His special power is to find space, space invisible to the non-Raumdeuter and spread into it like a plume of smoke, or a form of insidious footballing dry rot” best described by Barney Ronay of the Guardian.īut while Thomas Müller dwells in that space, the vision to find such space shouldn’t be underrated. Thomas Müller is nicknamed the Haumdeuter, which is German for “space investigator”. The concept of space in the modern era can be best illustrated by, “
Add a dash of the special skills of all the individual players and you have a heady cocktail that will leave you asking for more. The deadly duo has entertained and exhilarated us. In modern times, the combination of understanding space and the body has helped teams across the World achieve success in a manner that has boosted the coffers of the clubs economically and visibility. Way before, the “ Economist – Arsene Wenger”, introduced rigid diets and other healthy lifestyle habits in the late ’90s at Highbury, it was Johan Cruyff who almost two decades earlier had already revolutionized Dutch football. “Quality without results is pointless,” he was quoted as saying. He was a proponent of beauty with efficiency and he preferred to combine both to attain the desired result. Instead, Johan Cruyff sought to focus on the artistic side of the game.Įssentially, he sought to implement a system, in which the understanding of space in a field was more important than just pelting the ball around towards the goal. Centuries earlier, when kings and queens ruled, sporting spectacles were entertainers, but those were games of brute strength and agility in which the only rule was survival. He trod a path which no one had, and thus in the process defined football as entertainment. From there, the seeds of total football were scattered among the up and coming coaches, which has for once and all changed the entire way football was looked at. the footballing grounds of Ajax Amsterdam and then it was refined further in the hallowed grounds of Catalonia, where Barcelona FC was the platform.
“Totale voetbal” as known in Dutch, was something that was incepted in the labs i.e. The Flying Dutchman aka El Flaco (The Thin One) Total Football laid down by the Dutch Maestro, was a refreshing tactical nuance that revolutionized the entire world of football which in turn has influenced the modern era like none other. Legacies are abounding everywhere every family has a legacy within their own parameters. I asked my father, at dinner so what did his generation think of Johan Cruyff?. I remember, a few years ago, when the news broke that, the Dutch legend of football, Johan Cruyff, had passed I immediately dropped everything and started getting to know more about him.
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