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| Netherlands 1978 |
Total football is the most exciting football game. But understanding the Total Football was not as easy as we thought. Repeated reading various literature and articles of football, hard to find an explanation of why and how the Total Football arise. Only by understanding why and how, we can understand the essence of something.
All we know that this system first appeared in the Netherlands with the game based on the flexibility of a smooth exchange of position players. Position players will simply temporary that is constantly changing as needed. Therefore, all players are required for comfortable play in all positions.
The most satisfactory explanation is not even to the Dutch people, but a British writer is crazy about with the Dutch football, David Winner.Winner wrote a books if roughly translated title, "Brilliant Orange - the Dutch Football Genius and madness. "
The Dutch themselves amazed and say,''Ah, so that's the way we think about.''Many Dutch footballer seem like awakened to the figure inside the glass when they looked in the mirror .Winner did not justdiscuss football. According to him, Total Football was the persinification of Dutch citizen in understanding their life. Personification of Total Football is also in works of art, architecture, culture and even the social structure of Dutch society.
We all know the size of a football field more or less the same everywhere, so space of the game actually look the same. But Dutch people are also aware that space is an abstract problem in the head, large and small space you have depending on how to exploit it.
Total Football, said the book, is a matter of space and exploit it, not the other. Flexibility of players position, the movement of players, everything is the efforts to create the space to be exploited as much as possible. The basic principle is actually very simple. The size of a football field while the same size, but the mind can change depending on who is playing in it.
For example, once the Dutch player had the ball then they will make the pitch as widely as possible. Players move into every inch of space available. In the field the opponent's mind will seem so wide. Or, as opponents had the ball, space must be made as narrow as possible. The player closest to an opponent who controlled the ball is required to close it as quickly as possible, no matter whether or not the defender.Pressure must be done as quickly as possible even when the ball is still there in the heart of the opponent's defense. Opponent wedged in mind that the field is so narrow. So the opponent would think that the pitch is so narrow.
Enlarging or narrowing the space in the mind of the opponent is not an easy stuff. Must have the ability to search the room, have a compact movement and pass the ball accurately based on space available, whether curved, straight, bounce, etc.. In short, it takes an understanding that is not a simple room geometry.
The question is, why this has not occurred to anyone before? And why the Dutch people who can do it?. The answer, according to the book, derived from the natural condition of the Netherlands.The Dutch is crazy about the room or utilization, because of their natural condition. Fifty percent of the land is below sea level. While the rest are too narrow for the large number of people.
Continually this nation make the land reclamation to expand their land, and they set their lands issues very disciplined and strict. The existence of this nation depends on how they treat the land that they've got. Canal, ditch water, small dams and large, organized neatly divides every inch of land they have.
All we know that this system first appeared in the Netherlands with the game based on the flexibility of a smooth exchange of position players. Position players will simply temporary that is constantly changing as needed. Therefore, all players are required for comfortable play in all positions.
The most satisfactory explanation is not even to the Dutch people, but a British writer is crazy about with the Dutch football, David Winner.Winner wrote a books if roughly translated title, "Brilliant Orange - the Dutch Football Genius and madness. "
The Dutch themselves amazed and say,''Ah, so that's the way we think about.''Many Dutch footballer seem like awakened to the figure inside the glass when they looked in the mirror .Winner did not justdiscuss football. According to him, Total Football was the persinification of Dutch citizen in understanding their life. Personification of Total Football is also in works of art, architecture, culture and even the social structure of Dutch society.
We all know the size of a football field more or less the same everywhere, so space of the game actually look the same. But Dutch people are also aware that space is an abstract problem in the head, large and small space you have depending on how to exploit it.
Total Football, said the book, is a matter of space and exploit it, not the other. Flexibility of players position, the movement of players, everything is the efforts to create the space to be exploited as much as possible. The basic principle is actually very simple. The size of a football field while the same size, but the mind can change depending on who is playing in it.
For example, once the Dutch player had the ball then they will make the pitch as widely as possible. Players move into every inch of space available. In the field the opponent's mind will seem so wide. Or, as opponents had the ball, space must be made as narrow as possible. The player closest to an opponent who controlled the ball is required to close it as quickly as possible, no matter whether or not the defender.Pressure must be done as quickly as possible even when the ball is still there in the heart of the opponent's defense. Opponent wedged in mind that the field is so narrow. So the opponent would think that the pitch is so narrow.
Enlarging or narrowing the space in the mind of the opponent is not an easy stuff. Must have the ability to search the room, have a compact movement and pass the ball accurately based on space available, whether curved, straight, bounce, etc.. In short, it takes an understanding that is not a simple room geometry.
The question is, why this has not occurred to anyone before? And why the Dutch people who can do it?. The answer, according to the book, derived from the natural condition of the Netherlands.The Dutch is crazy about the room or utilization, because of their natural condition. Fifty percent of the land is below sea level. While the rest are too narrow for the large number of people.
Continually this nation make the land reclamation to expand their land, and they set their lands issues very disciplined and strict. The existence of this nation depends on how they treat the land that they've got. Canal, ditch water, small dams and large, organized neatly divides every inch of land they have.
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| Netherlands' canal |
Netherlands until now was the nation's most dense per square meter in size, and lands arrangement is the most orderly on earth. But no matter how they try, no matter how discipline, will never be enough land available.So what happened next?
The answer is in the imagination, in mind, the nature of abstraction. In addition to physically they try to expand their land area, they also create large space in their the fantasy. If you come to Europe, just try to campare the Dutch town planning with other countries. We will soon realize that the Netherlands is more narrow but the landscapes are so neat, so it felt very loose. Compared to any country in the world, urban planning in the Netherlands is the most compact in the world.
Architecture of the building, both old and modern, feels very innovative, with the angle that is often abnormal, unusual shape of the building, strange, but the impression is always the same-loose and airy. Because all abnormal curves are part of an effort to create additional space in the fantasy world.
Even the mind is also relaxed to matters of social norms and continues until now. We know the Dutch social norms are the most lax in Europe. Allowances which remain regulated. For example, just go to Vondell Park in Amsterdam, you can take cannabis or marijuana for free feeling, whereas in other countries you can't see it.
Neurotic spatial (crazy about spaces and its utilization) traces can be found easily in their art works and even in political life, but returned to the issue of football, football player mentality is exactly the same. When they go to the field, their minds are always playing around with the desire to create a space as loose as possible, and then exploit them.
The answer is in the imagination, in mind, the nature of abstraction. In addition to physically they try to expand their land area, they also create large space in their the fantasy. If you come to Europe, just try to campare the Dutch town planning with other countries. We will soon realize that the Netherlands is more narrow but the landscapes are so neat, so it felt very loose. Compared to any country in the world, urban planning in the Netherlands is the most compact in the world.
Architecture of the building, both old and modern, feels very innovative, with the angle that is often abnormal, unusual shape of the building, strange, but the impression is always the same-loose and airy. Because all abnormal curves are part of an effort to create additional space in the fantasy world.
Even the mind is also relaxed to matters of social norms and continues until now. We know the Dutch social norms are the most lax in Europe. Allowances which remain regulated. For example, just go to Vondell Park in Amsterdam, you can take cannabis or marijuana for free feeling, whereas in other countries you can't see it.
Neurotic spatial (crazy about spaces and its utilization) traces can be found easily in their art works and even in political life, but returned to the issue of football, football player mentality is exactly the same. When they go to the field, their minds are always playing around with the desire to create a space as loose as possible, and then exploit them.
When Rinus Michel brougt Ajax won the Champions Cup in 1971, Europe awakened to a new perfect system has been born. The system was born from the psychological of the Dutch whose crazy with the space and its utilization,and when Michel took Holland to the 1974 World Cup finals was born the term of Total Football.
Total Football actually borrowed its name from social movements initiated by the leading Dutch architect-philosopher in 1970's. A movement called Total. Understanding of urban life as a whole: manage urbanization, environmental, and energy utilization in a single totality. For the space available in the Netherlands can be exploited to the fullest. And football is an entertainment, part of that comprehensive approach . Totality, Its name: Total Football.
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