Johan Cruyff was the father of tiki-taka football. He was also Barcelona's most successful coach ever, with 11 trophies, until his pupil Josep Guardiola surpassed that. Cruyff was the father of the ...
It is said that, at 33 years old, Alexander the Great cried salt tears when he realized there were no more worlds to conquer. Almost two millennia later, in 2009, another young man found himself ...
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Tiki-taka is dead. Long live tiki-taka. As a die-hard Real Madrid fan, I thought this year’s Champions League semifinal victory against Bayern Munich was one of the greatest I had ever seen. Its ...
Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona was the blueprint for Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors dynasty, which has delivered four ...
The essential logic behind Pep Guardiola's football philosophy remains beautiful in its simplicity: When your team has the ball, the other side doesn't. Without the ball, opponents cannot score, they ...
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The Morocco players fell back on defense and patiently watched as Spain kept passing the ball around midfield during their round of 16 match at the World Cup. Side to side, from one ...
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MADRID (AP) — Desperately trying to break through the Granada defense, Barcelona sent more than 50 crosses into the area in its search for a goal. There was none of Barcelona’s famous “tiki taka” — ...