Fusignano Before the Convention, on which rivers of ink have been thrown from a literature far too lenient with the suggestions medievalistiche, the defenses of the football teams were not as stiff as planks of wood half price, deployed in line like a firing squad, counting the millimeters behind as the wedding dress.
least in the Italian league, the defensive structures on the conceptual shift has taken place with the sci-fi (by then) Milan in the second half of the eighties (which has among its antecedents the so-called total football Dutch). From that moment on, the pitch has become elastic material, can be shortened as it was, in their own half being able to draw a virtual line between what is inside and what is out of the game.
In a state of exaltation geometric diagonal movement is defined by an outer defense recovers sull'attaccante opponent who has managed to elude the control of central defenders.
the obsessive search of subtlety is lost but perhaps the figure of the number 6.
The 6 was in the system undecimale, the defender immediately vested with the task of marking. Bore the name of the dog of an old song by F. De Andrè.
The free, that today has become a much more serene in the journal reviews, was by its very nature behind and shy. He watched the game grow from behind the curtain of the markers, with a sense of alienation similar to that which must prove the goalkeeper, but different because he was a stranger among the like, not take the field wearing pajamas.
The free was the last stronghold and the last hope. Did not need to free too much power, his dilemma was the space, to always be ready at the place of choice, a crossroads of no return.
Today, the offside behind the idea that defense is a matter for the weak, and its careful application makes it possible to prevent every attack. Even when it fails, it is chasing the opponent that beat it, a bit 'like a thief who has ripped off the silverware, not to be closed, oppressed, really compete with a hazard, meaning the size and efforts to overcome it. The free
had this unmistakable imprint in its name, in his gait chest out and ball and chain, regardless of the opposing forces, to pull the team out of the mire. Not that pretended to himself great glory: most of the time, escaped the danger, and passed the ball to the proper authorities and let him return in his shadow.
It tells of extremely talented players (among them, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, in Rome), weakened by age or by injuries, played their final seasons as a free, a withdrawal end, in a thoughtful way out of the limelight, as if it really freedom can only be reached on time (almost) expired.
In Italy, the last great interpreter of the role was probably Gaetano Scirea.
From Sacchiana turn, traces of the number 6 might still survive in the distinction between who is director of defense and who is not: change the operations, there must always be someone who commands and the premise of a good defense, as always repeats Eddie, are all in the right choice between the two central defenders.
sections of the old style resisted in Franco Baresi, although the protagonist of that historic Milan. Moreover, the authority of his rides was precisely reflected in the tone with which suspension of disbelief, raising his arm, called the offside trap and all, starting by the arbitrator, if the drinking, without even being touched by doubt.
something today, in what remains of Nesta.
Or all those times that things do not add up and you're under siege, but comes out with a chest out of the battle and takes away the ball away.
Arturo
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