder, are now linked — at once contradictory and complementary. Within this framework, uncertainty becomes an integral part of complex organisations and can no longer be ignored by the observer.
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