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The end of forward thinkingFootball without strikers seems unthinkable, but according to Carlos Alberto Parreira, it's the future
June 8, 2008 12:45 AM
Five years ago, at the coaching conference he hosts in Rio deJaneiro, Carlos Alberto Parreira made a prediction that left the roomstunned. Discussing how tactics might evolve, the coach who had ledBrazil to victory in the 1994 World Cup, suggested that the formationof the future might be 4-6-0.
True, wingers had once seemed sacrosanct, only to be refined out ofexistence and then reinvented. Yes, playmakers were undergoing asimilar process of redevelopment. But centre-forwards? Could footballreally function with no centre-forward - without a recognised forwardline at all? The answer came in this season's Champions League final:yes, it could. Manchester United won the world's premier footballtournament with a team that featured no out-and-out striker.
Such radicalism remains rare, for while it may represent the highestform of the game, a system without forwards is hugely difficult to playeffectively. United scored six goals in their first eight games of lastseason and ended up forlornly using John O'Shea as a central striker intheir goalless opening-day draw with Reading, who finished with thesecond-worst defensive record in the league. It takes time foreffective fluidity to be achieved and that is why, given the limitednumber of training sessions available, no nation at Euro 2008 willfollow the no-striker route.
Even in international football, though, strikers are vanishing. Ofthe 16 teams in Austria and Switzerland, fewer than half are likely tostart with two forwards. The first international match, betweenScotland and England in 1872, involved 13 forwards; you will not haveseen that many in the Euros until the fourth or fifth day of thetournament. Not that a surfeit of strikers necessarily means plenty ofgoals: that first international finished 0-0.
Roma showed the way two seasons ago, fielding as their lone frontman, Francesco Totti, who had previously been seen as a classictrequartista, operating in the 'hole' between attack and midfield.Totti was not fixed. Operating as a focal point as, say, Didier Drogbawas for Chelsea, he held up the ball, drifted, and created space forhis team-mates to break into. Roma's 4-1-4-1 formation frequentlybecame 4-1-5-0. United beat Roma (minus Totti) 7-1 last year in aChampions League quarter-final, but Sir Alex Ferguson, having broadlyturned away from 4-4-2 after a humbling 3-2 defeat by Real Madrid in2000, had seen enough. Roma's was the model to follow.
For much of the season just finished, United deployed Wayne Rooneyas the nominal front man. He constantly foraged deep and perhaps hehas, as Ferguson suggested, been 'too unselfish'. But it was Rooney'smovement, and the intelligence of his interchanges with Carlos Tevez,that created much of the space for Cristiano Ronaldo, who profited with42 goals. United's system was, in effect, 4-2-4-0. At times,particularly in Europe, Ferguson fielded an extra holder in midfield,which usually meant Ronaldo central in the Totti role (4-3-3-0).
full article -->http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/06/08/the_end_of_forward_thinking.html
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Reply #2147 maxomeara's post
13 September & 14 March  |
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Reply #2145 neo-painkillerz's post
sebelum fly balik portugal hari tu, tok alex bagi one way ticket jer kat Ronaldo..
kalau dia nak balik, pandai2 la beli tiket sendiri nanti  |
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Reply #2148 maxomeara's post
Blame Totti and Roma  |
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Originally posted by thylord at 16-6-2008 05:26 PM 
sebelum fly balik portugal hari tu, tok alex bagi one way ticket jer kat Ronaldo..
kalau dia nak balik, pandai2 la beli tiket sendiri nanti
dah tu mak dier yang jomput la tu....
kemana la mak dia nak bawak nanti ekkk...
huhuhu
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Originally posted by interista at 16-6-2008 05:33 PM
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44663000/jpg/_44663824_gonzalez_casillasjpg_getty.jpg
aku nak ronaldo blah ganti dgn mamat ni...leh tgk awe ...
awek ni kerap datang ker...
huhuhu....syok ni...
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klu ronaldo blah gak masukkan mamat ni lagi sorang...
dgr gossip dari mastika kata kaka dah register anak dia kat satu nursery kat bandar manchester itu |
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Reply #2153 interista's post
sapa ni  |
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Originally posted by maxomeara at 16-6-2008 05:18 PM 
Fixtures - 2008-09:
August
16 Newcastle (H)
23 Portsmouth (A)
30 Fulham (H)
September
13 Liverpool (A)
20 Chelsea (A)
27 Bolton (H)
October
4 Blackburn (A)
18 West Brom (H)
25 Everto ...
va va va..kita dah jd mcm chelsea season lepas ker neh..main lawan big three semua away.. |
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Manchester United back in the hunt for Spurs striker Dimitar Berbatov:re:
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Manchester United are ready to resurrect their move for Tottenham抯 Dimitar Berbatov.
Spurs will demand |
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Originally posted by abangveron at 16-6-2008 05:05 PM 
ronaldo going nowhere..full stop!! ( yg ni The Sun)
real swoop ronaldo with world record fee (yg ni Marca)
Fan Real Madras bangang!! (yg ni Bolatalk cari.com) 
ko dah melampau nie...pesal ko nak attack fan real madrid? so ko maksudkan aku banggang laa nie...what the hell...!
tlg laaa..nie dah melampau..sampai ko nak kutuk fan2 nie..ader aku ckp fan manyoo banggang..! |
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Reply #2147 maxomeara's post
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awal2 sudah kena lawan fools ngan chelsea |
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Reply #2164 MzDiNa's post
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takpe ah, second half of the season tu yg penting duk kat umah tu |
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Premier League - No FIFA action over Ronaldo
FIFA have announced they will not take any formal action against Real Madrid over Manchester United's complaint about the Spanish club's pursuit of Cristiano Ronaldo.
But football's world governing body has issued a warning to Real of the consequences of inducing the Portuguese winger to breach his contract.
FIFA said in a statement that they had received a complaint from United last week but that no regulations had been broken by the Spanish club so far.
FIFA's statement read: "We can confirm that we received last week a formal complaint from Manchester United related to the player Cristiano Ronaldo and the club Real Madrid. From the documentation received, no breach of contract appears to have occurred yet.
"Therefore, in accordance with the applicable practice, no kind of formal procedure has been opened by FIFA regarding this matter.
"The Spanish Football Federation has been informed of the complaint lodged by the English club and been asked to remind its member club Real Madrid about the potential legal consequences of a breach of contract without just cause during the protected period and of a possible inducement to such a breach of contract, as established by the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players." |
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Originally posted by jpl_fan at 17-6-2008 02:08 AM
ko dah melampau nie...pesal ko nak attack fan real madrid? so ko maksudkan aku banggang laa nie...what the hell...!
tlg laaa..nie dah melampau..sampai ko nak kutuk fan2 nie..ader aku ckp fan ...
real madras bangang?? so? |
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Post time 16-6-2008 05:23 PM
