Pressing: The Tactical Revolution. Sacchi, Bielsa, Guardiola, Klopp, and the Modern Battle to Win the Ball Back
M. Muñoz
M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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Football changed the moment coaches realized that losing the ball could be more dangerous for the opponent than keeping it. Pressing: The Tactical Revolution traces a single tactical idea from Viktor Maslov's overlooked Dynamo Kyiv sides of the 1960s through Arrigo Sacchi's synchronized Milan, Marcelo Bielsa's relentless man-marking, Pep Guardiola's positional trap, and Jurgen Klopp's gegenpressing — the philosophy that made losing the ball, for a few seconds, the most dangerous moment in the game. Along the way it follows the sports scientists who measured pressing in kilometers and heart-rate zones, the goalkeepers retrained as auxiliary defenders, and the coaches who fought back with direct football, false full-backs, and disciplined low blocks. Each chapter anchors its argument in a single match where a way of pressing, or resisting it, decided the outcome — from Kyiv's forgotten European final to Liverpool's Anfield miracle and Real Madrid's Bernabéu comebacks. Written in the same rigorous, character-driven style as the rest of the FUTBOL 360 collection, this is the definitive account of the idea now governing every serious team in world football: what you do in the seconds after losing the ball matters as much as what you do with it.
Football changed the moment coaches realized that losing the ball could be more dangerous for the opponent than keeping it. Pressing: The Tactical Revolution traces a single tactical idea from Viktor Maslov's overlooked Dynamo Kyiv sides of the 1960s through Arrigo Sacchi's synchronized Milan, Ma...
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