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The Barcelona Inheritance

The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola

by Jonathan Wilson
Charlie Anson
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From Cruyff's "Total Football" to the epic rivalry between Guardiola and Mourinho, a gripping chronicle of the rise and fall of Barcelona's dominance in world soccer.
Barcelona's style of play — pressing and possessing — is the single biggest influence on modern soccer. In The Barcelona Inheritance, Jonathan Wilson reveals how and why this came to pass, offering a deep analysis of the evolution of soccer tactics and style.
In the late 1990s, Johan Cruyff's Dream Team was disintegrating and the revolutionary manager had departed, but his style gave birth to a new generation of thinkers, including Pep Guardiola and Joséourinho. Today, their teams are first and second in the Premier League, marking the latest installment in a rivalry that can be traced back twenty-five years.
The Barcelona Inheritance is a book about the tactics, the personalities, the friendships, and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling-out that continue to shape the game today.

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    November 6, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781549142086
      • File size: 307334 KB
      • Duration: 10:40:16

  • Languages

    • English

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    • Booklist

      November 1, 2018
      Few soccer teams in the modern era have amassed such an astonishing collection of on-field talent as Spain's FC Barcelona, and possibly no team has had more influence in changing the way today's game is played. Here, the prolific and authoritative Wilson connects the dots between the total football of 1970s club team Ajax and the Dutch national side; the revolutionary genius of Dutch icon Johan Cruyff; and the astonishing collection of managerial talent that flowed through Barcelona to other top European clubs, most notably Cruyff, Pep Guardiola, Jos� Mourinho, and Louis van Gaal. Offering a delightful sense of the managers' personalities and invoking even Miltonic imagery in depicting the Guardiola-Mourinho rivalry (Mourinho is the raging, fallen angel, natch), Wilson offers broad historical perspective to bolster his claim that For a long time the best Dutch football has been played in Spain. As with his remarkable history of soccer tactics, Inverting the Pyramid? (2013), this latest will appeal primarily to wonky fans who see the game behind the game?but for them, it's a winner.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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