On Thursday, October 27, in the Europa League clash between Man Utd Y Sheriff Tiraspol, settled 3-0 in favor of the English, an unprecedented and certainly very striking action was seen, which can be seen on YouTube (bit.ly/3zCAc4E). the brazilian Anthony He received a ball forty meters from the goal, with his mark far away, about three meters away, and he began to circulate the circle, turning on himself. Really a beauty and a show of skill, but distant from the area and without defenses on top of it.
It was not an action to advance or face the opponent, simply a football treat, like starting to make little shells on one side of the field. With an aggravating circumstance: after the circus act he tried to take a deep pass and it went wrong, he threw it out. The feeling remained in the stadium and in the viewers of what is that? what is it for? is it soccer?
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All flourishes like, of course. However, there is a requirement attached to it: that it be useful for the maneuver and, above all, for the team, to progress on the field. Otherwise, it is as if the goalkeeper juggled three oranges in the air while the game is played. Someone may find it original and fun, however, the question is what does it have to do with the game? It bears no relationship.
Generally, Brazilian soccer players, due to their extraordinary command of the ball, are fond of this kind of boasting, but in other cultures they do not like them at all. These are the cases of Neymar, Vinicius, and especially this Antony, whose transfer cost United 100 million euros, and the public expects him to do more than just bows and little games. The 22-year-old left-hander from São Paulo has scored 3 goals in 11 games, he feels capable of any delicacy with the ball and he wants to prove it. A Erik ten Hag, the Dutch coach who had him at Ajax and signed him for such a fortune, did not like it very much, he made a face of displeasure on the bench.
An idol of Manchester United, hard against Antony
worse received Paul Scholes, that extraordinary midfielder of the red club, a total winner, today a commentator. He was harsh: “I don’t think that’s skill or entertainment, it’s just being a clown, it’s ridiculous.”
Scholes, who in his twenty seasons at Manchester won 29 titles, added: “He needs to remove that from his game and be simple, which he does well. That is bragging. He’s not entertaining anyone, he’s not beating his marker and he passes the ball anywhere. Just look at Erik ten Hag’s reaction, that sums it up. No one likes what he did. A farce.” Ten Hag must have thought: “Why did I bring you here!”
Without using Scholes’s terms, Antony’s first trait can be inferred from the action: he does not stand out for intelligence. Pelé, Maradona, Messi, the highest expressions of this activity, had a little more resources than him and they were never given for such an occurrence. They have taken to the top the talent at the service of the play, the team and the victory.
There are those who like these actions (many, as revealed by social networks). Which in this case was novel, nice, even luxurious. “They embellish the show,” they maintain. Even Neymar encouraged him via Instagram: “Keep it up, don’t change. Dare and have fun.” But it did not serve to clear the way. And then he missed the pass. There the debate is generated, which on Twitter was juicy. “If you don’t get an advantage on the next move, then it’s just juggling,” says Steve Rodney, a Colombian tweeter in the US. And here nothing was obtained because the pass was terribly bad. The same missed pass could have been given without that somersault.” In turn, Germán Campos, from Cali, looks at it from another angle: “Let him do that grace at the Centennial or at La Bombonera to see how it goes.” Franco, a Peruvian, believes that Antony “was in the wrong profession” (obviously alluding to the fact that his thing was the circus). And Ricardo Rozo, from Bogotá, elaborates: “Those of us who have ever kicked a ball know that, with practice, some fantasy is learned to do quite well. The difficult thing, the really difficult thing is to elude the rival, dribble past him, win one on one. That’s why Messi is the king.”
The Brazilian’s pirouette unleashed the eternal debate between playing nice and playing well. And, curiously, on Tuesday, after the triumph of his team – Burgos – over Las Palmas in the Spanish Second Division, coach Julián Calero gave a magnificent explanation between the beautiful and the useful: “Generally people confuse it. Playing pretty is playing well with the ball. Do a caper, a spout… But playing football well is something else”. And he expanded: “Football has four phases: attack, defense, what do you do when you lose the ball and what do you do when you steal it. If you do that well and the whole team does that, you play football well. If you add a lot of technical ability to this, you will be playing well and beautifully. I prefer my team to play football well. Which does not mean that we are not capable of teaming up, scoring goals, trying one-on-one, achieving numerical superiority, attacking the backs”. Then he emphasized listening to themselves: “We are a team that seeks all that, but we know what our conditions are and, above all, we adjust to them to try to get the most out of it.”
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Going to a finer analysis: what is playing well? We all know it: handling the ball well, passing accuracy, attacking and defending effectively, having order and, above all, overall harmony. Manuel Pellegrini, successful Chilean coach, and Marcelo Gallardo summarize playing well in two key factors: control and passing. If a team achieves this goal, it is difficult for them to lose, because they dominate the game. Chiche Sosa, an Argentine coach from past decades, was once asked what it was to play well: “Passing the ball between teammates, he answered.” When that happens,
a team is doing well.
However, there are a dozen associated values, one of them fundamental: playing forward, unbalancing, because, naturally, every sport has an objective. The goal of soccer is to score more goals than the opponent. Garrincha also did juggling and illusionism, although everything to win, for the benefit of the group.
last tango…
Jorge Barraza
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