People said the “tiki-taka” brand of football under Pep Guardiola can only be played with the type of players that Barcelona possessed such like Messi, Xavi and Inesta but after Guardiola took charge of Bayern Munich, he is able to mould them into playing this brand of football even with different group of players. This shows that how influential a coach can have on a team with their ideas, philosophy and tactics. There is a saying “tactics and players come hand in hand”. A team can have 11 world class players on the field but without the right tactics from the coach, it still won’t able to yield the desirable results on the pitch. This explained why United won the league by 11 points last season under Alex Ferguson but now they are struggling at 7th place under Moyes even with the same group of players.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:02:26 +0000