The World Cup begins in few moments from now. The history of football has been many times painful. Some of the beautiful playing teams have lost and some never made it big and some changed the style of play to win it big on many stages. Playing beautiful is not easy and Playing beautiful and winning is more difficult. The legend Johan Cryuff mentioned simple football is eye pleasing but very difficult to play. The golden generation of Holland lead by Johan Cryuff came close to almost winning the 1974 World Cup but lost to Germany. But they played beautifully to beat the champions Brazil with their beautiful brand of football called "Total Football".Rinus Michels is credited with this brand of football which needs exceptionally talented players with brains to play and succeed. In 1974 they did not succeed but in 1988 European Championship they succeeded finally. In Euro 2000 they Dutch team under Frank Rijkard Played some beautiful football but lost to Italy in the semi-final.
The brand named Total football is the height of creativity in the game of football. This game doesn't have a rigid format of 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 but a flexible format where they say the defenders attack and attackers defend. At any instant the structure of the team resembles to a 4-3-3 formation but the players are not fixed for any positions and the players are moving around and other players adjust to moving players to fill in for the spaces. In 1974 team it was Johan Cryuff moving around the pitch his team-mates adjusting to the movement.
The recent times the FC Barcelona has succeeded in playing beautifully and winning. They did that in 2008-09 season by winning a record of six trophies and bringing back the true flavour of Total football.One may argue that Total football is meant for League matches not meant for Knock-out ones. The Clockwork Orange of 1974 lost only in the knock-out match which was the final.
The recent times the FC Barcelona has succeeded in playing beautifully and winning. They did that in 2008-09 season by winning a record of six trophies and bringing back the true flavour of Total football.One may argue that Total football is meant for League matches not meant for Knock-out ones. The Clockwork Orange of 1974 lost only in the knock-out match which was the final.
The time now has come for Netherlands to show the world what is this strategy to playing beautifully and winning! Or winning then playing beautiful! The time has come! The players have grown and mature and they play beautiful and can win! The friendlies and qualifiers showed some glimpses of this clockwork Orange! Yes Netherlands-the time has come for Holland -the time has finally come. The wait has been long,playing beautiful and winning-That's what Netherlands needs to show the world. Long Live Total football !!
The time has come for the World to notice the talent that was not recognised & named waste will go on to win this World Cup 2010 Yes! Netherlands!
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