ma nije prika bila nikakva analiza, samo 2-3 rečenice, negdi u nekom španjolskom portalu, jbg...al evo ispod malo bielse, da se iskupim...
tekst pepa guardiole za el pais, tamo još od 2007. godine, prije nego je posta trener.
svakako čitat, izvanredan tekst:
Feel it
by Pep Guardiola
In yesterday’s editorial in La Vanguardia, actress
Norma Aleandro said that many people are lucky and are not aware of it.
I believe that those of us who love Barça (a lot) and football (much
more) got lucky long ago. And the best part of all is that we are aware
of it—from the hand of a Dutchman and a Catalan.
I’m sorry, Norma.
It
appears, according to what they say, that the Dream Team returned in
Zaragoza, but I believe that the Dream Team has never left.
“I
am drawn to victory and I realize that the road that gets you the
closest to it is leadership. Never think about a game without playing on
the opponent’s home turf.”
A wonderful saying by Marcelo Bielsa
that Barcelona made its own for over a decade. In Barcelona it is
understood that you can win a thousand ways. All are
valid. All work. There’s little more to say. But in Barcelona it is also
understood that you can never win and repeat in a way that does not
feel right to you—that does not feel right to the directors,
coaches, players, friends of the press and the people who go every week
to see them.
I think the current Barça players feel this. They
feel it because many of them saw their closest predecessors do it. They
feel it because you have seen them doing it and winning (much reinforces
the belief to win) and since they know how they did it, they are able
to do it again. If they did not genuinely feel it, they would win. But
one day, they would not be able to keep it up. You cannot go on playing
with a four-man defensive line, then to play with a line of three, and I
say three, not five, and do it with consistency. And do it well. And
win and reach the Copa del Rey semifinals.
I think, and maybe I’m
wrong, but what I see is: they like to organize themselves according to
the ball—that they attack and defend with the ball and understand that
it is unacceptable that the ball is there and we are here. The players
feel that, instead of moving towards the ball, the ball will reach them
where they are. They feel that, in order for the attackers to succeed
and appear in the newspapers, [they] need a good ball from the midfield
and they, to do so, need a good ball from their defenders. I will pass
it on to you and you pass it to them. Ronaldinho knows that he is better
with Eto’o and Eto’o knows he is better with Ronaldinho. They have
their aspects, but are better together than alone. They insist on
knowing where the free man is at every moment, and know that it is
better if that man is Iniesta rather than a winger. They know that Xavi
and Iniesta are compatible. And why wouldn’t they be, dammit? They
understand, as all good collectives should, that when you start on the
right, it is better to finish on the left end and a back pass does not
indicate fear, but the beginning of another, better play. They feel that
the time will come and that possession itself is nothing, but rather a
means to reach the goal. That it is better that the ball reach the
extreme end of the pitch via the center rather than from up the sides.
And if they play the three little ones (Xavi-Iniesta-Deco) like in
Zaragoza, the homegrown players must deal with the control and
preparation of the plays, and Deco with the completion. They feel that
if we play with three in midfield, three will need the support of
Oleguer and Puyol. And they also know they have the best player in the
world, or nearly so, and the best striker in the world, or nearly so,
and if it comes to knowing how to play football, not decide games, not
playing to make plays, I repeat, to know playing football, we have the
two best midfielders in the world. But all of these better’s or
almost’s, in another setting would be nothing more than better’s and
almost’s. They know. Or they feel it.
Or that’s what I believe.
And
with all this, sometimes, occasionally, they also lose. They lose
through lack of will power, by not getting their shirt sweaty enough. Or
because they have recently eaten too much and too well, and they have
lost their appetite. Yes, they also lose for these reasons, like all
teams around the world. But they also lose because sometimes, Xavi or
Iniesta or Deco will steal the ball from the midfielders when perhaps
they should not. Or because the ball that starts on the right is on
track to finish on the right. Or because the third man is seldom used.
Or because Ronaldinho has to receive more passes from Marquez and fewer
from Sylvinho … Or because the attack-defense transition, to have it or
not have it, was seen and unseen, and now maybe the best is slower. Or
because Eto’o is not there anymore. Or I do not know why they lose! But
they lose. But they lose not only by not sweating enough, not by not
running more and more. They lose for other reasons they are aware of.
Some know because they were born here and have thus been raised, others
because they have no other remedy but to learn.
Tomorrow Barça
will lose. Or after tomorrow. We will all be aware of it. But no one can
argue that Barça has been a recognizable team for a long time. Unique.
And they do not know how much I like it.
Hours before the big game against Zaragoza, Iniesta sent a message to my brother. My brother forwarded it. He said: “The Dream Team is back. Game on.” Do they or do they not feel how they must play this wonderful profession that is playing football?
Are there still any who doubt how they will play the game against the Beatles?
Will they pass? Will they go home? Do not doubt the words of Bielsa.
[uredio irilov - 01. rujna 2011. u 16:53]
