Technology, roots and total calcium: the utopia realized
The perfect match Barça at the Camp Nou is utopia achieved, the total football of the third millennium, able to realize the ancient dream of the club deep into the soul and technique Catalan Dutch football with the thought that the 70s (with Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff) has permeate the story Blaugrana. The disintegration of Real Madrid took part - before the whole world, including 1 million 320 thousand people tuned in to Sky - as many as 8 canterani (now 10 with the arrival of Bojan and Jeffren), famous people of the nursery La Masia , all examples of players with very specific characteristics and reproduced in series: The finest in basic technique, creativity and 'Catalanity. A strong imprint that in addition to an overall savings (the rose Barça has cost 157 million, that of the Real 477), causes a genetic memory of the game and a unique sense of belonging. "To my great pride to play Catalans spoke for their people, talking to foreigners told the smart money ...», Helenio Herrera recalling his time at the Nou Camp from 1958 to 1960. Rhetoric, perhaps, but the determination with which the Barça, led by the icon and captain Puyol, and capable of defending press (particularly the always crucial to build great teams), and the ferocity with which prevailed over the Real with the fifth goal at 91 ' as well as the historic rivalry and provocation to Mourinho, probably has something to do with this. A La Masia, not surprisingly came at the suggestion Cruyff in '79 to then-President Nuñez Ajax example, the home hardware is integrated with the Dutch software, which provides a basic module (4-3-3) and the versatility of players to play different functions, changing position, in other words "do everything" in the best possible way. Examples are the exchanges of position between Messi and Pedro and the movement - never empty and no waste of energy - Xavi and Iniesta are protected in their creative work by Busquets, key-man side that always offers a line of passage for tiki -taka as fast as a pinball machine. Among the myriad aspects of this philosophy, the most interesting is the lack of a striker sfondatore. From La Masia, on average, leaving great midfielders, defenders solid, good goalies, but not conventional bomber. Not surprisingly, in the recent history of the club, the great filmmakers were imported: Lineker, Stoichkov, Romario, Ronaldo, Eto'o, Ibrahimovic. It is no coincidence that Guardiola was released without problems the last two, an extreme the supreme principle of Dutch football. "Football is full rebuild every time the spatial architecture of the field, creating space and join them," said Barry Hulshoff, Ajax the great defender of the '70s. That's what makes Barça, redrawing the field in many restricted areas "bulls" with the opponent and creating action-worked goal on the edge of mannerism. All this, to be intractable As with Real, requires a collective state of grace. If there is - as the orthodoxy does not have a plan B - get shorts like last year in the Champions League in 180 'with Inter Milan, whose company, after the show on Monday, is even more legendary. Maybe someone (maybe the real spring) will be able to imitate it, but the eight titles won by Barca's Guardiola in two seasons confirms that the total calcium of the millennium is not only beauty but a great, tremendous substance.
Alessandro Pasini, the Corriere della Sera today
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