FOOTBALL TACTICS 101

Tacticians are the major influences in the round leather game, there are coaches, managers but the most important of them all are the tacticians.

  Certain techniques are brought to use in order to outplay your opponents and different football coaches have invented tactics that suits their style of play and its cool seeing new tactics every nine and then.

Let check out coaches and the tactics they invented it made popular.football 

1: Pep Guardiola: Tiki-Taka

This style of play was originally invented in the Netherlands by football legendary maestro, Johan Cruyff, in the 90s but, became super popular in the 2010s when Guardiola, a student Johan Cruyff exploit it at FC Barcelona, cementing their place at the echelon of football fraternity. It is a possession based football where you play a small and precise pas to your teammates mostly in the middle of the park and the opponent final third.

2: Jurgen Klopp: Gegen-Pressing

Germans are known to play a physical football, and this Jurgen Klopp leverage on this, where every player mark and leave very tight spaces for opposition to play, you press from the moment you lost ye ball in attack, making your midfield and defense also have more chance to create some link up play.

It is similar to High Press but its totally different, sharp wingers are needed to successfully execute this game plan.

3: Daniel Ogunmodede: IjaBall

Surprised right, Remo Stars have been terrorizing the Nigeria Professional Football League for years now, under the watch of this young tactician, he is underrated and no inebriate is giving him credit for this masterpiece of a tactics.

 IjaBall is a kind ignorant African football with a blend of Gegen Pressing, it comprises of Guardiola, Klopp and himself, its possession-based but leverage so much on individual techniques and brilliance. 

From the Yoruba word, Ija which means fight, one can relate to the meaning of IjaBall